Alex Crocker

limited edition print run of 20, lino print with indian ink on 80gsm Kahadi paper, unframed

Printed on the occasion of the exhibition End Cottage, TACO!, 2020

Alex Crocker (b.1981, Truro, UK) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2009 and the University of Brighton in 2005. He completed a residency at the De Ateliers institute in Amsterdam between 2014–16.

Crocker creates paintings that are drawn from his immediate surroundings. His daily walks, domestic routines and family life are recorded in simple drawings of birds, bricks, worms, cars, bikes, trees, flowers, cats, people, clouds and windows. These objects are then transformed and distilled, using the material of paint, to create images that are still recognisable but sit at the edge of abstraction.

Recent exhibitions include, Block-ck-ck, with Anna Brass, Outpost Studios Project Space, Norwich (2021); End Cottage, Taco!, London (2020); How Small a Thought, 2 Maxwell House, Margate (2019); Trout Steel, The Horse Hospital, London (2018); Earth Worm, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (2017); The Eyes Have It, 53 Beck Road, London (2016); and Wyrd, Ana Cristea, New York (2015).