Vale Glenn R Cooke | Artist, Curator, Academic, Author, Gardener and (a totally fabulous) Cook

A time remembered : art in Brisbane 1950 to 1975 / Glenn R. Cooke
So many enlightening conversations with Glenn over the past four decades. I met Glenn while studying art history at the University of Queensland in the 1985-1989 time frame.
Glenn R Cooke was well-known and much-loved as an art historian, scholar, curator and avid collector. Glenn was a strong advocate for artist-run spaces, cultural heritage projects, and archiving independent efforts by Brisbane artists.
https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/stories/the-jon-molvig-project-database
From 1981 to 2012 he was employed by the Queensland Art Gallery as an art researcher and curator. In this period he also curated exhibitions for other galleries and undertook independent research.
https://manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au/index.php/cooke-glenn-r
More recently Glenn played a pivital role helping me to facilitate a commemoration about the important longitudiunal contribution made by academic, educator, artist-run space advocate, and artist Urszula Szulakowska.
https://www.ima.org.au/ima-events/urszula-szulakowska-and-the-brisbane-art-scene-in-the-1980s/
As an author, Glenn inspires my onging artist archiving work about artist-run culture and heritage. His seminal text: a time remembered : art in Brisbane 1950 to 1975 / Glenn R. Cooke, was an essential prequel to Urszula’s important work: Experimental Art in Queensland 1975 – 1995. Brisbane: Queensland Studies Centre, Faculty of Arts, 1998.
Glenn’s critical perspectives on underrecognised artists and the conservativism of Queensland Art Gallery will endure to motivate researchers, artists and others into perpetuity.
Paul Andrew
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/918627
6 August 2022 – 26 January 2023
slq Gallery, level 2
#slqTeaTowels
Queensland to a T dishes the dirt on the qualities that made tea towels desirable Queenslandiana and how we see them now. Featuring the Glenn R. Cooke Souvenir Textile Collection, this is a unique look into Queensland’s culture and identity.
So, soak up history and all things nostalgic and memorable while you reminisce, remember and see what comes out in the wash.