Maurice Cockrill

Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, Cockrill studied painting at Wrexham School of Art before teaching at Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. He was a central figure in Liverpool’s artistic life, funded by the Arts Council and regularly exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery, before his departure for London in 1982. He was signed to, and his work shown at, Bernard Jacobson Gallery in many solo exhibitions. He was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 1995 and was elected RA in 1999. Maurice Cockrill had his first solo exhibition at Archeus Fine Art in September 2002. He was on the Hanging Committee for the Royal Academy's 2001, 2002 and 2004 Summer Exhibitions, before being elected the Keeper of the Royal Academy of... Show moreArts and Head of the Royal Academy Schools. In 2006 he became President of the Royal Cambrian Academy Professor of Contemporary Fine Art in Liverpool John Moores University. Cockrill's work is held in the following collections: British Museum Arts Council of Great Britain Welsh Arts Council Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Ulster Museum, Belfast Hertfordshire Education Committee The Leicester Collection London Borough of Camden University of Liverpool Liverpool Daily Post Alexander Howden Group Borough of Milton Keynes John Moores D.G. Bank Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport Granada Television Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf Contemporary Arts Society Deutsche Bank Unilever Centro Cultural Arte Contempraneo, Polanco, Mexico Riggs Bank AG London Royal Academy, London Royal Society of Medicine, Pathology Division (commission)