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Alan Gouk    (British, 1939)

 Alan Gouk - Hoary Footman (Paintings) h: 201 x w: 262 cm / h: 79.1 x w: 103.1 in
Alan Gouk
Hoary Footman 1990-1997
 
 Alan Gouk - Indian Moon Moth (Paintings) h: 195 x w: 86 cm / h: 76.8 x w: 33.9 in
Alan Gouk
Indian Moon Moth 1996
 
 Alan Gouk - Titanium Shaded Broad Bar (Paintings) h: 51 x w: 92 cm / h: 20.1 x w: 36.2 in
Alan Gouk
Titanium Shaded Broad Bar 1999
 

Biography
1939 Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1948 - 1956 Attended Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow
1957 - 1959 Studied architecture part-time at Glasgow School of Art
1959 - 1960 Architecture course at Regent Street Polytechnic, London
1961 Architectural draughtsman with Barron and Smith, Hampstead
1962 Organised Festival Fringe exhibition of paintings
1961 - 1964 Edinburgh University, studied psychology and philosophy
1966 Exhibition Officer to Venice Biennale
1967 Prize-winner John Moores' Exhibition, Liverpool
2002 Prize-winner John Moores' Exhibition, Liverpool

Exhibitions
2008 Poussin Review 2008: Form and Space, Poussin Gallery, London
2008 Ten Great Works from the Sixties and Seventies, Poussin Gallery, London
2007 Alan Gouk: The Ulysses Series, Poussin Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Poussin Review 2006: Recent British Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Poussin Gallery, London
2005 Mainstream Abstract Painting from the Seventies, Poussin Gallery, London
2005 Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2004 Paintings for Tyringham Hall, Tyringham Hall, Buckinghamshire
2003 Small is Beautiful XXI: War and Peace, Flowers Central, London
2002 East Two, Flowers East, London
2002 Small is Beautiful XX: Voyage, Flowers East, London
2001 Alan Gouk: New Paintings, Flowers East at London Fields, London
2001 British Abstract Painting, Flowers East, London
2001 Selections from Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2001 Small is Beautiful XIX: Still Life, Flowers East, London
2001 British Abstract Painting 2001 – Flowers East, London
2000 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East
1999 Small is Beautiful Part I – Abstract, Flowers West
Ten New Abstract Paintings, London Fields
1998 Small is Beautiful Part XVI ‘Music’, London Fields
Angela Flowers Gallery at Riverside Studios
1997 Recent Paintings, Flowers West
Recent Paintings, London Fields
New Abstract Paintings, Riverside Studios, London
1996 British Abstract Art Part III, Works on Paper, London Fields
1995 British Abstract Art, Part I : Paintings, Flowers East, London
‘The St Cyrus Series’, Flowers East, London
1994 One-man show, East West Gallery, London
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East and Flowers East at London Fields, London
Summer Show, Anna Bornholt Associates, London
1993 One-man show, 106 Boundary Road, London
The Angus Annual, The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
British Painterly Abstraction, 'New Displays', Tate Gallery, London
1992 'Summer Seen', William Jackson Gallery, London
1990 Scottish Art since 1900, Barbican Gallery, London
1988 One-man Show, Riverside Foyer Exhibition, London
The Caro Collection at Wolfson College, Oxford
'Fuse' Gallery Mixed Summer Show
1977 Four Abstract Painters, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1972 Hayward Gallery, with Gillian Ayres and John Golding
1971 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, with Geoff Rigden, Basil Beattie and John McLean
1970 Nine Painters, Hayward Gallery, London
1968 Preview - London, Camden Arts Centre
1967 John Moore's Exhibition, Liverpool (prizewinner)

Literature
1994 Pete Hoida's Paintings, Introductory Essay, The Living Room, Greenwich, January 1994
David Lillington, Review of East West Show, Time Out, 13 April
1990 Jane Norrie, Review of Sandra Higgins Exhibition, Arts Review, 15 June 1990
1989 Keith Hartley, 'Scottish Art Since 1900' Exhibition Catalogue, Lund Humphries 1989
1988 Hans Hofmann Late Works at the Tate Gallery, 'Fuse' Magazine, No.1, 1988
Tim Scott's New Sculpture, Catalogue Essay, Kunstverein Braunschweig and German Tour Escultura Nueva, Reino Unida, Catalogue Introduction, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid 1988
1987 'Mind's Eye' - Review of Richard Wolheim's 'Painting as an Art', The Guardian, 31 December 1987
1972 Caroline Tisdall, 'Big Paintings', The Guardian, January 1972
Nige Gosling, 'At Arms Length', The Observer, January 1972
1971 Caroline Tisdall, 'Action Men', The Guardian, March 1971
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