| Following
his education at Madras College, St Andrews, Jack
Morrocco started his art college study in Dundee
shortly after his 17th birthday (the youngest in his
academic year). He was selected to study at
Hospitalfield House, Arbroath during the summer of
1973 where the visiting tutor was the renowned pop
artist Peter Blake. He was awarded a post graduate
year of study (highly commended) in 1975 as well as
the Farquhar Reid Travelling Scholarship which was
spent in Paris and Florence. After College he worked for 5
years as a free-lance illustrator whilst also
painting and exhibiting. As a result of the volume
of illustration and graphic design work he was being
asked to undertake, he set up an advertising,
marketing and design consultancy in Dundee in 1980
which he ran until 1996, returning to painting full
time in 1997.
Perhaps more than his
immediate contemporaries Jack seems to have embraced
the extraordinary variety of inspiration inherent
within Scotland, and whilst remaining true to a
proud lineage, has developed a powerful and
effective distillation of his own encompassing still
life, figurative and landscape work. Whilst
technique and application of paint may vary with
subject, each work shares the mature handling and
vibrant, sensuous palette so associated with the
artist.
Jack now works from his
studios in Fife and the South of France.
Jack Morrocco - Born Edinburgh
1953.
Studied at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art 1970-1974 and Post
Graduate year 1975, Also studied at Hospitalfield
House, Arbroath under Peter Blake, summer 1973. |
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Exhibitions include: |
Group
Exhibitions include: |
| Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh |
Royal Scottish Academy |
| Main Fine Art, Glasgow |
Royal Glasgow Institute of
Fine Art |
| Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh |
Compass Gallery, Glasgow |
| Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen |
Richmond Hill Gallery, London |
| Leith Gallery, Edinburgh |
Ainscough Gallery, London |
| Richmond Hill Gallery, London
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Thompson's Galleries, London,
Aldeburgh, and Stow |
| Thompsons Gallery, London |
Contemporary Fine Art
Gallery, Eton |
| Eduardo Alessandro Gallery,
Dundee |
Richard Hagen Galleries,
Broadway |
| Solo Gallery, Edinburgh |
John Noott Galleries,
Broadway |
| Henshelwood Gallery,
Newcastle |
Manorhouse Gallery, Chipping
Norton |
| Broadway Modem, Cotswolds |
Henshelwood Gallery,
Newcastle |
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Walker Galleries, Harrogate
and Manchester |
| 6 Scottish Colourists, St
Andrews |
| Eduardo Alessandro Gallery,
Dundee |
| Fraser Gallery, Dundee |
| Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow |
| Falle Fine Art, St Hellier,
Jersey |
| Art Expo, New York |
| Forbes Gallery, New York |
| Galerie Azur, St Paul de
Vence, France |
| Meridian Art, Agen, France |
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| The Artist in his Studio |
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