Mike Cooke: Thunder Head and Rainbow Face

The Blue Oyster Gallery's last exhibition for 2008 will be a solo show
of the work by Dunedin artist, Mike Cooke, titled "Thunder Head and
Rainbow Face".

Cooke's large bold acrylic works have a film strip quality, the
influences are very obviously modern visual culture (especially Japanese manga) skateboard graphics, Michel Gondry's music videos and America's west coast graffiti, but Cooke is very determined that they are mere triggers for the viewers interpretation.

"The pictures I paint portray characters in a sparse and surreal world" Cooke says.

Exhibition opening 18th November at 5.30pm.