Alan Gouk (British, born )

Timeline

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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