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Biography
Howie Cooke
artist
Howie Cooke is a 1950's child with an island aloha spirit, a defender of Whales, an activist, a World traveller though above all, he is an artist living an artists life near Byron Bay Northern NSW.
Howie Cooke helped ignite the passion within David Rastovich to take his celebrity guise onto the World stage and make a stand against the meaningless slaughter of cetacean creatures, whales and dolphins, together they are defenders of the Ocean inhabitants through their surfersforcetaceans organistaion.
Howie Cooke is a regular at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meetings, spreading the word on the truth and demanding action be taken to protect the many Whale species being exploited by fishing nations around the World. Howie is good friends with Sea Shepherd legend Paul Watson a kindred spirit more at home working for the Ocean than working for any human beings. It goes deeper than that, Howies passion for the Ocean spans decades, here is a glimpse of his art.
"My art is my love, my frustration, my lifeline. I am inspired by my friends, the ocean, women, whales and dolphins, wilderness, human goodness and divine futures." Howie Cooke
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The Artwork of Howie Cooke
On this page is a cross section of Howie Cooke's art, some of which is still available as signed prints and some as original works. Howie Cookes brings a sense of familiarity garnered from a prolific artist who has created across decades and is still creating in many genres; paint, mosaic, sculptures, tattoo art, etchings and traditional polynesian methods.
Original works are available, commission work available, signed prints available. To contact Howie Cookes agent email AFUNDANCE48@GMAIL.COM or drop us a line through the contact page if you have some simple questions.
Howie Cooke Painting for Komune Art Project from Karlee Mackie on Vimeo.
Born in New Zealand, Howie became an underground teenage cartoonist and artist in the early 70s. He started exhibiting big oil paintings of whales in the mid-70s and held his first solo shows ‘the Blue Goat’ in Tonga 1979 and ‘of Whales and Women’ in Auckland 1980. Actively involved with Project Jonah NZ, Howie illustrated a kids educational book ‘Welcome the Whales’ in 1978. ● Tahiti 1981-83: Sailed to Bora-Bora with a roll of canvas and bag of oil paint. Exhibitions include ‘Six Peintures de Moorea’ and ‘Pourquoi pas?’. Sailed to Cook Islands for 4 months returning to Tahiti to be a set painter on ‘the Bounty’ film production for 5 months. Held 2 large solo shows ‘Still-life for sailors’ and ‘the Pink Hat is back’ on return (crewing on the Bounty) to NZ Member of VAANA (Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms) ● New Caledonia 1984: Photo-journalist and painting in midst of a civil war. ● Bali 1985: More tropical canvases. ● Australia 1985-89: Sydney life as painter, printmaker, musician and life model culminates through many exhibitions in solo show ‘In the Afterglow’ prior to leaving to see the Gauguin retrospective in Paris. ● Thailand 1989: More tropical canvases. ● Europe 1989-91: Travelling mostly in France Spain and Portugal and living and exhibiting in London, notably solo shows ‘Partpartypartart” and ‘Wales dolphins and Chaos’ ● Tahiti 1991: New set of paintings and exhibition. ● Curated into ‘Pacific Connections’ at Rotorua art gallery NZ on way back to Australia. Set up studio at Bondi Beach. Member of the ‘Infamous Four’ group of painters. Howie formed and directed ‘Ocean-S’ to focus on local marine conservation issues and initiate the highly successful ‘Get your Butts off our Beaches’ and ‘Blue Groper State Fish NSW’ campaigns. Involved in dozens of group shows and held several solos, notably ‘to the Whales born’ in 1993 also launching his first book of the same name. Howie moved to the Northern Rivers region of Australia after a solo exhibition ‘when Angels swim and Whales fly’, working as a freelance art director for IFAW developing art related strategies – notably murals, the South Pacific Whale sanctuary banner and the Whale Tipi - for IWC meetings and other whale and marine conservation events. Co-founder of Surfers for Cetaceans (S4C) which aims to mobilise surfers and ocean crew worldwide against the harassment, capture and killing of cetaceans and other marine mammals, and for coastal and marine conservation. S4C initiated the Humpback Icon Project, VisualPetition.com and the Taiji Surfers Ceremony for dolphins in Japan. Over 20 solo exhibitions, about 100 group exhibitions, over 10 art auctions, various art awards and represented in private and public collections worldwide.
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Selected Work
