Daniel Crooks b. 1973

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer)
Practising across a range of media including digital video, photography and installation, New Zealand born Daniel Crooks's complex and beautiful digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.
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Practising across a range of media including digital video, photography and installation, Daniel Crooks’s complex and beautiful time structures reveal a sensibility seemingly at odds with the ordinariness of the subject matter. His digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.

A graduate of the Auckland Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television, Crooks received an Australia Council Fellowship in 1997 to research motion control at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His reputation grew rapidly, with representation in important group exhibitions in Australia (including 'Primavera 2003’ at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art) and in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia.

Crooks has held solo exhibitions at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Level 2 Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (both 2005); and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2002). He was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2004-05) and at the Australia Council Studio, London, UK (2005). His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival.

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Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011

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Related recognitions
  • 2005 : London Studio Residency, Australia Council Visual Arts and Craft Board (received)
  • New Visions Commission, Experimenta (received)
  • 2004/2005 : Guest Resident, Rijkasakdemie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (received)
  • Conference and Workshop Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology (received)
  • Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, The Ian Potter Foundation (received)
  • International and Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Victoria (received)
  • Bovis Lend Lease, mural print for new office headquarters (received)
  • Research and Development Grant, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • 2002 : Public Imaging Commission, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Creative Development Grant, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • RMIT New Media Arts Residency, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • International Award for Video Art (received)
  • Dendy Australian Short Film Award, Sydney International Film Festival (received)
  • New Zealand Short Film Award for Best Animation, New Zealand Short Film and Video Festival (received)
  • City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (received)
  • Film Victoria Prize for Most Daring and Innovative Production (received)
  • 2005 : London Studio Residency, Australia Council Visual Arts and Craft Board (received)
  • New Visions Commission, Experimenta (received)
  • 2004/2005 : Guest Resident, Rijkasakdemie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (received)
  • Conference and Workshop Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology (received)
  • Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, The Ian Potter Foundation (received)
  • International and Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Victoria (received)
  • Bovis Lend Lease, mural print for new office headquarters (received)
  • Research and Development Grant, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • 2002 : Public Imaging Commission, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Creative Development Grant, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • RMIT New Media Arts Residency, Australia Council New Media Arts Board (received)
  • International Award for Video Art (received)
  • Dendy Australian Short Film Award, Sydney International Film Festival (received)
  • New Zealand Short Film Award for Best Animation, New Zealand Short Film and Video Festival (received)
  • City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (received)
  • Film Victoria Prize for Most Daring and Innovative Production (received)