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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.

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

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Related stub person groups
  • Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic (associate of)
  • Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW (associate of)
Related works
  • Pan No.3 (rotation isn't movement) (creator of)
  • Imaginery Object 1 (creator of)
  • Static No. 9 (a small section of something larger) (creator of)
Related collections
  • Corporate and private collections (collected in)
  • Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
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)
Related events
  • A Precipitation in Time (exhibited at)
  • Under the Radar (exhibited at)
  • Bitmap: International Digital Photo Project (exhibited at)
  • Lovebytes 2006: Environments (exhibited at)
  • World Without End (exhibited at)
  • 2 videos & 2 devices (exhibited at)
  • Daniel Crooks: A small selection of something larger (exhibited at)
  • The Millenium Dialogue - In The Line of Flight (exhibited at)
  • Daniel Crooks: Train No.1 (exhibited at)
  • I thought I knew but I was wrong: New Video Art from Australia (exhibited at)
  • (Not) Open Studios (exhibited at)
  • oZone: Survey of Australian digital media art (exhibited at)
  • Future Perfect (exhibited at)
  • displacement (exhibited at)
  • Location Location (exhibited at)
  • Australian Digital Icons (exhibited at)
  • Time Slice (exhibited at)
  • LIGHT TIME MOTION (exhibited at)
  • Digital Projections (exhibited at)
  • distance:control (exhibited at)
  • Screensound (exhibited at)