We are eagerly anticipating Jack Cocker’s upcoming November solo, his third at the gallery. Painted over the past year, the five monumental canvases explore ideas such as genuineness, connection, spirit, and memory. The landscapes and figures that he chooses to paint spark a prolonged curiosity demanding that they be explored through painting. Originating from a fragment of an image like a figure or a landmark, a memory or a story that he has heard, his subjects are familiar, usually with a personal connection or an autobiographical undertone.

While the image and its backstory remain important to him, what captures his interest in the first place is the process of negotiating the image with paint and his imagination in creating a picture that continues to make painting challenging and deeply rewarding for him. “I don’t want my paintings to be observational or based in realism – they should exist as paintings, first and foremost”.

Exhibition dates: November 8, 2025 - November 29, 2025
Gallery Location: 157 Carling Street, London ON N6A 1H5, Canada (Michael Gibson Gallery)
Exhibition Website: https://www.gibsongallery.com/exhibitions/jack-cocker-new-paintings/