Oliver Cook | Soft Divide
Self-taught, Cook’s practice has developed through sustained engagement with materials, arriving at a focused exploration of stone. Alabaster, with its delicate translucency, allows light to enter and move within the form, revealing internal structure and subtle variations that shift throughout the day. Each work is conceived with an awareness of its environment, responding to changing conditions of light and space. His forms balance geometric clarity with organic movement. Edges soften, surfaces undulate, and volumes appear to expand and contract, suggesting a quiet sense of motion held within stillness.
Working primarily in alabaster, Cook creates vessels and sculptural objects that are at once solid and atmospheric, shaped as much by light as by the hand. In Cook’s third solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery, Soft Divide also introduces a new body of work in bronze.
Aperture Vase #4 was poured on site at the Henry Moore Studio & Gardens in Hertfordshire during a bronze casting demonstration, by foundry Coles Castings and artist Jasmine Bradbury, showing the methods that would have been used to create some of Moore’s most famous works. – Oliver Cook
- Oliver Cook, Two Panes, 2026, Spanish white translucent alabaster, Carrara marble base, H83 x D20 cm
- Oliver Cook, Aperture Vase #3, 2026, Spanish white translucent alabaster, H26 x D22
- Oliver Cook, Pierced Landscape, 2026, Spanish white translucent alabaster, H23 x W32 x D8 cm