Cook works with pre-manufactured, light reflective materials - mirror, wood stain, gloss paint, PVC and Perspex - which lie slick upon the surface of large, stocky, roughly-built wooden constructions.For Cook these seductively lustrous surfaces suggest the glamour of gay social spaces, such as bars and clubs, and their habitués...and the underbelly of that scene with its associations of sexual suggestion and excess. His sculptures embody the urge for temporary celebration - the fleeting opportunity to adopt bacchanalian, carnivalesque behaviour.
Fraser Cook lives and works in Bristol.
