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Gordon Crook: A Life of Art
Film (Excerpts) – 2010
Interspersed throughout are pieces of autobiographical narration, often recent poems from a yet-to-be-completed memoir project ... a welcome (re)introduction to an artist who, while still making and exhibiting work, doesn’t have the profile he once did.– Andy Palmer, reviewing the film on website Lumiere, 25 July 2010
He lived to create. Every single element of his life was about beauty and creativity. He was obviously a tricky person to deal with. He wanted everything to be done perfectly. The reality is the biggest names in the art world weren't particularly easy to deal with...– Art dealer James Blackie on Gordon Crook, The Dominion Post, 7 May 2013, page A11
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