Remembering Glenn R Cooke 1946 – 2025


John Wade

Australiana, Vol 47 no 2, May 2025

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Glenn R Cooke, then Research Curator, Queensland Heritage, at the Queensland Art Gallery, leading a tour through the exhibition Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism, QAG, October 2010. Photograph: Natasha Harth, image courtesy QAGOMA. Glenn has paused in front of Vida Lahey’s Art and Nature (1934), with its vivid orange flowers.

Frequent contributor to Australiana and former curator at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Glenn R Cooke, died in January. Australiana editor John Wade encapsulates Glenn’s immense influence, drawing on the orations at his memorial in Brisbane organised by Dr Judith McKay. While Glenn was recognised for his collecting and his generosity, he was admired most for his mentoring and inspiring dozens of early career curators and collectors.

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