About Maryrose Crook
Maryrose Crook was a New Zealand musician.
Maryrose Crook (née Wilkinson) is a musician and artist from New Zealand.
Crook and her husband, Brian, formed the band The Renderers in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1989. The band has released music with New Zealand company Flying Nun Records and American labels Merge, Siltbreeze and Drag City, and have toured New Zealand twice as the backing band for American alt-folk star Bonnie Prince Billy. She is known for creating large-scale canvases depicting surreal, other-worldly landscapes.
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake destroyed Crook's home in Diamond Harbour and she and her family moved to the United States the following year.
Recognition Crook won the 2003 William Hodges Fellowship, Merit Awards in the 2005 Waikato Art Award and the 2006 Wallace Development Award.
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