{"id":385816,"date":"2026-01-23T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:36:07","slug":"exhibition-celebrates-beryl-cook-and-her-love-for-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385816\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition celebrates Beryl Cook and her love for Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Interviewed in a pub for the BBC South West documentary Union Street in 1985, Cook said: &#8220;To be able to paint, I really need to see everything that&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I love all the groups of girls all coming down together and the fellas all in groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laughing, beer in hand, she admitted; &#8220;I&#8217;d love a flat over Kentucky Fried Chicken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just so we could sit in the window at night and watch everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Box describes Cook as a &#8220;cultural chronicler&#8221; who painted marginalised people and recorded their lives with joy, kindness and reverence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terah Walkup, who curated the exhibition, said: &#8220;She did it with genuine affection, technical mastery and unflinching honesty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her work from the 1970s to 2000s captures working-class joy, body positivity, and queer culture with a sophistication that&#8217;s only now being fully recognised.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interviewed in a pub for the BBC South West documentary Union Street in 1985, Cook said: &#8220;To be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}