Maryrose Crook

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Maryrose Crook (born Maryrose Wilkinson) is a New Zealand musician and painter. She and her husband, Brian, formed the Christchurch band The Renderers in 1989. The band released music with Flying Nun Records in New Zealand and US labels Merge, Siltbreeze and Drag City, and toured New Zealand twice as the backing band for Bonnie Prince Billy. In 1993 she moved to Port Chalmers. Her first paintings were shown in a Dunedin cafe in 1995, and she was invited to exhibit at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery the next year. She is known for large, surreal landscape paintings, and her work is in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United States. The 2011 Christchurch earthquake destroyed her Diamond Harbour home, and she and her family moved to the United States in 2012. Based in Joshua Tree, California, she continues to make art and tours with The Renderers. Crook has won several awards, including the 2003 William Hodges Fellowship, a 2005 Waikato Art Award Merit Award, and the 2006 Wallace Development Award.