Some Las Vegas Strip Clubs
Book Launch: The White Horse (Blush)
Tuesday 7th April 6pm – 9pm
Julie Cook

The work continues Julie Cook’s interest in sexuality and voyeurism and our desire for fantasy and escape in western culture. It also questions the position of the female gaze within it. The work began in London with the award-winning book, ‘Baby Oil and Ice, Striptease in East London’, that looked at London pub striptease and gave a voice to those who worked in that world. Some Las Vegas Strip Clubs is about the clubs themselves, photographed using medium format film and saturated colour that both elevate and highlight the components and symbols of desire in the 21st century. The environments encourage sexual freedom for many men, but also for women as the clubs open up specific areas for male striptease.

BOOK ORDERS AND PREVIEW:
www.blurb.com

PRESS RELEASE
Growth of Erotic Industries Worldwide

No Ball Games
Four Corners Gallery
2nd Nov – 15th Dec 2007
Weds - Sat, 1pm – 6pm.
Artists: Jo Broughton, Julie Cook, Moira Lovell, Charlotte Prodger
Artist talk: Thursday 29th November 7.00pm – 8.30pm

Four female artists use film and photography to investigate role reversal, sexual ambiguities and voyeurism.

Burlesque Boyz
T: 020 8981 6111
E: owen@fourcornersfilm.co.uk

The work looks at the pleasure of looking at another as an erotic object from a female perspective. With the aim of reversing traditional male stereotypes and engaging a new audience, Julie Cook organised a series of male performance evenings that gave the opportunity for men to perform burlesque. The work was photographed at the Working Men’s Cub in Bethnal Green, East London - a venue that still exists as a Working Men’s Club but has been rejuvenated by a fresh and fashionable audience.

Downtown Navada
October 1st – 30 November 2006
Open daily 8am-7pm
Astral Star Cafe
383 Bethnal Green Road
London E2

Photos from downtown Las Vegas and Reno, both old casino towns where signs of early days of casino and motel architecture still exist. Compared to today’s sophisticated architecture the signage is quaint and old fashioned yet none of them are probably older than fifty years. These cities often have no consideration for the past and old buildings are frequently torn down to make way for the new. It is no accident that photographer Julie Cook selected her local cafe Astral Star for her exhibition. Greasy spoon cafes often feature fading dreams and far away places on their walls. Now these undervalued local institutions are also under threat.

This exhibition is part of Photomonth 2006 co-ordinated by Alternative Arts www.alternativearts.co.uk

Las Vegas Diaries
21 June - 18 July 2005

'America's new dream capital, a city that gambled on the post-industrial service economy long before the rest of the country new it was coming, and won'

Neon Metropolis by Hal Rothman
The Las Vegas Diaries is a body of work on Las Vegas that takes a personal perspective of the city and have been taken over a period of five years. It continues Julie Cook’s work on voyeurism, fantasy and escape and explores the difficulties of living the western dream in Las Vegas – a city where consumption of experience is extreme. It is positioned from the personal perspective of the hotel room but also embraces aspects of the city itself. It is a collaboration with writer/architect Paul Davies who is the subject of may of the photos and also author of the writing that will be published with the photos as a limited edition art book later this year.

Limited edition book by Paul Davies and Julie Cook
OUT OF STOCK

Baby Oil & Ice
Striptease in East London
July-September 2004
Coffee, Cake and Kink
61 Endelll Street, London, WC2, UK
www.coffeecakeandkink.com

Celebrate the art of striptease, fantasy and voyeurism English pub-style. This exhibition of highly saturated colour photographs comes from the Erotic Award winning 'Baby Oil and Ice: Striptease in East London' (The Do- Not -Press, 2002)

The Sex Show
August 2004
The Lotus Gallery
10 Chapel Row
Bath
BA1 1HN
T: 01225 444480
E: info@thelotusgallery.co.uk
W: www.thelotusgallery.co.uk

Big Tits Rule
19 March - 18 April 2004
1 000 000 mph
project space
59 Old Bethnal Green Road
London E2, UK
T: 02077296557
W: www.1000000mph.com
Artists: Hayley Newman, Helen Sear, Amanda Foncette, Lisa le Feuvre, Kirsten Brynelsen, Nina Krieger, Kathy Battista, Natasha Rees Szuper Gallery, Marcia Farquhar, Sara Poldaas, Julie Cook

A curatorial premise with no interest in object.
An invitation to exhibit with no vetting of work.
An assemblage determined by only one thing,
"girl,' how big are your tits'"?
Curator Kate Grieve sets the standard with a '"D" cup and above rule.
Come forward are a group of women working both in and out of the studio. They push the boundaries of art making: throw out the monikers of artist, writer, theorist and critic. Buggering feminism, flogging misogyny - this group share stature and that is their only concern.

Striptease
December 2002/January 2003
Coco de Mer
23 Monmouth Street
London, WC2, UK
W: www.coco-de-mer.co.uk

Baby Oil and Ice
16th - 30th September 2002
All Action Gallery London EC1
T: 0207 734 3888
E: mail stella@fortepr.co.uk)

Baby Oil and Ice is a collaboration between three women, my self, another photographer Sarah Ainslie and a stripper, Lara Clifton. The exhibition celebrates the launch of our book under the articulation imprint from The Do-Not Press.

Prints on sale

Baby Oil and Ice
19th October - 19th November 2001
Hereford Photography festival
T: 01432 351964
E: e -mail enquiries@photofest.org
W: www.photofest.org

A glimpse into a world the traditional world of pub striptease.Includes poems, stories, lists and interviews written by strippers and customers.

Paul
August 2001
Slade School of Art
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
T: 0207 679 7772

Paul is the subject of an enormous number of close- up portraits taken over a period of two years often in the privacy of our home. With little contextual iconography, the emphasis is on the emotional expression of the subject.

Exhibish
November 2000
Indo -133 Whitechapel Road
London E1

A collaboration between strippers, their customers
and two photographers Julie Cook and Sarah Ainslie

Loving Las Vegas
From 7th July until 8th September 2000
matchec1
45-47 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5RS
T: 020 7250 4002
F: 020 74993553

You're sitting in a bar, quietly, minding your own business in the city of Las Vegas. You like bars, they are peaceful, secure places. You don't mind particularly which kind of bar, they all have qualities. You enjoy finding new ones, and loving old favourites, like friends. Sometimes the best are 'off strip', local bars, dark as night interiors with the sun baking the car lot, where each of you has a story. But every now and then, because you're a tourist and you're there to indulge yourself, you'll head back to The Strip with your AMEX, for anonymous luxury.
So you could be waiting with the hookers in Kooters in Naked City, or for boullabaisse in Buzios at the Rio, or staring blankly as you spin around the round-a-bout bar in Circus Circus, or high on a roof top outside the Voodoo Lounge, trashed, with the Japanese. Wherever you are, you are still, you are thinking, you are wondering, just how fantastic this place is.

MA Photography Final Show
From 14th August until 25th August 2000
The Lowe Group
Bowater House
68-114 Knightsbridge
London SW1 Y7LT
T: 020 7584 5033