Daniel CROOKS

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Born 1973, Hastings, New Zealand.
A graduate of the Auckland Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television, Crooks received an Australia Council Fellowship in 1997 to research motion control at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His reputation grew rapidly, with representation in important group exhibitions in Australia (including Primavera 2003 at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art) and in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia. His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival.