Minnie Crook is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Rooted in autobiography, her practice draws from lived experience to create compelling and thought-provoking work that challenges perceptions of the world around her. Through an ongoing exploration of personal history, memory and nostalgia, she investigates her Irish lineage and genealogical connections through performance.
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Her work is highly visual, immersive, and experimental - it engages audiences through visual projection, choreography and song. Often collaborating with both artists and non-artists, Minnie’s work responds to shifting cultural and emotional landscapes, creating space for reflection and dialogue.​
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She is deeply engaged in social practice and regularly works with young people through Imagine That Performing Arts, Reconnect Regal, Imaginate and Playbox Theatre. Additionally, she is a Drama Facilitator at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and has worked as a facilitator on Sally Charlton's commission for Lyra's bright and Wild Festival.
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Minnie has also undertaken artist residencies at Jupiter Artland and within the RCS Archives and Collections department. She has recently worked in collaboration with Althea Young, Laura Bissell and Maia Harding on the Activating the Archives project at Glasgow Women's Library. She has also been recipient of Imaginate's Creative Encounters Commission where she developed and performed WIG WALTZ alongside artist Dan Brown, and has worked with Craig McCorquodale in the research and development of his project Landmark. She frequently collaborates with 21Common, performing in Common is as Common Does: A Memoir at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Johnstone Town Hall. Her work with the company extends to leading artist residencies in schools, as well as Project Managing their Disruptive Pedagogy programme.
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Minnie graduated with First Class Honours from the BA Contemporary Performance Practice programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, receiving several awards, including The Percival Steads Prize for Appreciation of the Spoken Word and The Mary Stuart Prize for Public Speaking.
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