Journey through Culture

Presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

Journey through Culture

Presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [19-341] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [19-341] (Acrylic on Linen)
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TIMO HOGAN

Lake Baker
19-341
Acrylic on Linen
 Lake Baker | 19-341
Acrylic on Linen
 200 x 230cm | 78.74 x 90.55in
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Timo Hogan paints his country of Lake Baker, a large salt lake to the north of traditional Spinifex Country. Timo says ’this is a dangerous place’. For it is here that the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) is present. Timo depicts the two men as the concentric circles as they are now etched into the landscape as two grassy knolls upon the lakes surface. He places tracks leading to these, interpreting the movement of the men as they search for food away from the lake, always alert to the presence of the powerful wanampi (water serpent) that resides in the rockhole on the other side, where he drinks the water. This wanampi is dangerous and must be appeased before approaching. Timo states that he is family and can let the wanampi know of his peaceful intentions.

These are creation beings who etched a moral narrative within the landscape that they themselves created. It is their movements that left a mapped environment that is both religion and song.

Timo Hogan paints his country of Lake Baker, a large salt lake to the north of traditional Spinifex Country. Timo says ’this is a dangerous place’. For it is here that the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) is present. Timo depicts the two men as the concentric circles as they are now etched into the landscape as two grassy knolls upon the lakes surface. He places tracks leading to these, interpreting the movement of the men as they search for food away from the lake, always...