Kaṉparkanya - The Wanampi

A Solo Exhibition by Timo Hogan

Kaṉparkanya - The Wanampi

A Solo Exhibition by Timo Hogan

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [24-191] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [24-191] (Acrylic on Linen)
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TIMO HOGAN

Lake Baker
24-191 (2024)
Acrylic on Linen
 Lake Baker | 24-191
Acrylic on Linen
 200 x 290cm | 78.74 x 114.17in
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Timo Hogan calmly applies the paint to Lake Baker with the quiet authority of someone recreating the country they know intimately.  

For here at Lake Baker, Timo tells of the religion within the landscape and the inhabitants that made it so. He surveys the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) of his birthright and brings this into focus on the two dimensional plane for all to see. In this composition Timo has depicted the Two Men as the physical manifestation of two small grass knolls upon the lake. The two men carefully monitor the lakes expanse as the ever present Wanampi (powerful water serpent) defines the perimeter of the lake. 

It is this interaction between the inhabitants of the lake that is ever present and allows Timo the creative latitude of a constantly changing landscape. These characters that Timo talks of are the Creation beings: those that came before and shaped the very environment we see, as they moved through it, leaving indelible physical reminders of their power and presence, but they also intertwined a moral framework within a mapped terrain and covered it with song and dance. This is a living landscape brimming with meaning for those with the means to see it.

Timo Hogan calmly applies the paint to Lake Baker with the quiet authority of someone recreating the country they know intimately.  
For here at Lake Baker, Timo tells of the religion within the landscape and the inhabitants that made it so. He surveys the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) of his birthright and brings this into focus on the two dimensional plane for all to see. In this composition Timo has depicted the Two Men as the physical manifestation of two small grass...