![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [25-137] (Acrylic on Linen)](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/artwork/t/lake-baker-6335-LARGE-2.jpg)
TIMO HOGAN
Lake Baker25-137 (2025)
Acrylic on Linen
Lake Baker | 25-137
Acrylic on Linen
200 x 580cm | 78.74 x 228.35in
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Within this painting, Timo pushes the creative boundaries to shape the composition in a new direction. He lays out the compelling characters in a broad landscape but more than this, he places the powerful wanampi in its own realm within the dark void. Here he weaves the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) into the surrounding landscape. The Two Men watch as the ever present and dangerous Wanampi (Water Serpent) moves in unfamiliar directions. These are the lakes inhabitants who bring alive the creation narrative that forms the very landscape it speaks of. The characters are the creation beings, those first beings, who not only shaped the immediate environment with their actions but left a moral compass intertwined within the mapped habitat for all to follow.
In this work Timo has used sand collected from lakes north of Tjuntjuntjara to provide texture to Lake Baker. Timo created these works to explore the tactile contrasts of Lake Baker that occur through time. Timo often talks of the changes in the Lake he observes when he visits as pana (sand) blows onto the lake in drought and how this sand is later replaced with the crystalline salts after great desert floods. As wind and rain change the lake the indelible marks of its creations beings remain stark.
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