Making a Mark

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Making a Mark

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [20-217] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [20-217] (Acrylic on Linen)
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TIMO HOGAN

Lake Baker
20-217
Acrylic on Linen
 Lake Baker | 20-217
Acrylic on Linen
 137 x 200cm | 53.94 x 78.74in
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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. He surveys the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) of his birthright and brings this into focus on the two dimensional plane.  It is this narrative that forms a major portion within Lake Baker and is where the two men encounter a powerful Wanampi (water serpent) that resides there.

In this composition Timo has depicted the Two Men as the physical manifestation of two small grass knolls upon the lake itself and has the ever present and larger than life Wanampi wrapped around the perimeter as he departs from his kapi piti ngura (home in the waterhole) and is closely watching the Two Men.

Timo says the Wanampi goes out hunting each day. These characters are the creation beings who shaped and made the landscape as they moved through it, leaving not only the indelible physical reminders of their power and presence but a moral drama that is alive and etched within the world for all to follow.

Timo Hogan calmly applies the paint to Lake Baker with the quiet authority of someone recreating the country they know intimately. He surveys the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) of his birthright and brings this into focus on the two dimensional plane.  It is this narrative that forms a major portion within Lake Baker and is where the two men encounter a powerful Wanampi (water serpent) that resides there.

In this composition Timo has depicted the Two Men as the physical...