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. [20-219] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by TIMO HOGAN of Spinifex Artists. The title is Lake Baker. [20-219] (Acrylic on Linen)
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TIMO HOGAN

Lake Baker
20-219
Acrylic on Linen
 Lake Baker | 20-219
Acrylic on Linen
 200 x 230cm | 78.74 x 90.55in
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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 ever present and larger than life Wanampi getting ready to enter his kapi piti ngura (home in the waterhole) after being out in search of food.

These characters are the creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it, leaving not only the indelible physical reminders of their power and presence but a moral drama for all to follow, that is also etched within the world.

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 ever present and larger than...