In this richly illustrated monograph author Seva Frangos celebrates the work of contemporary Australian Indigenous artist Timothy Cook. The author has included contributions from four curators with a connection to Melville Island where Timothy Cook lives and works, who have all aided in some way in advancing his reputation as an artist. Contributions cover Timothy Cook and the Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association, the artist’s relationship with his beloved dog and his place in the community, analysis of his signature style, the relationship between Cook’s art and Melville Island, Cook’s indigenous art and cultural interchange, and a variety of other related subjects. The book includes full color reproductions of Cook’s artwork as well as photographs of the related culture and landscape. The author is a promoter of Australian Indigenous Art and the former Deputy Director/Director of Exhibitions and Development at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Distributed in the US by ISBS Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Timothy Cook has been lauded as a leading contemporary Australian artist: critically acclaimed, honored with the prestigious 2012 29th Telstra National Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, included in major exhibitions throughout Australia, and well represented in significant public and corporate collections. He has lived and worked for his entire life in a small settlement in the Tiwi Islands, in remote Indigenous Australia, deeply attached to his place. Cook is also a maverick artist: non-conformist, individualistic, original and inventive, straddling the modern and ancient with confidence. In this stunning monograph, author Seva Frangos attests to Timothy Cook's achievements, inhabiting a place and space where innovation might seem impossible against the background of tradition and ritual; where he realigns artistic and cultural boundaries and re-explores being Tiwi. These pages capture the remarkable levels of energy and emotional charge in his painting, and provide a brilliant introduction to Cook's vast body of work created over two decades in a range of media. [ Subject: Art, Aboriginal Studies]
