Timo Hogan
Aug 2022
IN ASSOCIATION WITH SPINIFEX ARTS PROJECT
On exhibition at
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
Vimy Lane
Parap
+61 8 8981 5368
OPENING HOURS
Wed to Fri 10 am – 4 pm
Sat 10 am – 2 pm
“Timo Hogan does not paint the picture. He paints the story. And the story is the big picture. He 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.”
Lake Baker is guarded by a powerful Wati Wanampi (Water Serpent Man) who resides in a rockhole to the edge of the lake and must be pacified by different rituals before one can enter. As a young boy, Timo was taught these necessary protocols for visiting and communicating with the Wati Wanampi by his father.
Timo’s story follows the ever present and larger than life Wanampi. Timo says, [that when] that Wati Wanampi has been out hunting, he must hold his scales in as he enters his kapi ngura (home in the waterhole).
Timo’s work also 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. It is this narrative that forms a major portion within Lake Baker and is where the two men encounter the powerful Wanampi.
These characters that Timo talks of are the Creation beings; those that came before and shaped the environment as they moved through it, leaving indelible physical reminders of their power and presence for all to see. But they also intertwined a religious moral framework within the habitat and covered it with song and dance.
– SPINIFEX ARTS PROJECT
IMAGE: Timo Hogan, Lake Baker at night (detail), 2021, acrylic and phosphorescent pigment on linen, 290 x 200 cm, 22-146
PHOTOGRAPHY BY FIONA MORRISON
selected paintings
The full exhibition can be viewed on the Norther Centre For Contemporary Art website.
