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Michael Cook Through My Eyes #26 (2010) Inkjet print 50 x 40 cm Edition 8 |
Biography
| Born
Heritage |
25
August 1968, Brisbane
Bidjara people of south-west Queensland |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Uninhabited, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2011 | Through My Eyes, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | Face
Up: A Look at portraits from the collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Queensland
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2010 | 15th Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
Awards
| 2011 | Winner,
‘Visual Artist of the Year’, 17th Annual Deadly Awards—the National
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards
Finalist, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2008 | Winner, ‘Visual Artist of the Year’, 14th Annual Deadly Awards—the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards |
Bibliography
| 15
Years of Contemporary Art: Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2010, Redlands, Sydney
Church of England Co-educational Grammar School, Sydney, 2010
Anon. ‘Michael Cook: Uninhabited’, National Indigenous Times, 12 May 2011 Anon. ‘Reclaiming our identity’, Caloundra Weekly, 11 May 2011 Anon. ‘Art: Shooting Star’, Deadly Vibe, March 2008 Anon. ‘098 Life behind the lens’, Culture, Yearbook 2001, Vol. 12, Number 6 Anon. ‘Memphis School’, Culture, Volume 12, Number 2, April/May 2010 Baum, Tina. ‘Michael Cook: Undiscovered’, Artonview, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Autumn 2011 | 65 Brown, Phil. ‘Deception exposed: Turning the lens from fashion to fine arts, this photographer confronts the history of Australia’, Brisbane News, 18–24 May 2011 Brown, Phil. ‘Enhanced Image’, Brisbane News, 5 November 2008 Campion, Alice. ‘Clever trick of the eye: With a little artistic licence these indigenous icons come home’ Kawana Weekly, 20 October 2011 Dauber, Christine. ‘Michael Cook: Through My Eyes’, Eyemazing, Issue 03–2011, Amsterdam Iseger-Pilkington, Glenn. ‘Michael Cook’ in Iseger-Pilkington, Glenn (Ed.), Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2011 Johnstone, Matt. ‘Cook conquers yet again’, Caloundra Weekly, 13 October 2011 Laffey, Cassandra. ‘The beautiful and the deadly’, Style Mini, November 2008 Lane, Margaret. ‘Executing Spontaneity’, Rangefinder, July 2008, Volume 57, Number 7 Lauth, Laura. ‘Deadly art coup for fresh view’, Sunshine Coast Daily, 8 October 2011 McCulloch, Susan (ed.). McCulloch’s Indigenous Art Diary 2012, McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, Balnarring, 2011 Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Michael Cook’, Australian Art Review, May–June 2011 Michael Cook: Uninhabited [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2011 Michael Cook: Through My Eyes [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2010 Walsh, John. Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2011: Catalogue of works [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 2011 Zou, Shall. ‘Flamboyance Never Fade’, Life Element, Theme Issue, #116 |
Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland La Trobe University, Melbourne Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne University of Western Sydney, Sydney University of Wollongong, New South Wales Alex Mackay Collection of Erotic Art, Brisbane |