TIMOTHY COOK: THE APPROACH
Kulama represents Cook’s living memories of the harvest and initiation ritual for young men and
women attended by hundreds.
Fierce defenders of their island, the Tiwi possess an arresting and fluid sense of design
that incorporates past and present applications. Timothy Cook began painting in the mid- 1990s and
has developed an unequivocally Tiwi aesthetic – by definition, one that yields to an individual
sense of innovation and touch while holding fast to origins.
Under the guidance of old Tiwi visual traditions Cook brings a singular intensity to his
Kulama paintings, which refer obliquely to the late wet season yam ceremony. No longer performed
with regularity, kulama represents Cook’s living memories of the harvest and initiation ritual
for young men and women attended by hundreds.
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TIMOTHY COOK
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