MICHAEL COOK

b. 1968, Australia

Michael Cook Biography

Michael Cook (b.1968), a Bidjara photographer, is known for meticulously staged photographic tableaux that invert colonial narratives and interrogate how First Nations identity has been framed through history, display and representation.

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Representative Artworks

Michael Cook, Mother - Swimming Pool (2017). Inkjet print on cotton rag. 120 x 180 cm frame. Courtesy THIS IS NO FANTASY + Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

Exhibition view: Michael Cook, FAKE, THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne (24 August–24 September 2023). Courtesy THIS IS NO FANTASY.

Exhibition view: Michael Cook, Livin' the dream, THIS IS NO FANTASY dianne tanzer + nicola stein, Melbourne (1 April–6 June 2020). Courtesy THIS IS NO FANTASY dianne tanzer + nicola stein. Photo: Andrew Nobel.

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D Lan Galleries contemporary art gallery in Melbourne Australia

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News / Exhibitions More Than 40 Asia Pacific Artists Are Taking Over London’s V&A Zian Chen Announced today and opening in May, the show will present the work of more than 40 artists from 25 countries across the region.

Spotlight Art in Melbourne: Nine Online Programmes in 2020 Tessa Moldan Connect with Melbourne via nine online programmes ahead of Melbourne Art Fair’s Online Viewing Rooms.

Spotlight Michael Cook at THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, Art Basel in Hong Kong 2016 The camera is usually picked up late in the process. Formulating and finessing the idea may take months, then the camera is the tool I use to capture that vision.

Spotlight A report on Australian representation at the 56th Venice Biennale: 'All The World’s Futures' curated by Okwui Enwezor Tess Maunder Nigerian‑born curator, Okwui Enwezor re‑articulates the politics of representation in the wake of colonialism for the 56th iteration of the Venice Biennale.

Spotlight Notes On Desire: The 19Th Biennale Of Sydney Stella Rosa McDonald ” Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw In 1879, a French postman named Ferdinand Cheval began building an esoteric homage to the beauty of sandstone. On one of his postal rounds, Cheval came across small pieces of the stone...

Conversation Dianne Tanzer Anna Dickie Dianne Tanzer established her gallery, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects in Melbourne, Australia in 1990. Established as an exciting platform for Australian contemporary art, it continues to deliver a robust exhibition program.

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