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TIMOTHY COOK
OTHER NAMES: TARTUWALI
BORN: 18/9/58
REGION: MELVILLE ISLAND
DOMICILE: MILIKAPITI
AGENCY: JILAMARA ARTS & CRAFT
COUNTRY: GOOSE CREEK
LANGUAGE: TIWI
SKIN GROUP: MARNTUPUNI (HOUSE FLY)
DANCE: TARDUWULI (SHARK)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2003 Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2004 Tarduwuli come to George Street, Aboriginal & Pacific
Art Gallery, Sydney
2005 Tartuwali apapirraya (the shark goes south) Aboriginal &Pacific
Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Timothy Cook, Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1997 Old Designs Framed Gallery Darwin NT
1997 Old Tiwi Alcaston House Gallery Melbourne Vic.
1998 The Old and the New, Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs NT
1998 Ngawa Mantawi - Mossenson Gallery Subiaco Perth
1997 Kartukuni Amintiya Jurra (Ironwood and Paper) Hogarth
Gallery Paddington NSW
1998 Group Exhibition, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
1998 Jilamara, Mossenson Gallery, Subiaco WA
1998- 2000 One Thousand Journeys, Tin Sheds Gallery,
Sydney & touring exhibition
1999 Tiwi on Wood, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 New Paintings from Milikapiti, Redback Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Art of the Tiwi, Framed Gallery Darwin
2000 This Earth for Us, Commonwealth Institute, London
2000 From Mythology to the Present, Wuerzburg , Germany
2000 Heritage Art Award, Canberra
2001 Jilamara, Jilamara Framed Gallery Darwin
2001 Island Images Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
2001 Ochre Short Street Gallery Broome
2001 Jilamara- New Work Redback
Art Gallery Brisbane
2001 Taykwapi Tiwi RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2002 – 2006 Kiripuranji, Artbank collection international
touring exhibition – South Pacific, South East Asia, Europe,
Africa, Middle East, Latin America.
2002 Pwoja Jilamara Raft Artspace Darwin
2002 19th NATSIAA, MAGNT Darwin
2002 27th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Art
Centre
2002 Awuna Mantawi Hello My Friends, Tandanya, Adelaide
2002 Summer Collector’s Exhibition, Alison Kelly Gallery,
Melbourne
2003 Exhibition aboard the luxury liner The World, Melbourne
to Tokyo
2003 Kuturkuni Amintiya Tapulunni, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2003 One Voice, Two Islands, Three Communities, Chapman Gallery,
Canberra
2003 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2003 Alliance Française Gallery, Canberra 24 – 29 October
in association with Chapman Gallery
2003 Let’s Keep Our Art Strong: Recent works from the
Jilamara Artists, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2004 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin (Special Commendation)
2004 Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpanguwi, Museum fur Volkerkunde,
Hamburg, Germany in association with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
2004 Milikapiti Turtiyanginari: Milikapiti Ochre, RAFT Artspace,
Darwin
2005 Yirrarra – Kulama amintiya Pukumani, Alcaston Gallery,
Melbourne
2005 Timothy Cook & Conrad Tipungwuti, Raft Artspace,
Darwin.
2005 NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2006 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Queensland
Art Gallery
2006 Awirankini Jilamara, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery,
Brisbane
2006 Nginingaji ngawula kurrupuranji Jilamara, RAFT Artspace,
Darwin
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri, Tiwi Art
Network, Darwin
2006 Jilamara: new etchings from Melville Island, Northern
Editions, Darwin
2006 Jilamara: new etchings from Melville Island, Northern
Editions, Alison Kelly Gallery Melbourne
2006 All the Tiwi Mob, Short St Gallery, Broome
2006 Jilamara Tiwi, Soma Galleries, Adelaide
2006 Jilamara works on paper, Sofitel Melbourne.
2006 Ngawila jilamara: our design, Aboriginal & Pacific
Art Gallery, Sydney
2006 Ratuwati amintiya ratuwati: Island to Island, Art
Mob, Hobart
2007 Red, Yellow, Black, White, Raft Artspace,
Darwin
2007 Tiwi Together, Aboriginal and Pacific Art,
Sydney
2007 Isarte - New Selection of Aboriginal Paintings,
Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy
COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artbank Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bennett, J. 'Ngingingawula Jilamara kapi purunguparri
(Our Paintings on Bark) Gallery Monthly Magazine of the National Gallery
Society of Victoria, September. 1992
1993 The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands,
catalogue, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston
1994 Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery
of Victoria, catalogue, NGV Melbourne
Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpangui, Jilamara Arts and Crafts, 2004 |
