# 45582
COOK, Michael (1968 - )
Michael Cook : Uninhabited
$40.00 AUD
Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2011. Square quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated. An excellent copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.
‘Michael Cook is a photographer who worked commercially both in Australia and overseas for twenty-five years. In 2009, Cook was drawn into art photography by an increasingly urgent desire to learn about his Aboriginal ancestry and identity. As a child, Cook was adopted and raised by a non-Indigenous family. Although they were not Aboriginal, they were active in their support of Indigenous rights. He said, ‘I was raised with a strong understanding of my Aboriginal ancestry thanks to my parents. When I produce art, I feel a stronger connection with my ancestry. This helps me to understand Australian history-in particular, my history.’
Drawing upon his many years of experience as a photographer within the commercial fashion industry, he employs photographic layering to build his images. Also, he characteristically works in photographic series, his unfolding tableaux offer insolvable narratives which are not prescribed but left open to interpretation.