Kulama, 2010

75 x 56 cm, 93 x 75 cm frame

$4,750

Provenance: Jilamara Arts, Melville Island, NT, Cat No. (hidden by frame) The Jacquie McPhee Collection, WA ILLUSTRATED The Greatest Passion of All, The Jacquie McPhee Collection, 2017, Bluestar Print, Melbourne Illustrated p 274 a copy of the book accompanies the work
Artwork story: The Kulama ceremony is performed in the Tiwi Islands at the end of the wet season, celebrating life cycles, food abundance, and spiritual renewal. Timothy Cook's paintings of Kulama are bold, circular invocations of this moment, representing the moon, yam, and the circular arena where the ceremony unfolds. Executed in white, yellow, and red ochre on black or dark ground, his works strike a balance between sacred repetition and painterly improvisation. Each concentric form pulses with rhythm, reflecting both cosmic cycles and the grounded rituals of Tiwi ceremonial life. Timothy's work has become one of the defining expressions of contemporary Tiwi painting - both immediate and coded, gestural yet ceremonial. For collectors, his canvases offer visual dynamism and spiritual depth in equal measure.

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b. 1958

75 x 56 cm, 93 x 75 cm frame

$4,750

Provenance: Jilamara Arts, Melville Island, NT, Cat No. (hidden by frame) The Jacquie McPhee Collection, WA ILLUSTRATED The Greatest Passion of All, The Jacquie McPhee Collection, 2017, Bluestar Print, Melbourne Illustrated p 274 a copy of the book accompanies the work
Artwork story: The Kulama ceremony is performed in the Tiwi Islands at the end of the wet season, celebrating life cycles, food abundance, and spiritual renewal. Timothy Cook's paintings of Kulama are bold, circular invocations of this moment, representing the moon, yam, and the circular arena where the ceremony unfolds. Executed in white, yellow, and red ochre on black or dark ground, his works strike a balance between sacred repetition and painterly improvisation. Each concentric form pulses with rhythm, reflecting both cosmic cycles and the grounded rituals of Tiwi ceremonial life. Timothy's work has become one of the defining expressions of contemporary Tiwi painting - both immediate and coded, gestural yet ceremonial. For collectors, his canvases offer visual dynamism and spiritual depth in equal measure.