Michael Cook (born 1968)

OBJECT, 2014

suite of five inkjet prints Epson Ultra Chrome K3 inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Bright White 310 gsm paper

100.0 x 70.0 cm prints 1,2,4 and 5, 100.0 x 140.0 cm print 3

edition: AP 2/2 aside from an edition of 8
each signed and bears artist’s thumbprint, inscribed with title and numbered on artist’s stamped label verso

Collection of the artist, Brisbane
Private collection, Brisbane

Michael Cook, Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, Palazzo Mora Venice, Italy, 9 May – 22 November 2015 (another example)
Michael Cook, Object, THIS IS NO FANTASY + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, 19 May – 20 June 2015 (another example)
Storm in a Teacup, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Mornington, 25 July – 27 September 2015 (Object – Table)
Tracking Memories, Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art Utrecht (AAMU), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21 January – 15 June 2017 (another example)
Michael Cook, Object, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, 15 December 2017 – 11 March 2018
Michael Cook, Ten Cubed, Melbourne, 14 May – 3 August 2019 (another example)

Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, Global Art Affairs Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2015 pp. 54 – 55 (illus.)
Rainforth, D., ‘Photographer Michael Cook’s Object exhibition delivers delicate role-reversal’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 2015

Another example of this suite is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Another example of an image from this suite is held in the collection of Yarra City Council Art Collection, Melbourne.

Michael Cook lives and works in Brisbane
Bidjara people of South-West Queensland

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Moreton Bay Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Yarra City Arts, Yarra City Council, Melbourne
Tweed Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Port Phillip Council, Melbourne
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland

REPRESENTED BY
THIS IS NO FANTASY + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane