Michael Cook
(born 1968)
MAJORITY RULE (MEMORIAL), 2014
from the series MAJORITY RULE
inkjet print on archival Hahnemühle cotton paper
140.0 x 200.0 cm (image)
162.0 x 220.0 cm (frame)
edition: 1/3
Estimate:
$6,000 - $8,000
Sold:
$19,636 (inc. BP)
© courtesy of the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery
lot details
162.0 x 220.0 cm (frame)
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in April 2014
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, May 2015 – November 2020
Exhibited
19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 9 June 2014 (another example)
Michael Cook: Majority Rule, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2 April – 3 May 2014
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 August – 30 October 2016
Colony Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 March – 2 September 2018 (another example)
From Where I Stand, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 April – 14 July 2019 (another example)
Michael Cook: Undiscovered, University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Queensland, 17 August – 7 November 2020 (another example)
Literature
McDonald, J., ‘On Fantasy Island’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 19 – 20 April 2014, p. 18 (illus. another example)
Allen, C., ‘Message on the Sponsor’, The Australian, Sydney, 26 – 27 April 2014 (illus. another example)
Kowal, E., Trapped in the Gap Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, Berghahn Books, Oxford/New Work, 2015 (illus. cover, another example)
Craig, G., and Presley, R., Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, p. 11 (illus.), 90
Related Works
Full sets of the small version of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and the Monash University Collection, Melbourne.


