Artists statement
Michael Cook's Fake series is a visual essay in speculative history. Cook flips the conventional colonial narratives in his images that are tremendously playful at first glance but, on reflection, are deep interrogations of Australia's colonial history and its ongoing impacts on its First Peoples.
Michael Cook is a Brisbane-based photomedia artist of Bidjara heritage. Cook’s photographs re-stage colonial-focused histories and re-imagine the contemporary reality of indigenous populations. Touching on the discriminatory nature of society, his images muddle racial and social roles, painting a picture of a societal structure reversed.
Mounting & framing
Framed, glazed
