Gordon Hookey Painter Australian Artist Milani Gallery

Gordon Hookey (born 1961 in

Cloncurry Cloncurry is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. It is informally known by local people as The Curry. Cloncurry is the administrative centre of the Shire of Cloncurry. Cloncurry is known as the ''Friendl ...

) is an Australian aboriginal artist from the

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people. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1992) and lives in

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, Australia. He is primarily known as a painter but his practice also involves sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, and to a lesser extent, animation. Hookey is a core member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous collective

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. Hookey has been exhibited in the

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with ''Paranoia Annoy Ya''. He had an exhibition called ''Ruddock's Wheel'', which made fun of a comment by

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who said that aborigines had not used the wheel. In 2007, Hookey was amongst 60 artists profiled in Sonia Payes' book ''Untitled. Portraits of Australian Artists.'' In 2018 Gordon Hookey was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for the

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James C Sourris AM Collection
In the interview Hookey talks to Bruce McLean, Curator of

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at the

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about his life, his inspirations and the meanings of his works. His work is part of numerous museum collections among which the Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, in the Netherlands. On the occasion of the closure of the museum, the Amsterdam based art platform Framer Framed organised the exhibition ''In the future everything will be as certain as it used to be'' (2017) where his work was shown.

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External links

Gordon HookeyGordon Hookey interviewed by Bruce McLean : James C. Sourris Artist Interview Series 2017-2018
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 5 May 2018. 8.23min, 33min and 2:38 hour version available to view online.
Portrait of an artist: Gordon Hookey
Portrait of an Artist is an in conversation event series by the State Library of Queensland.
DAAO Biography of Gordon HookeyNational Gallery of Victoria Biography PageGordon Hookey portraits
State Library of Queensland 1961 births Living people Australian Aboriginal artists People from Cloncurry, Queensland {{Australia-artist-stub