Gordon Hookey

Gordon Hookey (born 1961 Cloncurry) is an Australian aboriginal artist from the Waanyi people.[1] He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1992) and lives in Brisbane, Australia. He is primarily known as a painter but his practice also involves sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, and to a lesser extent, animation.[2]

Hookey is a core member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous collective proppaNOW, alongside artists including Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, Jennifer Herd, Laurie Nilsen, Tony Albert and Megan Cope.

Hookey has been exhibited in the Sydney Biennale with Paranoia Annoy Ya. He had an exhibition called Ruddock's Wheel, which made fun of a comment by Philip Ruddock who said that aborigines had not used the wheel.

Gordon Hookey is represented by Nellie Castan Gallery in Melbourne and Milani Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.[3][4]

References
  1. "Gordon Hookey biography". Design and art Australia Online. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. Kirkwood, Dominic (10 January 2018). "NAVA Artist File: Gordon Hookey". NAVA National Association for the Visual Arts. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  3. Gordon Hookey on Artabase
  4. "Gordon Hookey | Milani Gallery". Milani Gallery. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.


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