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 in his studio

Hookey is a core member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous collective proppaNOW.

Hookey has been exhibited in the Sydney Biennale with Paranoia Annoy Ya.[3] 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.[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. "Biennale of Sydney 2004 - Artist". web.archive.org. 21 June 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  4. "Gordon Hookey: Ruddock's Wheel". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 8 October 2020.


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