Gordon Hookey

Australian Aboriginal artist

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Hookey in his studio

Gordon Hookey (born 1961 in 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.

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]

In 2007, Hookey was amongst 60 artists profiled in Sonia Payes' book Untitled. Portraits of Australian Artists.[5]

In 2018 Gordon Hookey was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for the State Library of Queensland's James C Sourris AM Collection. In the interview Hookey talks to Bruce McLean, Curator of Indigenous Australian Art at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art about his life, his inspirations and the meanings of his works.[6]

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.[7]

## References

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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". 21 June 2005. Archived from the original on 21 June 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
4. ^ "Gordon Hookey: Ruddock's Wheel". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
5. ^ Payes, Sonia (2007). Untitled: portraits of Australian artists. South Yarra, Vic: Macmillan Art Pub. ISBN 978-1-876832-28-5.
6. ^ "Gordon Hookey interviewed by Bruce McLean : James C. Sourris Artist Interview Series 2017-2018". State Library of Queensland OneSearch Catalogue.
7. ^ "Framer Framed, 'In the future everything will be as certain as it used to be', 2017".

## External links

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* Gordon Hookey
* Gordon 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 Hookey
* National Gallery of Victoria Biography Page
* Gordon Hookey portraits, State Library of Queensland

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