Gordon Hookey
Born 1961 Cloncurry, Queensland. People: Waanyi. Lives & works, Brisbane.
Education
2008 – 12
Master of Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
1989 – 91
Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Paintings, Sculpture and Video, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
Wellaroo, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney
2015
Extant, Artrageous, Deagon
2014
Gordon Hookey: Kangaroo Crew, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2012
Graduation Exhibition, Whitebox Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
Recent Sculpture and Drawing, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010
Recent Drawings: The Kangaroo Series, Nellie Caston Gallery, Melbourne
2009
“WHICHWAY!...?’’ Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2008
“a ready made joke”, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2007
So Fist Tick Catered Phenomenaah, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Contempt Free Hart, Contemporary Arts, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland
Con Ject Charr-Jarr-Yarh-”Arrgh”, Koorie Heritage Trust Inc, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Kopatai Project Space, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand
2005
www.gordonhoo.com, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Ruddocks Wheel, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2000
Untitled, Villa Van Delden, Ahaus, Germany
1996
Terraism, Red Shed Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
1995
Interface Inya Face, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
1994
Canadian Exchange, Arthaus, Sydney
Two-Person Exhibitions
2001
In Ya Face (with Gordon Syron), Boomali Aboriginal Artists Cooperative , Sydney
1998
Furious (with Andy Lelei), Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2022
The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2021
OCCURRENT AFFAIR: proppaNOW, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2019
Just Not Australian, Artspace, Sydney
The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Brisbane
2018
Frontier Imaginaries ed. 5: Trade Markings, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven
Continental Drift: From Blak to Black, CIAF, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
2017
The National, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
dOCUMENTA 14, Athens and Kassel
2016
Beyond the Tower: UQ Art Museum - 40 years and counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Frontier Imaginaries, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2015
Out of Queensland: New Indigenous Textiles, Cairns Regional Gallery
2014
Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home (Touring), Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki
FOUR ROOMS, Adelaide Festival, Tandanya, Adelaide
proppaNOW – the black line, Bett Gallery, Hobart
proppaNOW, Brisbane Powerhouse
2013
NEW2013, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Born to Concrete, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
My Country, I Still Call Australia Gome, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2012
Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Sculpture Is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
ANIMAL / HUMAN, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Making Change, Beijing, National Art Museum of China, ANIMATION: TERRAIST
2011
Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Black See, proppaNOW, Kickarts Contemporary Arts, Cairns
Felix Australia, ICE Gallery at Crane Arts, Philadelphia
2010
PAY ATTENTION, Tony Albert and friends City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Jus’ Drawn, proppaNOW, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne & touring with NETS through regional Victoria until 2011
PUTSCH, proppaNOW, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide Festival Visual Arts
2009
I walk the line, New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2008
Australian, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Selected Recent Acquisitions, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2007
Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra & touring in Australia and Washington until 2009
The Amersham Trophy, proppaNOW , Ambleside Street Studio, West End, Brisbane
Friendly Fire, proppaNOW Group, George Petelin Gallery, Gold Coast
Power and Beauty: Indigenous Art Now, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC.
2006
Urban Aboriginal Artists of NSW, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative Exhibition, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide There Goes The Neighbourhood, proppaNOW, Ambleside Street Studio, Brisbane
2004
On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Colour Power, National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
Urban Aboriginal Artists of NSW, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative Exhibition, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
2003
Con-Sen-Trick-Sir-Kills, Linden Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
One Square Mile, Museum of Brisbane
Travelling Waters linking our Communities 11th Mil-Pra AECG, Aboriginal Exhibition and Art Award, Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney
Flannelette, Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney
2002
The History of Things to Come, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Common Ground, Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney
2001
Weaving Garden, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Caught in the Headlights, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Intermission, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Dingo Flat, Workshop and Exhibition, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
Uncommon World, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2000
Aboriginal Expo 2000, Olympic Site, Sydney
Mum Shirl Tribute Exhibition, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Shop Front, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Black 2 Basics, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Comfort Zone, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
Beyond the Pale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1999
Reconcilliation, Lane Cover Culture and Music Centre, Sydney
Black and White, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1998
White Man Can’t Dance, Bangarra Theatre, Sydney
Furious, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (residency), Sydney
La Casa Musicale, Perpignan, France
My Country, Fairfield Regional Heritage Centre, Sydney
Fourth NATSI Heritage Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Djarlaringi, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Our Children, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Wake Naima, Djabai Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia
1997
Off-Shore: On-site, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Black Letter Law, Touring Exhibition, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Black on Trac, Annual Members Exhibition, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, SydneyBlack Humour, (touring) Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1996
Finders Keepers, Margrove Heritage Centre, Cleveland, England, UK
1995
Skin, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney
Native Title, Touring Exhibition, Tandanya, Adelaide
Power Games, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
NAIDOC Week on the Street, Paddington, Sydney
16 Songs, (Touring Exhibition), The University Art Museums, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States of America
Reactions, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
1994
3rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Heritage Art Award, The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Man Animal Man, Gorman House, Canberra
Crossworks, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Naii Ngarrambi Wanggirali Nangi Dyannai Ngurui, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Neo Locula Collection, Arthaus, Sydney
Urban Artyfact, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
1993
Dante in Australia, Centro Deantesco, Ravenno, Italy
1992
Continuity, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative, Sydney
1991
Solid, The Works Gallery, Sydney
1990
Maroochy Arts Festival, Maroochy Town Hall, Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Awards and Grants
2009 Albers Foundation Studio Residency, Connecticut, USA (Australia Council for the Arts)
2008 Casula Powerhouse Residency, Sydney
2008 Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space and Studios Residency, Melbourne
2007 Umbrella Studios Residency, Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Queensland
2006 Otago University Residency, Dunedin, New Zealand
2006 Banff Centre Residency, Banff, Canada
2005 Deadly Award – Visual Artist of the Year
2004 Casula Powerhouse Residency, Sydney
1998 Emerging Artists Prize, 4th NATSI Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1990 Maroochy Arts Prize, Maroochy, Queensland
Collections
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Liverpool City Council, Liverpool, New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
AKT Consultancy Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cleveland Shire Council Cleveland, United Kingdom
Djabai Cultural Centre Noumea, New Caledonia
Jabal Centre Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia
Margrave Heritage Centre Cleveland, England, United Kingdom
Native Studies University of Alberta, Canada
Osaka Museum of Ethnology Osaka, Japan
Private Collections
Publications
E Buttrose, ‘Sculpture Is Everything’, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, p. 40, 2012
G Petelin, ‘Nationality, Internationality and Indigenous Culture’, Australia Felix, Octivius Press, Brisbane, pp.10–12, 2011
B McLean, Good and Proppa: Urban Aboriginal Art from Queensland, 10 years of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2011
McLean, Ian. Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art. Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016, pp. 237.
B Munting, Gordon Hookey, Australian Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, 2010
L Nowell, Putsch, proppaNOW, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, 2010
B Croft, ‘Contemporary Australian Art at the Asia Pacific: Flash Gordon’s message, Language Is a Virus—The Kings English (Not)’, Artlink vol. 30, no. 1, p. 52–54, 2010
E Heartney, ‘Identity and Locale’, Art in America, no. 5, May, p. 65, 2009
M Demozay, Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland Australia, Keeairu Press, Southport, Queensland, 2006
R Nelson, The serious art of fun, The Age Metro 18 May, 2005 p.9
Dr Joseph Pugliese, Theatre’s of War, Reason and Emotion exhibition catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Biennale June, 2004
The art of politics, Herald Sun February, 2004
Gallery defends right to show painting, Herald Sun February, 2004
Gallery slammed for Painting Mocking Howard - Bush Ties, Common Dreams News Centre February, 2004
Art lampoon causes stink in Australia, The Washington Times February, 2004
Australian gallery defends right to display political painting, ABC Radio Australia February, 2004
J Pugliese, ‘Gordon Hookey: Theatres of War’, in I Carlos (ed.), On Emotion and Reason: Sydney Biennale 2004, Biennale of Sydney Ltd, Sydney, pp. 110–113, 2004
J Ryan, ‘Screaming Out Loud What People Are Whispering: Gordon Hookey on Art’, Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004
G Coslovich, Box Office - (the best of art), The Age (Melbourne) Magazine October, 2004 p.113
J Kelly, Art attack on PM Howard, Herald Sun February, 2004
J Liston The Personal is Political, The Weekend Australian June, 2004
S Kidd, A mild-mannered provocateur on the move, The Emerald Hill Times July, 2003
A Finnegan, ‘Border Panic: Open Channel on Refugees’, Artlink, vol. 23, no.1, p. 20, 2003
M Helmrich, Mianjin ngatta yarrana (Brisbane, I’m Going), Square Mile Brisbane Boundaries catalogue essay, Museum of Brisbane, 2003
C Thompson, Operation Honesty - The Art of Gordon Hookey, Con-Sent-Trick Sir-Kills exhibition catalogue essay, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art July, 2003
A MacDonald, Making Art at the Interface, Places That Name Us, RAKA Award: contemporary visual arts #3, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne October, 2003
P Munro, Shirt that won the west - and selected outposts, The Sydney Morning Herald, April, 2003
M Madigan, Students leap to save the PM from being depicted as a pig, The Courier Mail September, 2002
Tom Sear, and Conroy Wood, Diana, Common Ground: Exploring the royal National park - the dramatic common ground shared by Southern Sydney and the Illawarra
exhibition catalogue, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 2002
Controversial painting prompts racism row, ABC News Online September, 2002
Painting sparks outrage, News Mail September, 2002
B Genocchio, Your Space or Mine?, The Weekend Australian November - December, 2002
G Hookey, ‘Ruddocks Wheels’, Border Panic Reader, Australia Network for Art and Technology, Performance Space Sydney, p. 70–72, 2002
C Hennessy, Painting outrages students, September, 2002
B James, Festival’s King Hit, Sydney Morning Herald March, 2000
P Cochrane, Festival of hope amid anger and reminders of sorry past, Sydney Morning Herald March, 2000
M Fitzgerald, Renewing the country, Time April, 2000
D Broker, Beyond the pale - Adelaide biennial of Australian Art, Eyeline Spring, 2000
M Billington, Feast for the eyes, The Guardian March, 2000
B Croft, Beyond the
Pole: Contemporary Indigenous Art, 2000 Adelaide Biennale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery Board of South Australia. 2000
S Sandkötter, Künstler stellen Entwürfe für das Ahauser Wandbild vor, Wochenpost. 24 Mai, 2000
Wandbild nimmt Gestalt an, Ahauser Zeitung, 2000
R Usher, History Rears its ugly head, The Age 2000
H McQueen, Art can reveal but never resolve, Art Monthly April, 2000
D Mellor, Review - beyond the pale, Art and Australia spring, 2000
J Mendelssohn, A Sorry storey, The Bulletin March, 2000
R&V Megaw, Art indigenous and incredible, Adelaide Advertiser March, 2000
S McCullock-Uehlin, Mind the gap, The Weekend Australian, March 2000
P Lloyd, Contemporary Challenge February, 2000
J Kean, The diversity of practice - Political theatre in Beyond the Pale, Artlink, vol. 20, no.1 2000
TJ McNamara, Heroics from the Pacific edge, The Weekend Herald October, 1999
B James, When the pen is mightier than the word, Sydney Morning Herald February, 1999
B James, Catching the lost wave, Sydney Morning Herald November, 1998
J Albert, Laughter mixed with tears,
Australian Magazine June, 1998
Hanson influence in Black Humour, Northern Territory News April, 1998
C Jones, Distinctly black, Real Time August/September, 1997
S Barron, Provocative and timely humour, The Canberra
Times, July 1997
H Musa, A capital life, The Canberra Times, October, 1997
C Proudfoot, Aboriginal artists see funny side, Canberra Times, July, 1997
S Radok, Black humour, Artlink vol.18 no.3 Winter, 1997
A Carver, Naturally cultured/culturally natured: Recent dialogue between Aboriginal art and the environment,Periphery, no26 February 1996 p.10
D Shires, Just see it, Muse #163 July, 1996
N Captain Sears, Cook; hero or villain? 1996
S Whitton, Bridging the gap through art, Whitby Gazette August 23, 1996 p.5
Artist takes a dig at Manly, The Manly Daily, January 28, 1995
D Leach, The Earth, Something That Belongs To Us, The Leader, 1994
I Slarke, Dante in Australia - Trenta Artisti Australiani 1993
S Stegall, Sprit Spirals and Samovers, Tharunka, 1993