By merging traditional Kamilaroi diamond-shaped designs, hand-drawn symbols and repetitive patterning with contemporary mediums, such as printmaking, sculpture, video, painting and neon, Reko Rennie subverts romantic ideologies of Aboriginal identity.
With more than 100 works on display, including early paintings that translate the language of street art onto canvas, a fifteen-metre-wide light sculpture, a Rolls Royce covered in bold pink and black camouflage, and the world premiere of the artist’s latest large-scale figurative painting, this exhibition is Rennie’s largest presentation of work to date and his first-ever retrospective exhibition.
Reko Rennie, I WEAR MY OWN CROWN, 2022, pigment and acrylic on linen and aluminium stretchers, 180 × 180cm. Private collection. © the artist. Courtesy the artist, STATION, Naarm/Melbourne and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
11 October 2024 to 27 January 2025
Melbourne
