This touring exhibition is the first survey of Brisbane-based, Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey, known for a biting satire of Australian culture and politics, witty critique of racism, and exploration of oral and image-based history-making traditions.
Spanning three decades of work and featuring large-scale painting, sculpture, printmaking and video, perspectives on historical and contemporary issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are presented via Hookey’s lived experience as a Murri person. A new commission continues Hookey’s series of protest banners, drawing inspiration from the artist’s vast collection of political posters.
Gordon Hookey, Houses are Homes, 2022, installation view, Gordon Hookey: A MURRIALITY, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2022. © Gordon Allan Hookey / Copyright Agency, 2022. Photograph by Jacqui Manning. Courtesy the artist, UNSW Galleries, Sydney and Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania
Plimsoll Gallery
5 June to 27 July 2025
Tasmania
