Researching Gordon Hookey
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The name Gordon means "from the cornered hill" and is of English origin.
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Some Famous People called Gordon Hookey
Gordon Hookey
alt=Gordon Hookey in his studio, photographed by Thomas Oliver|thumb|Hookey in his studio
Gordon Hookey (born 1961 Cloncurry) is an Australian aboriginal artist from the Waanyi people. 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.
Hookey is a core member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous collective proppaNOW.
Hookey has been exhibited in the Sydney Biennale with Paranoia Annoy Ya. 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.
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