Indigenous Curator Shannon Brett sat down with Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey earlier this year on Yuggera Country (Brisbane), ahead of his exhibition at UNSW Galleries, A MURRIALITY, which opened this past week.
A MURRIALITY is an exhibition that offers perspectives on historical and contemporary issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across three decades of artmaking and activism. To do so, Hookey turns to punchy text, biting satire and popular culture – aka image-based graphic or comic narrative traditions – often taking the protest placard into the gallery environment.
