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Vernon Ah Kee’s work has been exhibited widely
in Australia including at the Queensland College of Art Gallery and the
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the Monash University Museum of
Art, Melbourne. He is represented by Bellas Gallery, Brisbane. Vernon’s
work deals with black/white politics in Australia, frequently using language
and text as an aesthetic medium to communicate his ideas. By manipulating
the visual and semantic properties of text, he produces new, often sharply
ironic meanings which offer a powerful and sustained commentary on the
history of Aboriginal dispossession, and contemporary Australian racism.
His background in drawing and screen printing is an important influence
on these works.
Vernon completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours)
at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 2000. He
is currently completing
his Doctorate of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art, where
he is Associate Lecturer in the Bachelor of Visual Arts in Contemporary
Australian Indigenous Art. His academic interests include Aboriginal
identity, education and art; intellectual property issues, and native
title. Vernon was born in North Queensland and has been living in Brisbane
since the early 1990s.
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ifiam 2002
synthetic polymer paint and vinyl on board
122.3 x 182.8 cm
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theotherside, 2003
synthetic polymer paint and vinyl on board
122.3 x 182.8 cm |
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