IMA PodcastVernon Ah Kee and Bruce Maclean: In Conversation

Vernon Ah Kee and Bruce Maclean

In Conversation

18 June 2015

Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings form a critique of Australian culture from the perspective of the Aboriginal experience of contemporary life. He represented Australia in Once Removed at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Ideas of Barack, 2011, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Tall Man at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne in 2011, the Indigenous Triennale National Gallery of Australia and Everything Falls Apart at Artspace in 2012. In 2013, Ah Kee exhibited in Sakahan at the National Gallery of Canada, and 2014, he  was awarded the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, as well as being announced as a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow. In 2015, Ah Kee will exhibit a new body of work at the Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

McLean is a member of the Wierdi people of the Birri Gubba Nation of Wribpid, Central Queensland. He has curated exhibitions for QAGOMA including, and has been a part of the curatorial team for the Asia Pacific Triennial and Contemporary Australia series. McLean is co-curator of the upcoming exhibition GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art.

From the Event

Bruce McLean with Vernon Ah Kee

In Conversation

18 June 2015

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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