Vernon Ah Kee
Vernon Ah Kee is a Brisbane-based artist at the forefront of conceptual art practice in Australia.
Vernon Ah Kee is a descendant of the Kuku Yalanji, Yidinyji and Guugu Yimithirr people of north Queensland. He also has kinship connections to the Waanyi people of north-west Queensland.
Vernon Ah Kee is attuned to the politics of representation, and the social and economic implications of unequal cultural exchange in Australia. He draws on ethnographic archives to challenge colonial legacies and to engage audiences with the strong and continuing presence of Aboriginal Australians, their histories, and their cultures. Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces reposition the Aboriginal in Australia from an ‘othered thing’, anchored in museum and scientific records to a contemporary people inhabiting real and current spaces and time.
Ah Kee’s work is held in major art collections within Australia and overseas including the Tate Modern, London.
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