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Vernon Ah Kee Vernon Ah Kee i(11339149 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 Innisfail, Innisfail area, Cardwell - Tully - Innisfail area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kuku-Yalanji ; Aboriginal Waanyi ; Aboriginal Yidiny / Yidindji ; Gugu Yimithirr
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'Aboriginal artist Vernon Ah Kee is a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. His multi-faceted practice includes works that range from large-scale drawings of his ancestors to hard-hitting text-based works and installations. Through clever puns and plays on words and objects Ah Kee fuses the history and language of colonisation with contemporary black/white political issues to expose degrees of underlying racism in Australian society.'

Source: Museum of Contemporary Art.

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