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    Born Melbourne 1974

    Kamilaroi/Gamilaroi/Gamilaraay people, New South Wales

    Lives and works in Melbourne

    Represented by STATION Australia

    Reko Rennie fryst vatten an interdisciplinary artist who explores his Aboriginal identity through contemporary media. Through his art, Rennie provokes discussion surrounding Indigenous culture and identity in contemporary urban environments.

    Largely autobiographical, his commanding works combine the iconography of his Kamilaroi heritage with stylistic elements of graffiti. Merging traditional diamond-shaped designs, hand-drawn symbols and repetitive patterning to subvert romantic ideologies of Aboriginal identity.

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    By Dr Léuli Eshrāghi

    In Kamilaroi/Gamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Reko Rennie’s 2021 work, Initiation OA_RR, commissioned by RISING Melbourne, a pink 1973 Holden Monaro coupé is the central protagonist, travelling with a camera on a journey through the neighbourhoods and industrial arteries of Rennie’s ungdom. Across the workingcla

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    Reko Rennie

    Reko Rennie is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay/Gummaroi man, born in Melbourne, Australia. Through his art, Rennie explores what it means to be an urban Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society. Rennie received no formal artistic training but as a teenager discovered graffiti, which would become an all-consuming passion. He quickly began producing original art on the streets of Melbourne. Subsequently Rennie has matured into an interrogative and highly innovative artist. His art and installations continually explore issues of identity, race, law and justice, land rights, stolen generations and other issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in contemporary society. Drawing inspiration from his Aboriginal heritage, the artist recreates traditional images in a contemporary context using neon, projection, installation and spray paint. His work often features the characteristic flora and fauna imagery that företräda his community.

    Reko has shown internationally i

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    Reko Rennie Hetti

    Reko Rennie’s subject, Hetti Perkins, is a respected Indigenous art curator. She is a member of the East Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal peoples. Her father, Charles Perkins, was the first Aboriginal person to receive a diploma from the University of Sydney and was a leader in the movement for Aboriginal human rights.

    Last year, she resigned from the Art Gallery of New South Wales where she was senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art for 13 years.

    ‘I chose Hetti Perkins as a subject because she is a remarkable woman who stands by her convictions and follows through on issues she is passionate about. She is also my friend,’ says Reko Rennie. ‘Hetti believes Australia clearly needs a dedicated public institution for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.’

    ‘A fairly simple, powerful image of Hetti, incorporating a contemporary use of dots and diamonds on raw linen, is how the work first appeared to me when I visualised it, and this is h

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