Vernon Ah Kee

(born 1967)

WEGREWHERE, 2007 - 09 (#1 – 5)

suite of five digital prints on Fujiflex paper

76.0 x 136.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 140.0 cm (frame) (1)
76.0 x 114.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 118.0 cm (frame) (2)
114.0 x 76.0 cm (image), 118.0 x 80.0 cm (frame) (3)
114.0 x 76.0 cm (image), 118.0 x 80.0 cm (frame) (4)
76.0 x 114.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 118.0 cm (frame) (5)

edition: 6/6

Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 16

Vernon Ah Kee

WEGREWHERE

, 2007 - 09 (#1 – 5)

lot details

Vernon Ah Kee (born 1967)
WEGREWHERE, 2007 - 09 (#1 – 5)
suite of five digital prints on Fujiflex paper
76.0 x 136.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 140.0 cm (frame) (1)
76.0 x 114.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 118.0 cm (frame) (2)
114.0 x 76.0 cm (image), 118.0 x 80.0 cm (frame) (3)
114.0 x 76.0 cm (image), 118.0 x 80.0 cm (frame) (4)
76.0 x 114.0 cm (image), 80.0 x 118.0 cm (frame) (5)
edition: 6/6
Provenance

Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in July 2012
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, October 2013 – November 2020

Exhibited

Because it’s Bitter, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, 9 – 27 July 2009 (other examples)
Cantchant, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 8 December – 2 February 2007 and touring (other examples)
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 August – 30 October 2016 (#2 and #3)
Cantchant, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, USA, 19 November 2016 – 12 March 2017 (other examples)

Literature

Craig, G., and Presley, R., Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, pp. 48 (illus.), 49, 51 (illus.), 90

Related Works

Can’t chant (wegrewhere) 2007-2009, video, exhibited 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009
A full set of this series is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra