Join Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie and NGV Senior Curator of First Nations Art, Dr Jessica Clark for a short artist talk discussing the inspiration and process behind Rennie’s mural-scale and multi-panel work Initiation, 2013 on display in exhibition Wurrdha Marra.
About the artist
Reko Rennie is 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.
