2. Bauble by KEEMON WILLIAMS

Keemon Williams, PLA & Acrylic, L 11.5cm, W 8cm, D 8cm.

Keemon Williams (b. 1999) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and curator of Koa, Kuku Yalanji and Meriam Mir descent and based in Magandjin / Meanjin (Brisbane). 

Keemon is an exceptional artist, and we were honoured to showcase his work as part of the Aboriginal Art Co exhibition booth at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2024. With a bright career ahead, this is a unique opportunity to acquire one of his smaller works before his career skyrockets.

Keemon utilises a diverse range of mediums and performative elements to interrogate the relationships between location, personal histories and the manifestation of culture in a postcolonial world. His practice seeks to critically examine facets of his identity and its intrinsic tethering to the wider context of being “Australian.” Responding to realms of space and time, cultural production and psuedo-ethnic representations, Keemon views culture as an alloy, to be forged and adapted to find belonging within and beyond the self. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from QUT, where he received the Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship for Visual Art, and was selected for the 2020 edition of Hatched National Graduate Exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Keemon is also a founding member of ANTHEM ARI, an independent group dedicated to the celebration of BIPOC voices in the arts.