When Reko Rennie was a young boy, his mother would take him to free cultural institutions around Melbourne, including the National Gallery of Victoria. There, he fell in love with art. “I’d spend hours in these places as a kid,” he says. “That stayed with me for a long time. When I got older, I was like, ‘Fuck, this is what I really want to do.’”
Decades later, the self-taught Kamilaroi artist’s dream is coming true with Rekospective, a major exhibition at the NGV’s Ian Potter Centre charting the last two decades of his prolific, multidisciplinary career. Among more than 100 works are early stencils, sculptural installations, multi-channel videos and neon wall pieces.
