Artist story/ Keith Wikmunea 'Theewith Yot. A! | Lots of White Cockatoo' 2024

Keith Wikmunea paints & installs his artwork 'Theewith Yot. A! | Lots of White Cockatoo' at QAGOMA. These seven characterful white theewith (cockatoos) sit atop a yuk thanchal (milkwood tree). Theewith are significant to Wikmunea as they are his puulwuy (father’s totem). Keith Wikmunea, Wik-Mungkan/Wik-Alkan people, Queensland Australia b.1967 Theewith Yot. A! | Lots of White Cockatoo 2024 Natural earth pigments with synthetic binders on carved milkwood 250 x 170.7 x 80cm Purchased 2024 with funds from the Bequest of Noela Clare Deutscher, in memory of her parents, A Evans Deutscher and Clare Deutscher, through the QAGOMA Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art © Keith Wikmunea Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia © Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2026 https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au #qagoma