Recognized for his unapologetic explorations of the mistreatment of Aboriginal people, this exhibition called ill-like was composed of imposing textual works, disappearing line drawings from a series titled unwritten, and a new body of work the artist calls lynchings that premiered in this exhibition. Ah Kee’s textworks, applied in vinyl directly on the wall, are poignant, witty, or confrontational phrases in which the words and lines run together without spacing. These politically specific messages address various manifestations of the current and historical treatment of Aboriginal people, while the format references the language of mainstream media that often excludes Aboriginal voices. The Unwritten works are drawings of undeveloped heads or faces, and it is unclear whether they are beginning to appear, or beginning to disappear, from the lines that create them. The title of the exhibition ill-like is extracted from a textwork that reads: “the aborigine / if he be well / he then we must make ill / and if ill the aborigine / we cannot make / he then we must / make ill-like.” This exhibition was presented in partnership with Milani Gallery and the Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency.