{"id":221957,"date":"2018-11-07T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=221957"},"modified":"2020-06-24T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:45:01","slug":"niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Niketa “Yungi” Law with her work “Aboriginality” … “Art is my voice; it is how I best express myself”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 8, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.<\/p>\n

Cherbourg artist Niketa Law unveiled a gallery full of artworks – including a surfboard! – that she has created over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

“Yungi – First Collection” is Niketa’s first exhibition and family and friends travelled far to congratulate her.<\/p>\n

“The 36 pieces are basically me on show before you, which was a bit daunting at first,” Niketa told the crowd.<\/p>\n

She said having an exhibition had always been a dream of hers, but she admitted she was amazed she had accomplished all these in under 12 months.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was opened by former Murgon teacher Wendy Exelby – now a close friend of Niketa – who enrolled her 18 years ago at Murgon State High School.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She shared some stories about these school days which demonstrated that Niketa had always had a strong inner voice and had been “itching for her voice to be heard”.<\/p>\n

“At school, she wanted to be a writer; it’s only in the last decade that she has seen herself as an artist,” Wendy said.<\/p>\n

She said the exhibition provided a rare insight into the artist.<\/p>\n

Niketa’s father, Wakka Wakka Elder Eric Law AM, did the Welcome To Country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My ancestors would be pleased with what they see here,” Uncle Eric said. “Niketa is trying to bring the ancient times into the 21st century.”<\/p>\n

Niketa, who works at St Mary’s Catholic College, said her art “felt like home”.<\/p>\n

“It is my voice,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It was important for my first exhibition to be on the country of my ancestors.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Wendy Exelby shared some stories from Niketa’s school days while opening the exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Niketa’s father, Wakka Wakka Elder Eric Law, AM, with his old footballing mate, “Skippy” Exelby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Niketa’s sister Patricia Pedro travelled down from Thursday Island to be at the opening … Patricia is pictured with her daughter Ryanjade, right, 4; and Lakeisha Skeen, 4, from Murgon, left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Proud mum Shirley Law with Sue Domic, from Rockhampton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Former St Mary’s deputy principal Sean Erwin, his wife Amanda and sons Nicholas, 14; and Samuel, 12; returned to Kingaroy to congratulate Niketa on her work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Cr Alana Purcell and Cr Danita Potter were representing Cherbourg and South Burnett councils at the opening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Special guests at the opening were Brigidine College Indooroopilly Deputy Principal (Mission) Andrew Beiers and Year 11 students Taliah Saylor, from Erub Island; and Vaikarna McLennan, a Kuku Yalani \/ Jannga woman from North Queensland … Niketa completed a special painting for the school which featured St Brigid’s Cross, the school’s motto and House colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Some of the large crowd mingling at the Kingaroy Art Gallery opening on Saturday morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":221958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[863,16,3],"tags":[23],"yoast_head":"\nNiketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-07T12:21:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-24T06:45:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181103niketa1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/\",\"name\":\"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-07T12:21:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-24T06:45:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"description\":\"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2018-11-07T12:21:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-06-24T06:45:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":385,"url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181103niketa1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/","name":"Niketa Makes A Spectacular Debut - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-11-07T12:21:21+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-24T06:45:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"description":"Kingaroy Art Gallery was buzzing on Saturday morning with one of the biggest crowds seen at an exhibition opening at the venue for years.","inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/07\/niketa-makes-a-spectacular-debut\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260467,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions\/260467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}