Born in Toowoomba, Queensland in 1970, Archie Moore is a Kamilaroi and Bigambul man with British and Scottish heritage. Moore’s conceptual practice encompasses a range of media, including installation, sculpture and photography. Tracing personal memory and familial histories, Moore interrogates identity through the politics of skin, language revival, notions of home and genealogy. A throughline in his work over three decades is the legacy of colonisation and its ongoing impact on First Nations peoples.
Moore completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology in 1998 and in 2018 received the Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni award. He undertook further study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with the assistance of the 2001 Millennial Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.
His work was included in the 20th Biennale of Sydney in 2016, and in 2018 Griffith University Art Museum presented the solo exhibition, Archie Moore 1970–2018. In the same year Moore undertook the major public art commission, United Neytions, a partnership between the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Sydney Airport. The 28 large flags now installed at Sydney Airport’s International Terminal respond to the codified representations of identity and nationhood, and the way national histories can be built upon falsehoods.
In April 2024 Moore became the first Australian artist to win the Venice Biennale’s prestigious Golden Lion award for best national participation for his solo presentation in the Australia Pavilion, kith and kin, in which he continues his deep work on language revival, identity and familial connections.
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