Archie Moore Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1970 -

Archie Moore (Born 1970, Toowoomba, lives Brisbane, Kamilaroi) works across media in portrayals of self and national histories. His ongoing interests include key signifiers of identity – skin, language, smell, home, flags – as well as the borders of intercultural understanding and misunderstanding, including the wider concerns of racism. Uncertainty is an ongoing theme pertaining to his paternity and Kamilaroi heritage.

In 2018, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, presented a solo exhibition, Archie Moore 1970 - 2018, curated by Angela Goddard, former Curator Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. This major exhibition was the largest solo exhibition of Moore's work to date and the first solo exhibition to be presented by a public institution. A 72 page catalogue with newly commissioned essays and interviews by Archie Moore, Angela Goddard, Toni Ross and Steve Dow is available for purchase from Griffith University Art Museum.

Commissioned as part of a partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Archie Moore has created a permanent flag installation, United Neytions, for the T1 International Terminal at Sydney Airport. The 28 4.5 metre long flags hang from a stainless steel frame (17 x 20 metres) for the pleasure of travellers departing Sydney for overseas. Moore's flag designs are 'fake flags for false nations' based on the erroneously-identified Aboriginal national borders depicted on a map published in 1900 by lay anthropologist and surveyor, R.H. Mathews.

Moore completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology in 1998. He was awarded the 2018 Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award by Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. In 2001, he was awarded the Millennial Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has held regular solo exhibitions of his work for two decades in university, not-for-profit and commercial galleries in most states of Australia as well as being invited to present solo and two-person shows in the UK and Japan.

In 2018, Moore presented a work made from decommissioned volumes of Hansard at Australian Parliament House, Canberra, for the group exhibition Boundless Volumes.

Moore’s catalogue of group exhibitions includes key presentations in major biennials and museum exhibitions including: Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Tina Baum, at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2017). Moore’s major presentation of work in Defying Empire was drawn from recent acquisitions of his work by the National Gallery of Australia; The National: New Australian Art (2017), co-presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia where Moore presented his 28 flag installation, United Neytions; the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016) curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, in which Moore recreated in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens a 1:1 scale replica of Woollarawarre Bennelong’s brick hut built for him by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1790. The inside of the hut, with dirt floor and lined with rusted corrugated iron, was an approximation of Moore’s grandmother’s (Vera’s) house in late 20th Century rural Queensland. Moore was assisted on the project by prominent indigenous architect, Kevin O'Brien; TARNANTHI - Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Adelaide (significant solo presentations within the Festival in both 2017 and 2015).