The Kamilaroi and Bigambul man is only the second solo Indigenous artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Archie Moore. The Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist, 53, will represent Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale – making him only the second solo First Nations artist to take over the pavilion at the world’s oldest contemporary art exhibition.
Very scant. My father was an earth-mover: he drove bulldozers and graders, making rows and dams, clearing land. My mother was on the pension. She only had a few years of school, so she wasn’t really able to work in many jobs. We didn’t have much money. We lived in a house that had holes in it: it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I remember eating white bread broken up in milk with white sugar when we had no money.
In the many decades of Australia’s participation at the Venice Biennale, only Tracey Moffatt – in 2017 – has exhibited solo as a First Nations artist before now. What’s it like being the second?
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