26.09.2025
Coverage of Archie Moore: kith and kin at QAGOMA in The Guardian. 'It's important to have it here': Archie Moore's astonishing Venice Biennale-winning artwork comes home to Brisbane'.
06.09.2025
Following its exhibition in the Australia Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Archie Moore's Golden Lion winning installation, kith and kin, will be on exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 27.08.25 - 18.10.26. The year-long exhibition will be accompanied by a re-print of the Venice catalogue, available from QAGOMA Store.
23.05.2025
In 2024, the National Portrait Gallery acquired Archie Moore's series of 34 monochrome self-portraits, Mīal — a Bigambul word meaning “Aboriginal man”. After being exhibited in Canberra last year, this important body of work is going on a regional tour commencing at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery (31.05. 25–03.08.25) and then to Redcliffe Art Gallery (16.08.25–08.11.25), Tweed Regional Gallery (27.02.26–20.09.26), Artspace Mackay (27.06.26–20.09.26) and Hervey Bay Regional Gallery (10.10.26–13.12.26).
21.10.2024
Opening tonight in Adelaide: Archie Moore — Dwelling: Adelaide Issue | Adelaide Film Festival / Samstag Moving Image Commission Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia | 5.30 — 7.30pm | exhibition until 29.11.24. Archie Moore’s ambitious new large-scale installation work, Dwelling: Adelaide Issue, is the thirteenth AFF & Samstag Art Moving Image Commission and the fifth iteration of Moore’s installation Dwelling, in which he recreates the mise-en-scene of his childhood home this time with a significant new moving image component. This ongoing investigation of memory and the effect of colonisation draws on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements.
05.10.2024
Congratulations to Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose for being jointly awarded the 2024 QAGOMA Medal for their landmark achievement at the Venice Biennale 2024. The medals were announced at the QAGOMA Foundation dinner in Brisbane 05.10.24.
18.08.2024
The Australian Government has acquired Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Commissioned by Creative Australia and curated by Ellie Buttrose, it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2024. kith and kin is being acquired by the Australian Government to be gifted to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane who, along with their acquisition partner Tate, London, will see two of the world’s leading art museums ensure its enduring legacy on the global stage. The joint custodianship maps geographically Moore's matrilineal (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) and patrilineal (English/Scottish) kinship. The acquisition/donation was announced last night at the National Gallery of Australia at an event attended by the Australian Prime Minister, Federal Minister for the Arts and Governor-General.