17.10.2013 — 15.02.2013
UQ Art Museum

National Artist's Self-portrait Prize

Archie Moore's Black Dog was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia in 2014, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. "Skin was an identifier of who I was and what status I held—not in the long gone birth right of a traditional ‘skin name’, but from racist slurs that we’ve all heard at some time and continue to hear today. The skin of Black Dog is preserved by taxidermy, filled with sawdust and old newspapers but also full of a history of racism and a feeling of being subhuman. The dog wasn’t black enough so it...
Archie Moore, Black Dog (full front)
Archie Moore, Black Dog (full side)
Archie Moore, Black Dog (full back)
Archie Moore, Black Dog (face and collar detail)