Archie Moore

Archie Moore (born 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian multimedia artist. His installation kith and kin was exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale winning the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Early life and education Archie Moore was born in 1970 at Toowoomba, Queensland. He is a Kamilaroi/Bigambul man, with an Aboriginal mother and a father of British descent.

In 1998 he graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.

Art practice Moore's work explores autobiographical themes, including exploration of his Aboriginal identity (looking at skin, language, smell, home, genealogy, flags), as well as Australian history. He examines understanding and misunderstanding between cultures, and racism. He works in many media.

Career highlights His 2016 installation A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut), commissioned for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, is a full-scale replica of the small brick hut built for Wangal man Woollarawarre Bennelong in 1790 during the early years of the colonisation of Australia. Inside is a replica of his maternal grandmother Vera's home, with corrugated iron walls and a dirt floor.

In 2021, his Family Tree, a family tree drawn on a square piece of MDF using a white conté crayon and blackboard paint, was displayed in the solo exhibition entitled The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B. Du Bois at UNSW Galleries. The work includes many traditional Aboriginal names along with anglicised, derogatory, or other names assigned to Indigenous Australian people. Moore is only the second Indigenous artist to solo-represent Australia in the event, His work, entitled August 19, 2024, comprises another huge family tree drawn in chalk, mapping over 2,400 generations, as well as 19 documents relating to members of the artist's family who had come into contact with former policies. These include reports by the Queensland Protector of Aboriginals, who would not grant exemption to Moore's grandparents from the restrictive Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, that controlled the movements, financial control, and the right to marry of Aboriginal people. On 19 August 2024 it was announced that kith and kin had been jointly acquired by the Australian Government for Queensland Art Gallery and the Tate in the U.K. Because of its size, kith and kin was acquired as a set of artist instructions rather than the physical installation, so it can co-exist at both Tate and Queensland Art Gallery without incurring any additional shipping, conservation, or storage costs.

Other work In May 2026, Moore's work Remnants of My Father, in which remnants relating to his father's life are set in gold, was displayed in the Adelaide Biennial in the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

Music Moore is also lead singer in a metal band called Eggvein (rendered Σgg√e|n), adopting the stage name stage name Magnus O'Pus. 2026: Remnants of My Father selected for Adelaide Biennale: Yield Strength curated by Ellie Buttrose