The 52-year-old Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist, who uses smell to evoke memory and explores racism and national identity through flags, will represent Australia at the 2024 biennale
His 2022 work Inert State involved 200 redacted coroner’s reports detailing the death of an Indigenous person in custody being scattered in a pool in Queensland Art Gallery, all dating since 2008, the year prime minister Kevin Rudd issued his apology to the stolen generations.
For the 2013 National Artists’ Self Portrait prize he submitted a taxidermied dog painted with boot polish; Black Dog was a commentary on racial abuse, skin colour, mental illness and dispossession. “Skin was an identifier of who I was and what status I held – not in the long-gone birthright of a traditional ‘skin name’, but from racist slurs that we’ve all heard at some time and continue to hear today,” Moore said at the time.
Queensland Art Gallery’s curator of contemporary Australian art, Ellie Buttrose, will curate Moore’s work at the Biennale. She described Moore as “singular in his ability to engage audiences on an emotional level through memories and familial stories in artworks that stimulate discussion about how we bear the responsibility for social change”.
The pavilion will be on display from 20 April until 24 November 2024, marking Australia’s 25th year participating in the biennale.
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