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  • Archie Moore, Family Tree, 2021, conté crayon and blackboard paint on MDF. Installation view. Photo: Zan Wimberley.

    Archie Moore, Family Tree, 2021, conté crayon and blackboard paint on MDF. Installation view. Photo: Zan Wimberley.

    Archie Moore

    UNSW Galleries

    The work of Archie Moore addresses the histories and politics of race. These themes are personal for the Brisbane-based artist, who was born in 1970—the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father—and brought up in a small Queensland town where racism was a fact of life. The artist’s recent show, “The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W. E. B Du Bois” was made in response to curator José Da Silva’s invitation to make a work in dialogue with the handmade data visualizations produced in the late 1890s under the guidance of African American writer, activist, and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois. These

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