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  • Archie Moore, Dwelling (Victorian Issue), 2022, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Gertrude Preston.

    Archie Moore, Dwelling (Victorian Issue), 2022, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Gertrude Preston.

    Archie Moore

    Gertrude Contemporary/Queensland Art Gallery

    Since 2010, Archie Moore has been creating versions of his childhood home in Tara, west Queensland, as immersive total installations. Dwelling (Victorian Issue), 2022, was the fourth such reconstruction. Each iteration morphs slightly, expanding or contracting to fit the footprint of a given gallery. At Gertrude Contemporary, viewers pushed through glass-paneled vintage doors to enter a dimly lit lounge room with 1970s television shows blaring from a boxy set. The kitchen featured an old Kelvinator fridge and a Laminex table on which lay a tin of biscuits, a kitschy Indigenous doll, and some

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