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Visible: Tony Albert gives familiar objects a new voice

Posted by Guest   ●   3 Jul 2018

Tony Albert’s largest ever solo exhibition is now at the Queensland Art Gallery, through his practice, writes Coby Edgar, Albert uses familiar objects and humour to render visible Australia’s uneasy colonial history. Tony Albert has obsessively collected what he calls ‘Aboriginalia’ since his childhood. His artistic practice involves collaborating, repurposing and reimagining popular culture paraphernalia, social…

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Tony Albert invites you to his new exhibition ‘Visible’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   30 May 2018

Contemporary Australian artist Tony Albert is back in Brisbane and invites you to his new exhibition which opens at the Queensland Art Gallery on Saturday 2 June. ‘Visible’ not only showcases major works from the last 15 years, it also includes new work not previously exhibited. Invisible is my favourite colour The title of the exhibition…

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‘We Can Be Heroes’ explores how we can empower ourselves

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   22 May 2018

Tony Albert, one of the most exciting young Indigenous Australian artists working today, presents his interactive exhibition ‘We Can Be Heroes’ at the Children’s Art Centre, GOMA. Starring the children of Warakurna – an Aboriginal community in Western Australia, near the border shared with the Northern Territory – he explores how we can empower ourselves by…

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