Archie Moore: Comic Paintings (2005)

It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents an exhibition of Archie Moore’s Comic Paintings (2005). On loan from a private collection, the Comic Paintings have not been seen for almost 20 years. They are an important body of work in the context of Moore’s wider practice, dealing with the same themes though in a distinctly different format to anything he has done since. In 2005, aged 34, Archie Moore undertook a five-week NEWflames residency for emerging First Nations artists, an initiative of the Campfire Group, downstairs at FireWorks Gallery in Brisbane. The outcome was a series of seven...