Archie Moore: Mīal

It is with pleasure that The Commercial presents Archie Moore — Mīal, a fractured self-portrait in the form of a series of 34 monochrome paintings relating to colours of the artist's body parts. Skin colour as a key signifier of identity and trigger for racism has been an ongoing theme in Moore’s work over two decades. His 100-part photographic self-portrait, Blood Fraction (2015), that recently featured in The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B. Du Bois, curated by José Da Silva at UNSW Galleries (2021), and earlier in Defying Empire: National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Tina Baum at National...