TONY ALBERT
Beam Me Up, 2024
installation view, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
Beam Me Up, 2024
installation view, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
Story, Place , 2023
appropriated found vintage objects, 200 x 400 cm
Unpacking History: A Native Australian Bouquet for New York
Commissioned for Global Positioning
Jan 26, 2022 - Jun 5, 2022 JCDecaux bus shelters: New York City, Chicago, and Boston
Conversations with Preston: Christmas Bells, 2020
acrylic and vintage appropriated fabric on canvas
300cm x 400cm
Collection National Gallery of Australia
Photo2024 international photography festival, Melbourne VIC
History Repeats, 2022
found vintage kitsch objects and timber
120cm x 300cm 2022
found vintage kitsch objects and timber
River of Tears III, 2024
appropriated found vintage object with collage, 30 x 22 cm
River of tears, 2024
appropriated found vintage object, 20 x 14.5 cm
Valley Walkabout , 2022 Architectural Projection Commissioned by Outer Space Judith Wright Facade, installation view
Brothers (The Prodigal Son)
2020
glass, lead, photographic decal, steel, stone
180 x 60cm
Two Worlds Colliding: Water & Land
Sydney Football Stadium, 2022 (artist render)
Commissioned by Infrastructure NSW and curated by Cultural Capital
Mid Century Modern, Installation View, 2016, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney 2016
Illumination caption: Tony Albert (Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku Yalanji peoples) Brothers (Unalienable) 2015 (detail), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2016. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
Brother (Our Future) 2013
Pigment print on paper
150 x 100 cm, Edition of 3 + 2APs
Brother (Our Present) 2013
pigment print on paper
150x100cm edition of 3+2APs
Brothers (Detail) 2013
acrylic and gloss medium on pigment print mounted to aluminium
210 x 280 cm
The Hand You're Dealt 2016
Vintage Aboriginal playing cards
Dimensions variable
2017
archival pigment print on paper
100 x 150 cm
Tony Albert, David C Collins and Brittany Malbunka Reid
Warakurna Superheroes #6, 2017
archival pigment print on paper
100 x 150 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
2017
archival pigment print on paper
100 x 150 cm
Installation view of 'Tony Albert: Visible' at the Queensland Art Gllery, featuring exotic OTHER (2009/2018). Photography: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA.
Sorry, 2008
Appropriated vintage object applied to vinyl, 200 x 510
Collection Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Installation view of 'Tony Albert: Visible' at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.
TONY ALBERT
VISIBLE
5 JUN 2018 – 7 OCT 2018
QAG | GALLERY 4 | FREE
‘Visible’ surveys the work of Tony Albert, one of the most exciting young Indigenous Australian artists working today. All aspects of his practice — from object-based assemblages, to painting, photography, video and installation — provide a powerful response to the misrepresentation of Australia’s First Peoples in popular and collectible imagery.
The title of the exhibition ‘Visible’, speaks to one of Albert’s often used quotes ‘Invisible is my favourite colour’, a response which frames the exhibition. The exhibition interrogates representations of Aboriginal people through a mix of humour and poignancy, while tackling issues of race and representation head-on, and includes the artist’s epic appropriations and re-appropriations of kitsch ‘Aboriginalia’.
Developed in collaboration with Albert’s ‘We Can Be Heroes’ project at the Children’s Art Centre, which invites kids and families to explore how we can all be empowered by overcoming our fears.
Yininmadyemi Thou Didst Let Fall, 2015
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney NSW
Commissioned by the City of Sydney
Road Runner 2013
acrylic on canvas
213.5 x 152.5 cm
Confetti culture (dollar signs) 2019
acrylic on canvas
180 cm
A Collected History 2010
Mixed media
240 x 600 cm
Beam Me Up, 2024 installation view, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
Beam Me Up, 2024 installation view, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
Story, Place , 2023 appropriated found vintage objects, 200 x 400 cm
Unpacking History: A Native Australian Bouquet for New York Commissioned for Global Positioning Jan 26, 2022 - Jun 5, 2022 JCDecaux bus shelters: New York City, Chicago, and Boston
Conversations with Preston: Christmas Bells, 2020 acrylic and vintage appropriated fabric on canvas 300cm x 400cm Collection National Gallery of Australia
Photo2024 international photography festival, Melbourne VIC
History Repeats, 2022 found vintage kitsch objects and timber 120cm x 300cm
River of Tears III, 2024 appropriated found vintage object with collage, 30 x 22 cm
River of tears, 2024 appropriated found vintage object, 20 x 14.5 cm
Valley Walkabout , 2022 Architectural Projection Commissioned by Outer Space Judith Wright Facade, installation view
Brothers (The Prodigal Son)
Brothers (The Prodigal Son)
Two Worlds Colliding: Water & Land Sydney Football Stadium, 2022 (artist render) Commissioned by Infrastructure NSW and curated by Cultural Capital
Mid Century Modern, Installation View, 2016, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
Illumination caption: Tony Albert (Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku Yalanji peoples) Brothers (Unalienable) 2015 (detail), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2016. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
Brother (Our Future)
Brother (Our Present)
Brothers (Detail)
The Hand You're Dealt
Tony Albert, David C Collins and Brittany Malbunka Reid Warakurna Superheroes #6, 2017 archival pigment print on paper 100 x 150 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Installation view of 'Tony Albert: Visible' at the Queensland Art Gllery, featuring exotic OTHER (2009/2018). Photography: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA.
Sorry, 2008 Appropriated vintage object applied to vinyl, 200 x 510 Collection Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Installation view of 'Tony Albert: Visible' at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.
Ash on Me, 2009 Appropriated vintage object applied to vinyl 150 x 150cm Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra