Kith and kin is a vast installation featuring a genealogical chart capturing artist Archie Moore’s First Nations Australian and convict British and Scottish connections spanning more than 65,000 years.
The much-anticipated Australian debut at QAGOMA won the prestigious Golden Lion Award for Best National Participation at La Biennale de Venezia in 2024.
The installation offers an extraordinary image of human connection through time.
It took several weeks for Moore (of Kamilaroi and Bigambul heritage) and a team of installers to hand-draw the ancestral map in chalk across a large expanse of four walls in a stand-alone room.
The work also confronts the ongoing legacy of Australia’s colonial history and the over-incarceration of First-Nations people, with a collection of coronial reports on deaths in custody suspended above a memorial pool in the centre of the room.
The installation will run until October 18, 2025 before it is shared with the UK’s Tate Gallery.
