Background
Albert was born in 1981 in Townsville, North Queensland.
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Tony Albert
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In 2004 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, with a degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Artist
Career
His work engages with political, historical and cultural Aboriginal and Australian history, and his fascination with kitsch “Aboriginalia". Albert"s family is from Cardwell, Queensland and he is a descendant of the Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku-Yalanji peoples. ProppaNOW also included artists Richard Bell, Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee, Fiona Foley, Bianca Beetson, Andrea Fisher.
Albert"s work has been the subject of nine solo exhibitions and over fifty group exhibitions.
Achievements
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In 2014 Albert won first prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award with his work We can be Heroes, prompted by the 2012 shooting by police of two Aboriginal teenagers in Kings Cross. Albert"s was the first photographic work to win the prize. In 2013 Albert was commissioned by the City of Sydney to create Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall, a public work for Hyde Park, Sydney. The work serves as a memorial to Aboriginal military history and features four large upright bullets and shell casings.
Membership
Tony Albert was a founding member of the urban-based Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW founded in 2004.
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