‘It’s important to have it here’: Archie Moore’s astonishing Venice Biennale-winning artwork comes home to Brisbane

<p>The Bigambul-Kamilaroi artist’s monumental installation, featuring a family tree stretching 65,000 years and a memorial to Indigenous deaths in custody, opens in his home state after making history overseas</p><p><strong>WARNING:</strong> <strong>Contains distressing and offensive content</strong></p><p>In a darkened room, I squint to read the blurred typeface of a newspaper article that makes my stomach lurch.</p><p>It tells of a station owner who set a trap for a group of Aboriginal people by filling a cannon with powder and broken bottles and leaving it near a bullock carcass.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/26/archie-moore-venice-biennale-winning-artwork-family-tree-memorial-to-aboriginal-deaths-brisbane">Continue reading...</a>