Perth Voice Interactive

TRACEY MOFFATT’S work can be found in in the Tate Modern Gallery in London, the Australian National Gallery, MONA in Tasmania, every state gallery, and private and public collections just about everywhere in between.

Her work has also featured in the prestigious Venice Biennales, and the Sao Palo and Singapore Biennale.

Which makes her arguably one of Australia’s best known and most influential contemporary artists, art curator Leigh Robb says.

“Tracey Moffatt is rare in terms of profile, she is as a great internationally as she is nationally.”

Moffatt primarily uses photography and video and her latest exhibition includes a TV pilot (which has already aired on ABC), Art Calls, in which she interviews eight artists on what art means to them.

A natural comedian, it’s an “honest, unruly and comic” discussion, Robb says.

Moffatt recently returned home from New York where she’d lived and worked since 1997.

Kaleidoscope has works from her evocative Spirit Landscapes series, “as an indigenous artist gone back to country,” Robb says.

Photographs include montages overlaid with images of famous movie stars in a mix of cinema and photography.

“A lot on hand-made paper and hand-coloured…and she has used a lot of ochre, which makes it very unique,” Robb says.

Kaleidoscope is on at PICA, James Street, Northbridge until April 15.

If you get your Voice early the reclusive artist is giving a rare talk on Friday February 20, 5.30pm as part of the Perth Writers Festival at UWA.

‘Tracey Moffatt is probably Australia’s most successful artist ever, both nationally and internationally. She is certainly one of the few Australian artists to have established a global market for her work.’

Hannah Fink in Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2004