Tracey Moffatt

(Australian, born 1960)

Tracey Moffatt is a contemporary Australian artist known for her photographs and films. With a variety of narrative techniques, including text, collage, and set design, Moffatt explore issues of childhood trauma, Aboriginal people, and popular Australian culture. In her series Up in the Sky (1997), the artist employs the aesthetic conventions of Italian Neo-Realist films to portrays scenes of an outback town in which there is some lurking violence. “My work is full of emotion and drama, you can get to that drama by using a narrative, and my narratives are usually very simple, but I twist it,” she has explained. “There is a storyline, but there isn’t a traditional beginning, middle, and end.” Born on November 12, 1960 in Brisbane, Australia, she went on to attend the Queensland College of Art where she received a BA in 1982. In 1989, the artist’s work first came to public attention with her seriesSomething More. Since then, Moffatt’s career has been peppered with achievements, including premiering her film Bedevil at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and representing Australia in the 2017 Venice Biennale with her work My Horizon. She currently lives and works between Sydney, Australia and New York, NY. Moffatt’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, among others.

Tracey Moffatt Artworks

Tracey Moffatt (518 results)
Something more no. 1, 1989

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Something more no. 1, 1989

Sale Date: November 15, 2006

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Laudanum, 1998

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Laudanum, 1998

Sale Date: October 27, 2006

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Untitled (from Laudanum), 1998

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Untitled (from Laudanum), 1998

Sale Date: November 1, 2006

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Untitled (from Laudanum), 1998

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Untitled (from Laudanum), 1998

Sale Date: November 1, 2006

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Doll birth, 1972

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Doll birth, 1972

Sale Date: September 19, 2006

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Piss bags, 1978

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Piss bags, 1978

Sale Date: September 19, 2006

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Useless 1974 (from Scarred for Life), 1994

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Useless 1974 (from Scarred for Life), 1994

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Laudanum, 1998

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Laudanum, 1998

Sale Date: June 19, 2006

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Fourth, 2001

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Fourth, 2001

Sale Date: June 19, 2006

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Scarred for life (9 works), 1994

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Scarred for life (9 works), 1994

Sale Date: May 10, 2006

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Something more no. 1, 1989

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Something more no. 1, 1989

Sale Date: April 26, 2006

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GUAPA - Good looking (10 works), 1995

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GUAPA - Good looking (10 works), 1995

Sale Date: April 25, 2006

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Untitled (from Something More), 1989

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Untitled (from Something More), 1989

Sale Date: April 11, 2006

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Laudanum, 1998

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Laudanum, 1998

Sale Date: March 19, 2006

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Birth certificate (from Scarred for Life), 1994

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Birth certificate (from Scarred for Life), 1994

Sale Date: March 14, 2006

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Up in the sky, 1997

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Up in the sky, 1997

Sale Date: March 22, 2006

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Beauty in mulberry, 1997

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Beauty in mulberry, 1997

Sale Date: December 17, 2005

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Something more # 2, 1989

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Something more # 2, 1989

Sale Date: December 17, 2005

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Fourth #5, 2001

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Fourth #5, 2001

Sale Date: December 17, 2005

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Fourth #26, 2001

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Fourth #26, 2001

Sale Date: December 17, 2005

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Scarred for life (set of 9), 1994

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Scarred for life (set of 9), 1994

Sale Date: December 5, 2005

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Backyard series (10 works), 1999

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Backyard series (10 works), 1999

Sale Date: October 25, 2005

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Fourth, 2001

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Fourth, 2001

Sale Date: October 25, 2005

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Charm alone (from Scarred for Life), 1995

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Charm alone (from Scarred for Life), 1995

Sale Date: November 12, 2005

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