Tony Albert

Tony Albert is a contemporary Australian artist that works with painting, photography and mixed media. His work engages with the and historical issues of Australia and the Aboriginal culture. He also has a fascination with the kitsch.

In Headhunter Albert uses objects that he had been collecting over several yeas and makes the text an essential part of the work. Albert portrays the racism found within Australia's past and puts emphasis on the commodification of the Aboriginal people.

Sorry is another work by Albert that utilises text.This work commemorates the famous apology that Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister, gave to Indigenous Australians. This was an apology for the mistreatment and suffering from the Australian Government towards them in the past. Albert believes that the government offers many broken promises and  portrays this with the use of the kitsch faces in the piece. Albert only takes this apology at face value, until real change is observed. 

A Collected History by Albert uses a collection of Aboriginalia. This is a term that he uses to describe objects that feature the kitschness of some portrayals of Aboriginal culture. Albert refashions Aboriginal history and interrogates the naive nature of the images he uses.