Tony Albert Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Tony Albert Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 12, 2024
TONY ALBERT, DECK OF CARDS (2 PARTS), 2008-2013
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TONY ALBERT 1981- DECK OF CARDS (2 PARTS), 2008-2013 marker and collage on paper 29 x 22 cm each; 46 x 60 cm (framed) signed verso 'tony ALBERT' PROVENANCE Conceptio Art, NZ Private Collection, UK ©Tony Albert / Copyright Agency, 2024 Tony Albert, a descendant of the Girramay, Yidinji, and Kuku-Yalanji peoples, was born in Townsville, North Queensland. He graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW, which included artists Richard Bell, Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee, Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albert’s techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Indigenous aesthetics in favour of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australia’s Indigenous peoples. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
Nov. 12, 2024
TONY ALBERT, MY PALETTE (2 PARTS), 2008-2013
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TONY ALBERT 1981- MY PALETTE (2 PARTS), 2008-2013 Ink, marker, watercolor and mixed media collage on paper 29 x 22 cm each; 46 x 60 cm (framed) signed verso 'tony ALBERT' PROVENANCE Conceptio Art, NZ Private Collection, UK ©Tony Albert / Copyright Agency, 2024 Tony Albert, a descendant of the Girramay, Yidinji, and Kuku-Yalanji peoples, was born in Townsville, North Queensland. He graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW, which included artists Richard Bell, Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee, Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albert’s techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Indigenous aesthetics in favour of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australia’s Indigenous peoples. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
Jun. 30, 2024
TONY ALBERT, ASHTRALIA #10, 2023
Est: $2,500 - $3,000
TONY ALBERT born 1981 ASHTRALIA #10, 2023 pigment print on paper 52.0 x 77.0 cm (frame) edition: 1/5 donated by the artist DESCRIPTION The practice of multidisciplinary artist Tony Albert deals primarily with the cultural misrepresentation of Aboriginal people. In 2006, he joined with fellow activist-artists Richard Bell and Vernon Ah Kee to found the Brisbane based collective proppaNOW. He is the Indigenous Trustee at the Art Gallery of NSW and this year became the inaugural First Nations Curatorial Fellow at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency 2024 This work is located at NCIE | 166 – 180 George St, Redfern, New South Wales, 2016
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 28, 2023
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #125 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25 x 20cm
Est: $400 - $500
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #125 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25 x 20cm PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency, 2023
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2023
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #68 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25.5 x 20cm
Est: $400 - $500
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #68 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25.5 x 20cm PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency, 2023
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2023
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #81 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25.5 x 20cm
Est: $400 - $500
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Studio Study #81 2021 synthetic polymer paint and vintage materials on canvasboard 25.5 x 20cm PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency, 2023
Leonard Joel
Jun. 20, 2023
Tony Albert - Am I, Are You, Are We, 2013
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Tony Albert, a descendant of the Girramay, Yidinji, and Kuku-Yalanji peoples, was born in Townsville, North Queensland. He graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW, which included artists Richard Bell, Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee, Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albert’s techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Indigenous aesthetics in favour of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australia’s Indigenous peoples.
Cooee Art
May. 15, 2023
TONY ALBERT AND NATALYA HUGHES (born 1981; born 1977) Silent Conversation (07) 2020 synthetic polymer paint and vintage appropriated...
Est: $1,800 - $2,800
TONY ALBERT AND NATALYA HUGHES (born 1981; born 1977) Silent Conversation (07) 2020 synthetic polymer paint and vintage appropriated Aboriginal fabric on canvasboard artist's signatures, title and date on label verso 20 x 25cm PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: "Silent Conversations was initiated during lockdown and represents an abstract dialogue between artists and friends Natalya Hughes and Tony Albert. Through the application of mark making, the canvas boards (posted back and forth multiple times) continue decades of academic dialogue between the two artists." (excerpt, Artists' Statement) Courtesy The Artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Leonard Joel
May. 04, 2023
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $1,600 - $2,000
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
May. 04, 2023
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $1,600 - $2,000
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Apr. 05, 2023
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Apr. 05, 2023
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Mar. 22, 2023
TONY ALBERT, GREEN SKINS, 2014
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
TONY ALBERT born 1981 GREEN SKINS, 2014 suite of 14 synthetic polymer paint on paper 27.5 x 21.0 cm (each) signed on label verso: tony ALBERT / X. each bears inscription on label verso: artist's name, title, date, medium and size PROVENANCE Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney (labels attached verso) Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2015 EXHIBITED Tony Albert: Guarding The Home Front, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 20 March - 17 May 2015 © Tony Albert / Copyright Agency 2023
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 16, 2022
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Eunice Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Nov. 16, 2022
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on a...
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Trudy Holland, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Nov. 16, 2022
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Kristabell Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print...
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
§ TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Mid Century Modern in Collaboration with Kristabell Porter, Warakurna 2017 acrylic and photographic print on archival paper signed on gallery label verso: tony ALBERT titled and dated on gallery label verso 31.5 x 31.5cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Unity, Tony Albert, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 10 - 31 March 2018 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Six Art Centres each invited a contemporary artist to visit and collaborate with the Aboriginal artists of their area. Tony Albert workshopped with the Warakurna Artists collective, Western Australia and through his time there he collaborated with over 40 artists to create a large-scale installation that explored the importance of landscape, community, and culture. He stated that "One of the best ways to learn about different people is the opportunity to live, work and collaborate with them."
Leonard Joel
Jun. 30, 2022
TONY ALBERT (1981 - ) Mid Century Modern - Hunting Kangaroo, 2016 pigment print on paper, edition of 2 + 1 A/P (#1/2) 50 x 50 cm (fr...
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
TONY ALBERT (1981 - ) Mid Century Modern - Hunting Kangaroo, 2016 pigment print on paper, edition of 2 + 1 A/P (#1/2) 50 x 50 cm (frame: 53 x 53 x 3 cm) signed on catalogue label verso, Sullivan+Strumpf gallery label verso
Lawsons
Mar. 08, 2022
TONY ALBERT, CAMP SITE (ACE OF CLUBS), 2018
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
TONY ALBERT born 1981 CAMP SITE (ACE OF CLUBS), 2018 digital print on plywood 76.5 x 47.0 cm x 13.0 cm Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney Private collection Sydney EXHIBITED Sullivan + Strumpf at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2018, Carriageworks, Sydney, 13 – 16 September 2018 Museum of Days, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore, 9 March – 14 April 2019 © Tony Albert / Copyright Agency 2022 This item is located at our Melbourne gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 23, 2021
Tony Albert (b. 1981)Measurements:
Est: $800 - $1,200
Untitled, 2009 mixed media, perforated card, collage and painting, signed and dated verso 'Tony Albert, 2009'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Nov. 10, 2021
TONY ALBERT, WE CAN BE HEROES, FOREVER AND EVER, 2014
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
TONY ALBERT born 1981 WE CAN BE HEROES, FOREVER AND EVER, 2014 vintage playing cards, metal and string 110.0 x 82.0 cm PROVENANCE Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney Shannon Bennett, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014 EXHIBITED We Come in Peace: Tony Albert, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, 4 – 29 March 2014 ESSAY Tony Albert is an acclaimed contemporary Australian artist whose varied practice reflects and interrogates the legacy of misrepresentation of indigenous Australian peoples in visual culture. The Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku-Yalanji artist has been collecting mass-produced souvenir trinkets from opportunity shops since his teens, specifically those that he calls ‘aboriginalia’- kitschy mid-century home décor appropriating indigenous designs or objectifying caricatures of indigenous peoples. One of the most prevalent items in Albert’s extensive collection, and one that has formed the basis of many of his sculptural installations, is the souvenir playing card. Arranged into the symbolically rich structure of a house of cards, this historic record of systemic racism acquires a new connotation of activism and resistance. The house of cards structure was first used by Tony Albert in 2011 with 108, an installation included in the 2014 Adelaide Biennial, Dark Heart, and has recently been revisited in House of Discards, a large-scale sculpture exhibited in The National exhibition in Sydney in 2019. Fragile and whimsical, the house of cards (also known as a card tower, or card castle), is more than being an architectural structure, it is also a figurative expression meaning a structure or argument built on an unstable or untenable foundation. Furthermore, the playing card as a symbol of western gaming, becomes in Albert’s work, a metaphor for the role of chance in determining cultural identity and the opportunities afforded to people by history and circumstance. Bruce Johnson McLean, Albert’s colleague has equated this visual device to the way aboriginal children in particular have been utilized like pawns in Australian politics, “like playing cards at the table of national politics”.1 Although much of Albert’s work is concerned with exposing insincerity and exploitation of first nations Australians, the pervading tenor of his works is one of fragile positivity, hope and optimism. We Can Be Heroes, Forever and Ever, 2014 was one of six houses displayed in the exhibition We Come in Peace, at Sullivan and Strumpf gallery in 2014. The irony of Albert’s title, ‘we come in peace’ (appropriated from science fiction trope from Hollywood), lays bare the enduring peril that Western colonization has placed on first nations people, a far cry from the ideal intentions of ‘civilisation’. By combining the souvenir cards with other visual, and textual elements from popular western culture (video game aliens, superheroes and cartoon animals), Albert repurposes western cultural icons into symbols of gentle indigenous activism. Tongue-in-cheek and joyfully kitschy, We Can Be Heroes, Forever and Ever, features the stencil-cut figure of Marvel superhero Spiderman leaping out from the crumbling structure of a house of cards, the thirteen levels of which have been compromised by foreign projectiles, other cards featuring offensive imagery. Providing a template for positive affirmation for indigenous youth, Albert uses the image of a cartoon superhero to encourage pride and self-determination in the face of adversity. Redressing the balance of positive representation has been a strong thread within Albert’s practice. By focusing on the acknowledgement of the strength, perseverance and sacrifice of indigenous peoples, Albert proves the ability to persevere and thrive in spite of the structures that disadvantage and discriminate. The figure of Spiderman has recently been re-used in Albert’s practice, in makeshift costumes for indigenous children in the Aboriginal community of Warakurna, in Western Australia. The series Wakurna Superheroes continues the ongoing theme of children creating their own destinies and identities, exploring how we can all battle adversity through strong community engagement and solidarity. 1. McLean, B., Visible, exhibition catalogue, GoMA, Brisbane, 2018. LUCIE REEVES-SMITH © Tony Albert / Copyright Agency 2021
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 25, 2020
Tony Albert (born 1981) Space Invaders #1, 2003
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Tony Albert (born 1981) Space Invaders #1, 2003 inscribed verso: 'FW7523' synthetic polymer paint on canvas 180.0 x 230.0cm (70 7/8 x 90 9/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jun. 23, 2020
Tony Albert - Untitled
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Tony Albert, a descendant of theÂ Girramay,Â Yidinji,Â andÂ Kuku-YalanjiÂ peoples, was born inÂ Townsville,Â North Queensland. He graduated from theÂ Queensland College of Art,Â Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collectiveÂ ProppaNOW,Â which included artistsÂ Richard Bell,Â Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee,Â Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. AlbertÂ employs a wide range of mediums, includingÂ painting,Â photography,Â andÂ mixed media, to engage with political, historical, and culturalÂ AboriginalÂ and Australian history. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albertâs techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Aboriginal aesthetics and employ a kind of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of âAboriginaliaâ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australiaâs Indigenous peoples.
Cooee Art
Jun. 23, 2020
Tony Albert - Mid Century Modern - Decorated Baobab Nuts
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Tony Albert, a descendant of theÂ Girramay,Â Yidinji,Â andÂ Kuku-YalanjiÂ peoples, was born inÂ Townsville,Â North Queensland. He graduated from theÂ Queensland College of Art,Â Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collectiveÂ ProppaNOW,Â which included artistsÂ Richard Bell,Â Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee,Â Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. AlbertÂ employs a wide range of mediums, includingÂ painting,Â photography,Â andÂ mixed media, to engage with political, historical, and culturalÂ AboriginalÂ and Australian history. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albertâs techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Aboriginal aesthetics and employ a kind of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of âAboriginaliaâ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australiaâs Indigenous peoples.
Cooee Art
Jun. 23, 2020
Tony Albert - Life Among the First Australians
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Tony Albert, a descendant of theÂ Girramay,Â Yidinji,Â andÂ Kuku-YalanjiÂ peoples, was born inÂ Townsville,Â North Queensland. He graduated from theÂ Queensland College of Art,Â Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. He promptly joined urban-based Indigenous art collectiveÂ ProppaNOW,Â which included artistsÂ Richard Bell,Â Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee,Â Fiona Foley, and Bianca Beetson. AlbertÂ employs a wide range of mediums, includingÂ painting,Â photography,Â andÂ mixed media, to engage with political, historical, and culturalÂ AboriginalÂ and Australian history. Like Bell and Ah Kee, the use of text is essential to Albert's practice. Tony Albertâs techniques and imagery displace traditional Australian Aboriginal aesthetics and employ a kind of conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, literary fiction, and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility and, in turn, invisibility of Aboriginal people across news media, literature, and the visual arts. Central to his way of working is his expansive collection of âAboriginaliaâ (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality). Albert creates work that is not only visually appealing, but also acts as a vehicle for stimulating discussion and communicating historical attitudes toward Australiaâs Indigenous peoples.
Cooee Art
May. 31, 2020
Tony Albert - Greetings from Appin
Est: ₱73,000 - ₱94,900
signed and dated 2016 (lower right) etching and aquatint 50 x 50.5 cm
Leon Gallery
Jun. 06, 2017
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Let's Dance 2009 mixed media on reused card
Est: $800 - $1,200
TONY ALBERT (born 1981) Let''s Dance 2009 mixed media on reused card 22 x 16cm PROVENANCE: Jan Manton Art, Queensland
Leonard Joel
May. 09, 2017
Tony Albert (b. 1981)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Tony Albert (b. 1981) Untitled, 2009 mixed media, perforated card, collage and painting, signed and dated verso 'Tony Albert, 2009'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Oct. 15, 2015
Tony Albert (1981 - ) - Untitled (Projecting Our Future), 2009 31 x 23cm
Est: $200 - $400
Tony Albert (1981 - ) Untitled (Projecting Our Future), 2009 mixed media 31 x 23cm signed & dated '09 lower right, Sullivan+Strumpf Gallery
Lawsons