Tracey Moffatt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tracey Moffatt
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Nov 12, 1960(1960-11-12)
Age	64
Birthplace	Brisbane
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tracey Moffatt Biography

Tracey Moffatt is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on November 12, 1960 in Brisbane, Australia. Moffatt was born in Brisbane in 1960 to a white father and an Aboriginal mother. At age three she was fostered out of her family, growing up as the eldest of three daughters in a white family and often left to look after her foster sisters.

Commissioned by the Murray Art Museum Albury and shot in Link Studios in Wodonga, Something more (1989) is a photographic series composed of six vibrant Cibachrome colour prints and three black-and-white prints. It is a now iconic series of photographs that built Moffatt’s first widespread public attention, each of which borrows from film language to construct what is described as “an enigmatic narrative of a young woman looking for more out of life than the circumstances of her violent rural upbringing.” Night Cries (1989/1990) is one of Moffatt’s best-known films. Inspired by the 1955 classic Australian film Jedda, and sharing similar aesthetics to Something More, it tells the story of an Aboriginal women forced to care for her aging white mother.

Shown at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Bedevil is composed of three self- contained narratives with recurring visual motifs. In the first story Mister Chuck Moffatt uses the character of an American soldier, in the second part Choo Choo Choo Choo railway tracks connect a series of events and in the final part Lovin’ the Spin I’m in a landlord who evicts a family from a house. The images were partly inspired by memories from her early life.

As her work progressed over the next decade, Moffatt began to explore narratives in more gothic settings. In Up in the Sky (1998) the artist’s work again used a sequential narrative but instead of using fantasy settings, a story concerning Australia’s “stolen generation” – Indigenous Australian children who were taken from their families and forcibly relocated under Government policy – was enacted and performed on location in Queensland’s outback. Like Something More, Up in the sky employs the theme of race and violence, displaying a loose narrative set against the backdrop of a remote town, ‘a place of ruin’ and devastation populated by misfits and minor characters. It is one of Moffatt’s larger series of photographs and takes its visual ideas from Italian modernist cinema Accattone (1961) by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The story relies on a triangular mixed-race relationship. Of this work Moffatt stated: ‘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 … there is a storyline, but … there isn’t a traditional beginning, middle and end.’

Moffatt’s first short film was Nice Coloured Girls (1987). It is a 16-minute story of three young Aboriginal women as they cruise Sydney’s King Cross entertainment district looking for fun, presented in cut-away context with the historical oppression of Indigenous women by white men.

Tracey Moffatt Net Worth

Tracey Moffatt is one of the richest Photographer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tracey Moffatt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tracey Moffatt AO (born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.

Moffatt holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982, and received an honorary doctorate in 2004.

Moffatt’s photographic series of works such as Pet Thang (1991) and Laudanum (1998) returned to the themes of Something More exploring mixed and sometimes obscure references to issues of sexuality, history, representation and race. Other series of images, notably Scarred for Life (1994) and Scarred for Life II (1999) again tackled these themes but which referenced the photojournalism and photo essays of Life magazine accompanied by captions. While the words are compelling, they don’t explain the images, indeed they tend to add to their enigmatic nature as though more information is a further dead end.

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Commissioned for the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008.

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Tracey Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Tracey Moffatt celebrates birthday on November 12 of every year.

Primarily concerned with a series of almost static vignettes, Night Cries reiterates many of Moffatt’s visual motifs from her still photography – sets, non-acting, an evocative use of sound and music. In Night Cries Moffatt’s attempts to draw ironic or romantic connotations in juxtaposition to the images and narratives, such as her use of Jimmy Little. Moffatt also makes explicit references to Australian art history, drawing parallels between Indigenous history and the recording the landscape by non-Indigenous artists by quoting artists such as Frederick McCubbin’s The Pioneer. This film was selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.

Is Tracey Moffatt indigenous?

Biography. Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, “My Horizon”.

Is Tracey Moffatt still working?

Tracey Moffatt
Notable work| Something more (1989)

What is Tracey Moffatt known for?

Tracey Moffatt is one of the artists who transformed photographic practice in Australia in the late 20th century. Her breakthrough work was Something More (1989), made in the same year as her short film Night Cries – A Rural Tragedy.

Where is Tracey Moffatt from?

Brisbane, Australia

How did Max dupain take photos?

Sunbaker 1937 – Australia’s most iconic beach image We used our hi-res digital file made from a scan of the original negative to produce an ultra- high resolution photographic negative film (produced in Los Angeles).