Tony Albert visited Kluge-Ruhe with his then-curator Liz Nowell in July 2015. Albert gave several public lectures and participated in ARTinstead, an event celebrating NAIDOC week that explored the role of art in addressing racial justice in our world.
Tony Albert is a Girramay artist. His work is held in numerous public and private collections internationally. In 2014 he won both the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and the prestigious $50,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He is known internationally and recently unveiled a major commission in Sydney’s Hyde Park, a monument dedicated to Australia’s Indigenous military service men and women.
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