Tracy Moffatt (1960–) is an artist and film maker of Aboriginal descent. From the age of three, Moffatt was raised by a foster family in the suburbs of Brisbane, and graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 1982. She relocated to Sydney in 1983 and began exhibiting photographs and producing short films, documentaries and music videos. During the 1980s she also became involved with Indigenous politics, and was arrested in England for protesting the launch of the First Fleet to commemorate the Australian Bicentenary. She helped establish the Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative in Sydney in 1987, and became a prominent figure within this first generation of Indigenous artists to exhibit work in contemporary art spaces. Over the past 30 years she has continued to work in both still and moving images, and has a significant international profile. She is representing Australia at the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2017.
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