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The personalities around Timothy Vernon (TV) Moore provide the fuel for new work, and his sources of inspiration range from infamous Australians, to characters from bleak movies, to local individuals found by the artist in his constant fits of observational casting. Moore is part of a new wave of video artists making their way into zeitgeist-defining survey shows and group exhibitions on narrative and illusion. The video work of his Sydney-based peers Shaun Gladwell and The Kingpins, for example, are forming a critical mass of sub-culture-exploring, movingimage works. These artists, and others like them, are the eyes on our streets and have a lot to tell us about the state of art-making in Australia and what theatrical performance echoes in real life.
Moore's video works, carefully installed and usually multi-channelled, coalesce as performance, narrative film clip and short movie. The accompanying soundtracks are always produced by the artist and are often collaboratively performed. He has exhibited regularly in Sydney, where he lives and works, but has exhibited solo only twice outside New South Wales, at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. However, at thirty, Moore has been included in I Thought I Knew But I Was Wrong: New Video Art From Australia currently touring parts of Asia through Asialink and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Moore received an Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship in 2003 and he is currently the only strictly video-based artist represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery which, thankfully, has made a commitment to showing video art over recent years.
Moore's initial recognition came as a result his two channel video-installation Urban Army Man (2000) at ArtSpace, Sydney, and... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline