Pallion is proud to announce the third major collaboration of the Pallion Arts Program: a deeply personal new work by Archie Moore. Winner of the 2024 Venice Biennale Golden Lion, Moore made history as the first First Nations and first Australian artist to receive the honour and is recognised as one of the world’s leading contemporary First Nations artists.
The work will be presented as part of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, taking place across the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Samstag Museum of Art. The Biennial is curated by Ellie Buttrose, who also curated Moore’s Venice Biennale–winning work kith and kin.
Titled Remnants Of My Father, the work is a portrait in absentia of Moore’s father, Stanley Moore (1908– 1994). Rather than depicting likeness, Moore invites audiences to encounter his father through material traces and personal artefacts that shaped his life, through which themes of memory and loss are explored.
“Memories of my father are the golden thread that connect eight forged objects and reproduced documents from my father’s deceased estate. The work speaks to (false) hope, (empty) promises, (thin) veneers and (pipe) dreams,” says Moore.
Stanley Moore was 62 when Archie was born in 1970. Now having lived more of his life without his father than with him, Moore reflects on the fragility of memory and the ways material objects become proxies for understanding those we have lost. The work draws parallels between personal remembrance and broader archaeological and anthropological practices, where histories are reconstructed from fragments, documents and artefacts.
Central to the collaboration is gold—both materially and metaphorically. Moore’s father spent decades chasing the promise of buried riches, navigating hope, disappointment and the emotional volatility of prospecting, including encounters with fool’s gold. Through Pallion’s expertise in considerate precious metals, this legacy is transformed into a poetic meditation on inheritance, labour, belief and value.
Working closely with Moore, Pallion artisans fabricated multiple elements of the work in pure Australian ABC Bullion gold and silver. Through bespoke gold paper developed using advanced rolling, annealing, embossing and laser techniques, archival documents were transformed into enduring precious-metal artefacts—merging contemporary art practice with Pallion’s precious-metal expertise.
“I am truly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Pallion on this project,” adds Moore. “Their guidance and metallurgical expertise made the realisation of the work possible, including a willingness to veer off the beaten track and solve problems through creative thinking.”
The installation brings together a constellation of personal artefacts: archival papers including a gold prospecting licence and hand-drawn map printed on pure ABC Bullion gold; dentures with a pure ABC Bullion gold crown; a silver and resin bedside bucket; gold and copper leaves; discarded war medals; a specimen of pyrite; and a sculptural heart of gold, all presented within historic vitrines to form an intimate archive through which Moore explores memory, inheritance, labour and belief.
Developed in close collaboration with Pallion, Remnants Of My Father continues the Pallion Arts Program’s commitment to artist-led projects that reignite the art of precious metals. The program embraces complex narratives, seeking to explore the layered and founding stories that exist around gold—from hope and extraction to inheritance, dispossession and belief—supporting ambitious contemporary practice through Australian-sourced, considerate gold and silver.
This marks Pallion’s third major Arts Program collaboration, following significant works realised with Lindy Lee and Guido Maestri, and comes alongside Pallion’s recent collaboration with Rainbow Chan on the inaugural release of the ABC Bullion Arts Series Coin Program. The Pallion Arts Program reflects Pallion’s philanthropic mission to support artists and foster art making, creating a body of enduring works that connect artistry, industry and human experience.
Remnants Of My Father will be presented as part of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
