PATRICK POUND

Pound’s work with photography as a collecting device has been included in the five key surveysof Australian Photography: Shadow catchers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2020, curated by Isobel Parker Philip; Defining Place/Space: Contemporary Photography from Australia, 2019,The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, curated by Deborah Klochko; The Art of the Pho- tograph, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013, curated by Judy Annear; Episodes, Dong Gang Photography Museum, Korea, 2014, curated by Natalie King and Yong Mi Park; Perfect for Every Occasion: Australian Photography Today, Heide Museum of Art, 2007, curated by Zara Stanhope. Pound’s creative practice rethinks collection and display models and unpacks how things might be found to hold and express ideas differently in gallery and museum contexts. He positions the col- lection as a medium. He also investigates new methods of interconnecting collection works using internet search methods as an organizing system for finding, ordering, and displaying collections as artworks.

In 2017, Pound had a major survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, ti- tled Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, and was accompanied by a major monograph. Pound has held over fifty solo exhibitions and been included in over eighty curated exhibitions in New Zea- land, Australia, France, Germany, England, Korea, Italy, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the UK and USA. In 2018, ‘Patrick Pound: On Reflection’, saw Pound work with the curator Aaron Lister, City Gallery, and Te Papa Tongarewa Museum and National Gallery of New Zealand, in a major installation that performed as a vast palindrome of objects and images. In 2019 Pound was short- listed with the curator Susan Bright to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. In 2019, Patrick Pound: Photography and Air, saw Pound rethink the collection of the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, in Madrid, alongside his collected objects and photos under the constraint of ‘Air’ for curator Susan Bright’s Déjà vu, Photo Espana. In 2020 Pound’s collection-based works were installed in a vast matrix hang at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in David Campany’s German photo biennale. In 2022 Pound’s installation of collections featured in David Campany’s A Trillion Sunsets at the ICP, New York. In 2022 Pound also worked with Queensland Art Gallery collections and his own Museum of Air for Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow’s international ‘Air’ exhibition.

Presently, in 2023 Pound’s work closes the vast National Gallery of Victoria book and internation- al exhibition ‘Photography Real and Imagined’, curated by Susan Van Wyk.

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