Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Born in Melbourne in 1987 Paul Yore completed a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne in 2009. Selected solo exhibitions include: Fountain of Knowledge, Neon Parc, Melbourne 2013; Boys Gone Wild, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2012; ANTHROPOP, The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality Part 2, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2009. Selected group exhibitions include: Synthetica, NETS Victoria, Touring exhibition 2016; Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2014; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2013; Poetry, Dream and the Cosmos: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern of Art, Melbourne 2013; Like Mike, Linden Contemporary, Melbourne 2013; Rainbow Eaters, Westspace, Melbourne 2012 and Global Backyard, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell 2012.
Yore is represented in public collections including The Michael Buxton Collection of Contemporary Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Artbank, in addition to private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Vienna. Awards and prizes include: Australia Council Arts Project Grant 2015-2016; Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2015-2016; Artspace Studio Residency, 2014;Geumcheon Residency, Seoul, 2013; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio 2011-2012.
Ocula Insight Paul Yore at Neon Parc, NADA Miami Beach 2016 30 November 2016 Earlier this year, Paul Yore returned to Melbourne with a solo show at Neon Parc (Solo exhibition, 22 April - 18 June 2016). Previously, Yore had recoiled from the limelight after a public court case in 2014. With his return, Yore triumphantly demonstrated a whole suite of technical skills borrowed from the tradition of the...
Related Press Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft art guide : 8 November 2018 For Paul Yore's latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony. Alongside two-dimensional textiles and a suite of new large soft-sculptural works, Yore has peeled back his...
Related Press MAD LOVE ArtAsiaPacific : 7 September 2017 "Body as pleasure. Body as machine. Body longing, always longing. Hungry body, filthy body." That was the premise formulated by artist and curator Del Kathryn Barton for the group show Mad Love at Berlin's Arndt Art Agency. The Australian contemporary art show focused on nine artistic approaches to the physical and emotional boundaries of...
Related Press At NADA Art Fair, Paul Yore's Shocking Tapestries Dare You to Look Away Miami New Times : 13 December 2016 Osama Bin Laden’s erect genitalia covers the nose of a cut-out of President-elect Donald Trump’s head. Trump’s mouth spews glittery brown droplets of waste. A neon-green speech bubble sprouts from Bin Laden’s mouth, declaring in all caps, 'THE SPECTACLE LIKE MODERN SOCIETY ITSELF IS AT ONCE UNITED AND DIVIDED.'
Related Press Paul Yore Art Guide Australia : 10 May 2016 Distilling the colossal complexity of Paul Yore’s latest solo offering at Neon Parc’s new Tinning Street location is no easy task. Spanning installation, collage, soundscapes, textiles and traditional handicrafts, the exhibition seeks to overload the senses, exacerbating the notion of Debordian spectacle.
