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.
Read MoreYore 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.
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...
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...
"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...
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.'
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.