Paul Yore’s work engages with the histories of religious art and ritual, queer identity, pop culture and neo-liberal capitalism, recasting found images, materials, and texts into sexually and politically loaded tableaux and assemblages, which celebrate hybridity, contradictory meanings, and queer worldmaking.
This exhibition presents work from the past fifteen years: appliquéd quilts and needlework, banners and pendants, collage and assemblage, and a new large-scale mixed media installation, drawing on the vernacular of visionary and psychedelic art, Greco-Roman forms, medieval tapestries, the decorative excesses of rococo style, and trash culture.
Paul Yore, Never be enough, 2021, wool needlepoint, 44 × 48cm. Collection of Abigail Crompton, Melbourne. Courtesy the artist and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
23 September to 20 November 2022
Melbourne
