Paul Yore SEEING THE JOINS
Paul Yore’s solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) this September, Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH, has been conceived as an early-career survey, covering about fifteen years of output, and including over one hundred textile works, from intimately scaled embroidered needlepoint works, through to wall-sized appliquéd quilts. A major monographic publication is being produced to coincide with the exhibition, presenting critical readings of the work by a group of distinguished Australian and international writers.
“The large-scale installation I am creating for my ACCA survey show will feature many text-based elements,” Yore tells me from his studio in Gippsland. “This will be most pointedly in the form of neon and LED light works emblazoned with found text from song lyrics, idioms, proverbs, colloquialisms, political slogans, and exclamations. I’m rather omnivorous, or maybe just tasteless,” he continues,
