PAUL YORE A B O UT TH E A R TIS T Paul Yore was born in 1987, Melbourne, and lives and works in Gippsland, Australia. Yore completed studies in painting and anthropology at Monash University in 2010, before taking up full time work as an artist. He is celebrated as a prominent queer artist working across installation, sound, video, collage, and textiles. Yore has shown in major institutions across Australia, and extensively internationally, including in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, the UK, and USA. His work is held in various public and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.
A B O UT TH E W O R K Time and Time Again draws on the rich and continuing tradition of quilt-making, utilising this pre-industrial methodology as a conceptual device to interrogate contemporary concerns. Constructed from reclaimed and waste materials, including fabric remnants, clothing and bedding, the piece is embedded with hidden histories, traces of the people who made the fabrics, and the residue of the domestic life of the fabric as an object of consumerism. In this way, the work subtly alludes to, and critiques, the ways in which our lives and labour are determined by the prevailing capitalistic mode of production, which in turn has had dire consequences for human and non-human communities alike. The circular form of the piece, coupled with the title suggest the cyclical nature of time, and the recurring themes of history that we ignore at our own peril. The piece is embroidered with text taken from Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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