Thinking through things: Patrick Pound and the Flinders University art museum collections

Patrick Pound is known for his singular approach to art production: compiling, collecting, combining and captioning things in ways that challenge the orthodoxy of museums and their taxonomies. Working with public holdings and his own esoteric compendia of ‘stuff’, Pound uses self-devised cues to give shape, form and meaning to his exhibits. Pound makes his debut in Adelaide with Flinders University Art Museum, mining the 6,500 works in our care to make unexpected and unprecedented connections

Something in the air - Patrick Pound remixes the NGV collection

Julie Szego speaks to Patrick Pound about his Melbourne Now hit, the beguiling Gallery of Air. Cover story with illustrations.

Documentary Intersect

I started by collecting things in order to inform my work. What seems to have happened slowly is that the collections eventually became my work. – Patrick Pound The New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Patrick Pound has had a long-term engagement with the work of Walker Evans, both as a writer and as a practicing artist. For his solo exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery, Pound developed an installation comprised of found images, taking his cue from Walker Evans’s practice of working with readymade printed matter which he published in magazines such as Fortune and Architectural Forum. While Pound’s collecting habits are voracious, he is also a great organiser. He is interested in typologies and arranges items according to shared content: ‘tears’, ‘floral clocks’, ‘crime scenes’, ‘sleepers’, and so on. Laying these out in linear sequences Pound discovers points of intersection to create complex grids of structured yet chaotic imagery. A Hollywood film still of a crime scene will sit eerily alongside an image of a real deceased subject sourced from an archive; or a set of postcards will show the same subject, shot by different photographers and describing both changing viewpoints and the passage of time. Pound has stated: ‘People make sense of the world through assembling, listing and categorising…meaning is to be found in the accumulation of [these] details.’

re.reading: Pound at the Lenton Parr Library

Catalogue and essays to accompany re.reading - Pound at the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library, an exhibition run in conjunction with Melbourne Rare Book Week 2014. Essay. Project Manager Georgina Binns. Essay entitled The Call of Patrick Pound written by Chris Bond.

13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival 2014

Curated group exhibition entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now, part of the Dong Gang International Photo Festival.
An exhibition book produced by the Dong Gang Museum of Photography for the Dong Gang International Photo Festival. Special Exhibition curated by Natalie King and Olivia Poloni entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now featuring the following artists: Patrick Pound, Christian Thompson, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Martin Smith, Michael Cook, Paul Knight, Polixeni Papapetrou, Polly Borland,Tracey Moffatt, Trent Parke, William Yang.

Ex Libris - the book in contemporary art: cover image

Catalogue and exhibition essay for Ex Libris. Essay by Lisa Sullivan, curator Geelong Gallery. Catalogue cover image by Patrick Pound, detail from 'From Darkness to Light.

Spring 1883: Art Fair at the Windsor Hotel

Exhibition of three works by Patrick Pound as part of the Spring 1883 exhibition. Art works entitled: 'Spring Street' a collection of vintage postcards each showing the street the exhibition hotel is located on, the 'Collector' a collection of John Fowles' novel the 'Collector' in numerous editions, and 'The Apartment' a collage of a derelict apartment block. These works were exhibited by Hamish McKay Gallery.The brainchild of Melbourne gallerists Vasili Kaliman (Station), Geoff Newton (Neon Parc), and Vikki McInnes (Sarah Scout Presents), SPRING 1883, the exhibition took place at Melbourne’s historic Hotel Windsor from August 14-17, 2014.The fair drew on the traditions of New York’s hotel-based Gramercy Park Fair and presented the best of contemporary art practice from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States.“Providing a boutique site for dialogue and interaction between galleries, artists and collectors, the fair will create a new energy for the contemporary art market in Australia”

The big sleep

Artist book of found photographs of people who are in repose (either sleeping or dead) with an essay entitled 'The Long Sleep of Photography' by Dr Daniel Palmer. Published to accompany an exhibition at Paris Photo, 2015.