Location
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington New ZealandStart date
2018-10-14End date
2018-11-10Language
engResearch statement
Patrick Pound is an artist and academic rethinking ideas of curation and collection. He has worked with many Public Gallery and Museum collections, alongside his ever-growing collection-based artworks, rethinking how things might be found and made to hold ideas. Pound's research is increasingly focused on public gallery and museum exhibitions that rethink collection and display models and unpack how things might be found to hold and express ideas differently in gallery and museum contexts. The research and creative practice entail positioning the collection as a medium. This research also investigates new methods of interconnecting collection works using internet search methods as an organizing system for finding, ordering and displaying collections as artworks. The technique of the intersecting matrix hang, and the performative search engine generating internet artworks is a new development in curatorial methodology and thinking, which asks questions of our understandings of sorting and storing and searching information in the internet age, pressing us to rethink museum models of collection and display. In 2019 Pound exhibited 'Brought to Book' at Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington NZ. This exhibition was in part a retrospective survey of 30 years of artmaking that references the book as an object and an idea. He put to the test how collections of photographs and objects might be found and made to hold ideas differently as if on a dare. The exhibition featured paintings and collages and an early collection based artwork, which posed the collection as a medium rethinking our relationships with things, and relationships between things. The works amounted to a survey of Pound's long-standing investigation into how things might be represented and seen differently. Here the book and the display made trouble for the idea of the book and the artwork as separate things. The exhibition coincided with, and related to, his museum survey 'Patrick Pound on Reflection'.Publication classification
JC2.1 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/EventScale
NTRO MinorExtent
Solo exhibitionEvent
Patrick Pound Brought to Book. Exhibition (2018 : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington New Zealand)Publisher
Hamish McKayPlace of publication
Wellington, New Zeeland
