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Patrick Pound


Solo Exhibitions
Soft archive 2010
Phone Camera Work 2008
Rear Vision 2006
Soft - A Real Model World 2004
Painting By Numbers 2002

Group Exhibitions
The Way Things Are 2003

Curriculum Vitae




Born 1962, New Zealand
Lives and works Melbourne, Australia

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Present Tense: An imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Soft archive, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2008    Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2007  2006 Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z..
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2005 2004 Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2003 Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
2002 GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney,
CCP, Melbourne, Herring Island,
Melbourne, (with Lyndell Brown & Charles Green)
2001 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
Auckland City Art Gallery, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland N.Z.
2000 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z.
1999 Curtin University Gallery, Perth
RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (with Charles Green/Lyndell Brown)
Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
1998 Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
1997 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
1996 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
1995 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
Artspace, Auckland, N.Z.
1994 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Centre For Contemporary Art, Hamilton
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland N.Z.
Manawatu Art Gallery, New Plymouth N.Z.
1993 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
1992 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland N.Z.
1989 Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
Artspace George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
1988 V.B.G Gallery, Auckland N.Z.
1987 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
1985 Last and First, Auckland N.Z.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 On life after death, DEATH BE KIND Gallery, Melbourne
In Which the Wind is also a Protagonist, La Generale en Manufacture, Paris
2009 Recycled Library: Altered Books, Artspace Mackay, Qld touring exhibition
Someone looking at something, Westspace, Melbourne
Photographer Unknown, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2007 A Winter Show, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
Perfect for every occassion: photography today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
2006 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, curated by Justin Paton.
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, Archiving Fever, curated by Emily Cormack.
2005 Auckland City Art Gallery, Sensational: sight and sound installations,
Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, Linked – Connectivity and Exchange, curated by Charlotte Huddleston.
Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania; Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria; Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria; Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania, Paper Moon, curated by Ellie Ray.
Westspace Gallery, Selekta, curated by Brett Jones and Westspace
2003 GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, The way things are, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, The Peter Fay Collection
Para site, Hong Kong, OCEM, curated by Lau Kin Wah and Brett Jones
West Space, Melbourne, OCEM, second enactment, curated by Lau Kin Wah and Brett Jones
Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z. curated by Charlotte Huddleston
2002 Parks Victoria Gallery, Sanctuary, Victoria
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Stranger than truth, curated by Peter Hill,
City Gallery, Wellington, Good Work – the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, curated By Justin Paton
2001 Conical, Melbourne, Adrift, Nomadic New Zealand Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
University,Phenomena New Painting In Australia:1, curated by Michael Wardell
Mosman Gallery, Sydney, Leaping Boundaries
A Century Of New Zealand Artists In Australia, curated by Sue Gardiner
Alive, Adam Gallery, Victoria University Wellington curated by Zara Stanhope
Bright Paradise, The Triennial of Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery curated by Allan Smith
2000 Art and Land. Travelling to Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, China and the Philippines and regional Australian public galleries
1999 Artspace, Auckland, Who Do I Think I am
Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Volvo Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Festival Centre
Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, We Are Australian
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, N.Z. Home and Away
1998 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, List Structure, curated by Charles Green
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Moët and Chandon Touring Exhibition
Artspace, Auckland, Patterns of Intention
1997 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Möet & Chandon Touring Exhibition. Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, fascination street. Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, Release
1996 Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, Run.
1995 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton N.Z., New Works, New Directions:
Recent Acquisitions by the Chartwell Collection. Logan Gallery, Queensland, Text and Art Curated by Michael Milburn. Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, \
Pound and Tillers, Wellington City Gallery, N.Z.,
A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, Curated by Allan Smith, Wellington City Gallery, N.Z., Private View for the Public Good, curated by Luit Bieringa. Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington N.Z., Recent Sculpitecture: Horribly Desirable, curated by Jim Barr and Mary Barr.
1994 The Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui N.Z.,
Taking Stock of the `90s. Auckland City Art Gallery, N.Z.,
Parallel Lines - Gordon Walters in Context, curated by William MacAloon. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,
Static, curated by Ben Curnow, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton N.Z., Chartwell Collection, A Selection. Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton N.Z.,
Shared Pleasures. Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
1993 Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North N.Z.,
Opening Up The Book, curated by Athol McCredie. Cubewell House, Wellington N.Z.,
After (after) McCahon refashioning the new, Curated by Jim Barr and Mary Barr. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Headlands: Thinking Through N.Z Art, curated by Bernice Murphy and Robert Leonard.
1992 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Critic's Choice nominated by Charles Green.
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth N.Z., and Wellington
City Art Gallery, N.Z., Shadow of Style, Curated by Greg Burke.
Australian Print Workshop - Monash University, Melbourne,
International Artists' Books. Napier Museum and Art Gallery,
Wellington City Art Gallery, N.Z.,
Now See Here!, Art, Language and Translation, Curated by Ian Wedde and Greg Burke.

Collections
Public: National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery Victoria, Auckland City Art Gallery, Dunedin Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Govett Brewster Gallery New Plymouth, Chartwell Trust, N.Z., Film Archive.
Corporate: A.N.Z., Chapman Tripp, Fletcher Challenge, Pratt Industries, Western Mining, Sweeney Vesty Pty Ltd.
Private: Numerous private collections in New Zealand, Australia and abroad.

Grants/Prizes
Australia Council, Artist's Development Project Grants 2001, 1998, 1995, 1992.
Q.E. II NZ Arts Council Grants (painting) 1990, 1987.
Q.E. II NZ Arts Council Grants (video) 1988, 1987.
Prize for Excellence in Art History Auckland University 1986.
Senior Art History Prize Auckland University 1986.
Elam School of Fine Arts Auckland University Prize 1986.

Selected Bibliography
Art Monthly Australia, Photographer Unkown, October 2009, Issue 224, p. 46
Andrew Stephens, The Age, Memories, with loose moorings, October 2009
Veronica Tello, Photofile 88, Photographer Unknown, December 2009 to March 2010, p. 63
Alway, L., Stanhope, Z., McFarlane, Dr. K., French, Dr. B., Perfect for every occasion: photography today exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
Rear Vision, essay by Dr. Leon Noel, GRANTPIRRIE, 2006.
Linked – Connectivity and Exchange, essay by Charlotte Huddleston, Govett Brewster Gallery, 2005.
Little Remains: the photos of Patrick Pound, 2005.
Photogenic, Essays, Photography, CCP 2000-2004, edited by Daniel Palmer.
Tidal, essay by Jane Stewart, Devonport Regional Gallery, 2004.
Paper Moon, studio-based constructed photography, Ellie Ray, 2005.
Selekta, essays by Brett Jones etc. 2005.
2004, essays by A. Bell, R. Butler, I.Crombie, B. French, K. Gellatly, N. Papastergiadis, etc.
Soft – a real model world, essay by Anthony Tromp, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, 2004.
Organisation, essays by Lau Kin Wah, Brett Jones and Larissa Hjorth.
Sanctuary, essay by Alex Miller.
Art New Zealand No.101, Adrift in Melbourne, pp.50, 51, 89, Vin Ryan.
Adrift; Nomadic art from NZ, 2001, Emily Cormack.
Multistylus Programming, Alan Smith, Auckland City Gallery.
Leaping Boundaries – A Century of New Zealand Art in Australia, Sue Gardiner Mosman Gallery.
Bright Paradise, Ed. Allan Smith, Auckland Art Gallery, 2001.
Photofile. 59. 2000. Ed Peter Hill.
Australian Painting Now. Edited by Laura Murray Cree and Neville Drury, essay by Charles Green, Craftsman House 2000.
The Australian's Review of Books (cover) October 1999.
Towards a Theory of Everything 1999, by N. Papastergiadis, Australian Centre for Photography.
Moët and Chandon Catalogue 1998, by M. Wardell.
Art Monthly Australia, It Wasn't Me It Was Him, Gene Autry, June 1997.
Möet & Chandon, A. Clabburn and B. Marks 1997.
N.Z. Modernism in Context, Vol. 1., Paintings from the Gibbs Collection, edited by J. Ross 1995.
A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of New Zealand Painting, Essays by A. Smith and L. Davis, June 1995.
Text and Art, Catalogue essay N. Zurbrugg Why be a Text and Art Artist?, 1995.
Recent Sculpitecture, Catalogue and Companion Guide to Twentieth Century Art, compiled by Jim Barr and Mary Barr, 1995.
Art New Zealand No. 74. p. 61, Networking - Patrick Pound's Support Group in Hamilton, B. French, 1995.
Postcode - a Travelling Show, Catalogue essay C. Green July 1994.
Static, Catalogue essay, pp.4,29,31,35, B. Curnow, April 1994.
Untitled, pp.52,53, M. Delaney and K. Daw, Next Wave Festival Catalogue, April 1994.
Sites, Issue No. 27, Summer 1993 (rear cover).
Opening Up The Book, p.4, A. McCredie, Aug. 1993.
UR1/International, Catalogue essay, B. Curnow.
Art New Zealand No. 65 pp.48,49,79, Mary Barr and Jim Barr, We're Changing More Than Our Name, S. McKenzie, Summer 1992-3.
Landfall 181, March 1992 (cover).
Art and Australia Vol. 30 No. 2 Summer 1992 pp.187,241.
Headlands, Catalogue, pp. 179,181,182, T. Barton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1992.
Art New Zealand #52, D. Mansfield, 1989.
Art New Zealand #36. Hot, M. Pearce