Hosted by NGV Assistant Curator Meg Slater, Paul Yore and Laura Castagnini discuss Yore’s creative practice and his mixed-media appliquéd quilt piece The Evacuation of Mallacoota on display in QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection.

Speakers

Paul Yore was born in 1987, Naarm, and lives and works on stolen, unceded Gunaikurnai land. 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.

Laura Castagnini is a curator and writer interested in the histories of feminism and their current articulations, especially as they intersect with the politics of sexuality and race, and their expression in modern and contemporary art. She is currently Curator at ACMI, where she is working on several projects including Light: Works from Tate’s Collection and Angela Tiatia’s Ian Potter Moving Image Commission. Prior to ACMI, Laura worked as Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate in London. She holds a Master of Arts (Art History) from the University of Melbourne and has received numerous grants and awards for her research on feminist and queer art, including a Research Continuity Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre to trace an exhibition history of the touring exhibition Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs (1991-2).

Meg Slater is Assistant Curator, International Exhibition Projects at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and one of the co-curators of QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection.