Patrick Pound

Patrick Pound is a Melbourne-based artist working across mediums. His work has the look of having been made by someone who has set out to try and explain the world and who, having failed, has been reduced to collecting it. His work is about compiling and constructing evidence. His work poses the world as a puzzle.

His archives, amassed across years of obsessive and meticulous searching and scavenging, include newspaper cuttings, found photographs and everyday objects, and encompass categories such as photographers’ shadows; photographers’ thumbs; people holding cameras; people holding photographs; people in the wind; people with outstretched arms; readers; missing people and found things. These painstakingly accumulated collections present fragments of the world, which have been reorganised in search of some kind of greater order or logic. They take ordinary moments and, through multiplying them and presenting them alongside each other, transform them into something altogether more mysterious and meaningful. His work constantly tests the limits of images, or sets of things, to represent something, and to hold ideas.