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Paul Yore unbowed by legal controversy in new work for Neon Parc
By Dylan Rainforth
Controversial artist Paul Yore returns with his first solo show in Melbourne since 2013.
A subsequent scandal and court case, related to one of Yore's installations at Linden Contemporary, saw the artist accused of producing child pornography. The charges were eventually dismissed by magistrate Amanda Chambers.
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD by Paul Yore.
Now Yore is taking over Neon Parc's large Brunswick space to reveal the results of two years' research, studio work and travel, including an immersion in outsider art during a recent sojourn in Europe.
Yore is using the full scale of the Tinning Street gallery to show an ambitious series of collage-like textile hangings and new work in video and sound installation.
He seems unbowed by his legal ordeal and Neon Parc director Geoff Newton says the new works intermingle "themes such as Australia's violent history and consumer excess" with "cartoons, pornography, and slogans from … vernacular culture".