Paul Yore, We Are Blind To Our Own Blindness (detail), 2022. Mixed media textile applique comprising found materials, reclaimed fabrics, beads, sequins, buttons, acrylic, lace and cotton thread, 331 x 232cm. Courtesy: the artist, Hugo Michelle, Adelaide, and Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool.

Paul Yore & Albert Tucker: Structures of Feeling aligns the work of two ground-breaking Australian artists from different generations. The exhibition interrogates the socio-historical and psychological underpinnings of Albert Tucker’s widely known wartime Melbourne paintings of the early 1940s, and later urban imagery, alongside the sexually-charged critique of patriarchal culture, neo-liberalism and Anglo-American imperialism posed by Paul Yore’s textile and assemblage works.

Brought into dialogue, the exhibition offers a physical interpretation of the lurid wasteland littered with sex and death Tucker alludes to and depicts, alongside an exploration of ongoing American cultural domination, or as Yore states, “invasion”, the hegemony of which is prefigured by the original act of English colonisation on this continent.

This exhibition will include works drawn from the National Gallery of Australia, the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation, the Heide Collection, and private collections.