When, Will I, Will I be Famous

SMH art critic Peter Hill muses on art, fame and celebrity, praising the playful personas of NZ artist Patrick Pound. He compares Pound to English YBA chief Damien Hirst: “For a decade he has been working on a systematic parody of the modern artist’s mania for curriculum vitae. […] As with all good superfictions, he mixes reality with art, culture with business. Pound is currently co-currating the show, ‘The Way things Are’ at Redfern’s Grant Pirrie Gallery, featuring his: ‘Other Artists: The Artists that I could Have Been’ which includes “The artist working under the name Charles Ransom. At each of her solo shows she would simply send one of her severed fingers and a note demanding payment in order to stop this perverse performance of a career”. “Warhol would be turning silver with envy”, Hill remarks. (3 – 31 August 23)