Pat Brassington

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Pat Brassington
Born1942
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPhotography, Digital Media
AwardsBowness Photography Prize[1]

Pat Brassington is a contemporary Australian artist working in the field of digital art, and photography.[2] Born in 1942, in the town of Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia’s key surrealist working in .[3]

Brassington's work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally in galleries and festivals. She has been featured extensively in national and international exhibitions, including the 2012 Adelaide Biennial Parallel Collisions;[4] Á Rebours, a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA (2012),[5] which toured to the ACP, Sydney (2013); a solo exhibition in Lönnstrom Art Museum, Finland and the Helsinki Festival (2008); the Cambridge Road series at the IMA (2007); the 2004 Biennale of Sydney; and a major retrospective at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne (2002).

Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the NGA, AGNSW, QAG, TMAG, NGV, AGWA and Artbank.[6]

A portrait of Pat Brassington in 2017 was painted by Amanda Davies. She won Australia’s Portia Geach Memorial Award for women artists, for a portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences.[7]

Awards[]

  • 2013 winner, Bowness Photography Prize with the image Shadow Boxer, from her series Quill.[6]
  • 2017 winner, inaugural Don MacFarlane Prize, a new philanthropic fund established to honour the life and artistic ambitions of respected Melbourne businessman Donald (Don) Macfarlane. The award was created to recognise the artistic practice of a senior Australian artist and their ongoing cultural contribution and commitment to leadership in the visual arts.

Education[]

Pat Brassington studied printmaking and photography at the Tasmanian School of Art in the early 1980s.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "2013 Bowness Photography Prize". www.mga.org.au. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Pat Brassington". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Pat Brassington: Picturing". Art Collector Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ^ "2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Parallel Collisions". AGSA – The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Pat Brassington: Á Rebours | ACCA". 30 March 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Pat Brassington - Stills Gallery". www.stillsgallery.com.au. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Portia Geach Memorial Award 2017". S.H. Ervin Gallery. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Pat Brassington". www.utas.edu.au. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

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