Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of
digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various name ...
, and
photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...
. Born in
Hobart,
Tasmania
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, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in
photomedia.
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; Á Rebours, a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
ACCA (2012),
which toured to th
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
The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and ...
; 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
Artbank is an art rental program established in 1980 by the Australian Government. It supports contemporary Australian artists and encourages a wider appreciation of their work by buying artworks which it then rents to public and private sector ...
.
A portrait of Pat Brassington in 2017 was painted by Amanda Davies. She won Australia's
Portia Geach Memorial Award
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is an annual prize for Australian female portraitists. The Award was established in 1961 as a testamentary trust by Florence Kate Geach, sister of Australian painter Portia Geach, with an initial endowment of AU£ ...
for women artists, for a portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences.
Awards
* 2013 winner,
Bowness Photography Prize with the image Shadow Boxer, from her series Quill.
* 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.
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References
External links
Subject of Portia Geach Memorial Award
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1942 births
Artists from Tasmania
Living people
People from Hobart
Culture of Tasmania
Australian women photographers
Visual artists in late 20th-century Australia