Pat Brassington

Pat Brassington
Born 1942
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Nationality Australian
Known for Photography, Digital Media
Awards Bowness Photography Prize,[1]


Pat Brassington is a contemporary Australian artist working in the fields of photography, and digital arts.[2] Born in 1942, in the town of Hobart, Tasmania.

Education

Pat Brassington studied printmaking and photography at the Tasmanian School of Art in the early 1980s.[3] Named Australia’s key surrealist working in photo media,[4] 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;[5]Á Rebours, a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA (2012),[6] 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.[7]

Awards

2013 Winner, Bowness Photography Prize with the image Shadow Boxer, from her series Quill [8]

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