Pat Brassington

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Pat Brassington
Born1942 (age 8182)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPhotography, digital media
AwardsBowness Photography Prize [1]

Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography. [2] Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in photomedia. [3]

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For all of their apparent provocative content, Brassington’s images are strangely mute and even withdrawn. There is another impulse or motivation that can be seen behind them, one that goes beyond their iconography of dreams, fantasies and imaginings to explore the formal properties of photography. Her works might even be called 'classicising'. Brassington’s images are before all else elegant, refined, composed and calculated. [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]

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. [8]

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Education

Pat Brassington studied printmaking and photography at the Tasmanian School of Art in the early 1980s. [9]

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