Pat Brassington

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

Pat Brassington is a contemporary Australian artist working in the field of digital art, and photography.. Born in 1942, in the town of Hobart, Tasmania. Named Australia’s key surrealist working in photomedia,.

A portrait of Pat Brassington in 2017 was painted by Amanda Davies, who won Australia’s most prestigious portrait award for women artists, for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences .

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 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.

2017 Winner, inagural 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. 2013 Winner, Bowness Photography Prize with the image Shadow Boxer, from her series Quill .

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