Pat Brassington

*1942 / Australia

Works

Solo exhibitions

Dear Diary

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
14 Feb 2025 – 8 Mar 2025
PAT BRASSINGTON

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
19 Jun 2024 – 20 Jul 2024
Strike

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
10 Mar 2023 – 4 Apr 2023
2000 - 2010: A SIGNIFICANT DECADE

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
4 Jun 2021 – 26 Jun 2021
Picturing

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
1 Aug 2020 – 22 Aug 2020
On a Clear Day

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
27 Jul 2018 – 18 Aug 2018
PAT BRASSINGTON

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
26 Jun 2018 – 28 Jul 2018
the body electric

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
19 Aug 2017 – 11 Feb 2018
En Route

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
22 Jul 2016 – 8 Aug 2016
JUST SO

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
18 May 2016 – 18 Jun 2016
JUST SO

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
8 Mar 2016 – 9 Apr 2016
2014 CCP Fundraiser

Centre Contemporary Photo, Melbourne (AU)
5 Sep 2014 – 21 Sep 2014
PAT BRASSINGTON

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
16 Jul 2014 – 16 Aug 2014
PAT BRASSINGTON

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
8 Apr 2014 – 10 May 2014
2013 Bowness Photography Prize

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
3 Oct 2013 – 3 Nov 2013
Quill

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
31 Jul 2013 – 31 Aug 2013
A Rebours

Australian Centre Photo, Sydney (AU)
1 Jun 2013 – 18 Aug 2013
Quill

Bett Gallery, Hobart (AU)
10 May 2013 – 31 May 2013
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Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (AU)
19 Sep 2012 – 21 Oct 2012
A Rebours

AUS Centre Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
11 Aug 2012 – 23 Sep 2012
A Heartbeat Away & The Pressings

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
9 May 2012 – 16 Jun 2012
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Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
24 Aug 2010 – 18 Sep 2010
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
10 Mar 2010 – 17 Apr 2010
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
14 May 2008 – 14 Jun 2008
Cambridge Road

IMA - Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
13 Oct 2007 – 1 Dec 2007
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Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
4 Sep 2007 – 27 Sep 2007
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
4 Apr 2007 – 5 May 2007
Sweet hereafter

Criterion Gallery, Hobart (AU)
10 Aug 2006 – 2 Sep 2006
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
22 Mar 2006 – 22 Apr 2006
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Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
4 Oct 2005 – 29 Oct 2005
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Stills South, Sydney (AU)
23 May 2004 – 19 Jun 2004
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2 Jul 2003 – 2 Aug 2003
earlier works - from Anxious Bodies, 1+1=3 and Untitled I-IX

Stills South, Sydney (AU)
1 Jul 2003 – 1 Aug 2003

Group

Uncanny Wayfinders Part II: Into Red

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
30 Sep 2026 – 7 Nov 2026

with Murray Fredericks, Dani Martí, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Jacky Redgate, Julie Rrap, Lydia Wegner
THE UNCANNY WAYFINDERS

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
20 Aug 2026 – 26 Sep 2026

with Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Julie Rrap, Cyrus Tang, Anne Zahalka
CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent

Robert Mapplethorpe from the National Gallery of Australia

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
7 Mar 2026 – 24 May 2026

with Del Kathryn Barton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jake Preval, Meng-Yu Yan
Lagacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
22 Oct 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Julie Rrap
Suburban Sublime

Australian Photography

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
10 Aug 2024 – 17 Aug 2025

with Virginia Coventry, Ponch Hawkes, Bill Henson, Naomi Hobson, Carol Jerrems, Lindy Lee, Ruth Maddison, Lin Martin, Tracey Moffatt, Nicholas Nedelkopoulos, Glen O’Malley, Poul C. Poulsen …
CLOSER

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
7 Feb 2024 – 27 Feb 2024

with Prue Stent & Honey Long, Rose Farrell & George Parkin
Defining Place/Space

Contemporary Photography from Australia

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
6 Mar 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Hoda Afshar, Polly Borland, Michael Cook, Rosemary Laing, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Patrick Pound, Jacky Redgate, James Tylor, Justine Varga
LEGACY+ … collecting contemporary

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
18 Jul 2018 – 19 Aug 2018

with Hoda Afshar, David Rosetzky
SITES OF THE IMAGINATION

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
29 Nov 2017 – 3 Feb 2018

with Murray Fredericks, John Young, Anne Zahalka
An unorthodox flow of images

Melbourne Festival

Centre Contemporary Photo, Melbourne (AU)
29 Sep 2017 – 12 Nov 2017

with Laurence Aberhart, Francis Alys, Paul Batt, Charles Bayliss, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Brassai, Jane Brown, Sophie Calle, Christian Capurro, Steve Carr, Mohini Chandra, Miriam Charlie …
THE CIRCLE DIVINE

Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
21 Sep 2017 – 21 Oct 2017

with Murray Fredericks, Julie Rrap
MAD LOVE

AUSTRALIA NOW 2017

ARNDT, Berlin (DE)
6 Jun 2017 – 29 Sep 2017

with Brook Andrew
Curtain Call

final exhibition

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
24 May 2017 – 8 Jul 2017

with Paul Adair, Narelle Autio, Roger Ballen, Jane Brown, Danica Chappell, Brenda L. Croft, Merilyn Fairskye, Merilyn Fairskye, Anne Ferran, Anne Ferran, Chris Fortescue, Petrina Hicks …
Summer 16/17

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2 Feb 2017 – 4 Mar 2017

with Narelle Autio, Danica Chappell, Trent Parke, Glenn Sloggett, Robyn Stacey, Justine Varga, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Emma White, Emmaline Zanelli
CCP's 30th Anniversary Fundraiser

Work will be available from over 70 leading contemporary artists

Centre Contemporary Photo, Melbourne (AU)
22 Jul 2016 – 30 Jul 2016

with Polly Borland, Darren Sylvester, Christian Thompson, Yvonne Todd
PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM

Australian women photographers 1970s–80s

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
18 Oct 2014 – 7 Dec 2014

with Micky Allan, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Carol Jerrems, Julie Rrap, Robyn Stacey
Flatlands: photography and everyday space

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
15 Sep 2012 – 3 Feb 2013

with Harold Cazneaux, Frederick Henry Evans, Simryn Gill, Fiona Hall, David Moore (AUS), Daido Moriyama, Robert Rauschenberg, Franz Roh, David Stephenson, Josef Sudek, Ingeborg Tyssen, Minor White
12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

Parallel Collisions

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (AU)
2 Mar 2012 – 29 Apr 2012

with Richard Bell, Philip Brophy, Daniel Crooks, Marco Fusinato, Shaun Gladwell, Rosemary Laing, Tom Nicholson, Max Pam, Tim Silver
Season10

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
17 Nov 2010 – 29 Jan 2011

with Narelle Autio, Petrina Hicks, Mark Kimber, William Lamson, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Robyn Stacey, William Yang
Feminism Never Happened

IMA - Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
30 Jan 2010 – 20 Mar 2010

with Peter Fraser, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, Jemina Wyman
Season 09

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2 Dec 2009 – 23 Dec 2009

with Paul Adair, Eve Arnold, Narelle Autio, Jonas Bendiksen, Elliott Erwitt, Megan Jenkinson, Alex Majoli, Alessandra Sanguinetti
thirteen

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
13 May 2009 – 6 Jun 2009

with Paul Adair, Narelle Autio, Roger Ballen, James Bryany, Petrina Hicks, Megan Jenkinson, Mark Kimber, Anne Noble, Trent Parke, Bronwyn Rennex, Glenn Sloggett, Robyn Stacey
FX in Contemporary Photography

McClelland Art Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
18 May 2008 – 10 Aug 2008

with Jane Burton, Bill Henson, Rosemary Laing, Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Polixeni Papapetrou, Patricia Piccinini , Simon Strong, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, Anne Zahalka
SEASON 07

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
28 Nov 2007 – 2 Feb 2008

with Narelle Autio, Tim Georgeson, Trent Parke, Robyn Stacey, Beverley Veasey
Human

Hous Projects, New York (US)
6 Sep 2007 – 13 Oct 2007

with Narelle Autio, Marian Drew, Trent Parke, Charles Robb, Martin Smith, Michael Zavros
Group show

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
29 Nov 2006 – 23 Dec 2006

with Narelle Autio, Christine Cornish, Cherine Fahd, Anne Ferran, Petrina Hicks, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Trent Parke
Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
19 Nov 2005 – 29 Jan 2006

with Destiny Deacon , Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Rosemary Laing, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Robyn Stacey, David Stephenson, Ingeborg Tyssen, William Yang, Anne Zahalka
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Stills South, Sydney (AU)
8 Jul 2005 – 23 Jul 2005

with Anne Ferran, Trent Parke
the children's hour

Museum of New Art (mona), Pontiac (US)
21 May 2005 – 25 Jun 2005

with Doug Aitken, Michal Chelbin, Sue de Beer, Rineke Dijkstra, Margi Geerlinks, Katy Grannan, Lauren Greenfield, Bill Henson, Ingar Krauss, Mona Kuhn, Dana Lixenberg, Loretta Lux …
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Stills South, Sydney (AU)
20 Apr 2005 – 21 May 2005

with Petrina Hicks
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Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
20 Apr 2005 – 20 May 2005

with Petrina Hicks
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Stills South, Sydney (AU)
2 Dec 2004 – 18 Dec 2004

with Brook Andrew, Anne Noble
Supernatural Artificial

contemporary photo-based art from Australia

Museum of Photography, Tôkyô (JP)
17 Jul 2004 – 29 Aug 2004

with David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Cherine Fahd, Eliza Hutchinson, Tracey Moffatt, Darren Siwes, Darren Sylvester, Monika Tichacek, Anne Zahalka
14th Biennale of Sydney

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
4 Jun 2004 – 15 Aug 2004

with AES+F, Francis Alys, Helena Almeida, Loulou Cherinet, James Coleman, Nathan Coley, XING Danwen, Matias Faldbakken, Asta Gröting, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Emiko Kasahara, Aleksandra Mir …
MAKEbelieve - photographic fictions

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
31 Jan 2004 – 13 Mar 2004

with Christine Cornish, Mark Kimber, Polixeni Papapetrou, Robyn Stacey
Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
13 Dec 2003 – 19 Feb 2004

with Douglas Gordon, Jae Hoon Lee, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Artur Zmijewski
Love at First Sight

Centre Contemporary Photo, Melbourne (AU)
20 Sep 2002 – 19 Oct 2002

with Janina Green, Tracey Moffatt, Selina Ou, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka

Events

2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Australia's preeminent photographic festival returns in 2021, with acclaimed international and Australian artist exhibitions alongside talks, workshops, symposia, public and education programs, awards

Ballarat International , Ballarat (AU)
23 Sep 2021 – 9 Jan 2022

with Steve Arnold, Robert Fielding, Lamya Gargash, Lisa Garland, Kris Graves, Pieter Hugo, Erik Kessels, Geoff Kleem, Edgar Leciejewski, Alix Marie, Linda McCartney, Gideon Mendel …
PHOTO 2020

a major new international festival of photography

PHOTO Melbourne, Melbourne (AU)
23 Apr 2020 – 10 May 2020

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Hoda Afshar, Brook Andrew, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Mathieu Asselin, Atong Atem, Ophelia Bakowski, Paola Balla, Anthea Behm, Jesse Boyd-Reid, Gabi Briggs, Arvida Bystroem …
Head On Photo Festival 2018

Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (AU)
5 May 2018 – 20 May 2018

with Nancy Borowick, Debi Cornwall, James Whitlow Delano, Shoufay Derz, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Craig Holmes, Frank Hurley, Marcus Lyon, Nasim Nasr, Thom Pierce, Norio Takasugi, Dafna Tal …
Paris Photo 2016

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Stills Gallery, Paris (FR)
10 Nov 2016 – 13 Nov 2016

with Ricky Maynard, Trent Parke, James Tylor
Paris Photo 2016

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
10 Nov 2016 – 13 Nov 2016

with Richard Avedon, Thomas Barrow, Valerie Belin, Leonard Bourgois-Beaulieu, Edward Burtynsky, Raphael Dallaporta, York der Knoefel , Omar Victor Diop, Alinka Echeverria, Masahisa Fukase, Luigi Ghirri, Paolo Gioli …