Pat Brassington

Exhibition

Pat Brassington:
Á Rebours

A major survey of photo-based works by Hobart-based artist, Pat Brassington, A Rebours was part of ACCA’s ongoing Influential Australian Artists series. The exhibition brought together images from as early as 1980, shifting from analogue to digital production, showing Brassington...
Exhibition

Pat Brassington: Gentle

In the grand and long tradition of surrealism in photography, one of Australia’s foremost photographers, Pat Brassington exhibited her latest series of doctored, digital prints. Gentle was a collection of images ‘gently’ but profoundly altered...
Exhibition

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours, on tour at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours is a major survey by one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. This is the first extensive gathering of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through...
Exhibition

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours, on tour at the Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania

A major survey of one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. This is the first extensive tour of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography...
Video

Á Rebours, interview at ACCA 2012

...www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNg2BaPP-8c Pat Brassington Speaks about her practice, Beauty, her use of source material and colour, and her show Á...
Press Release

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours

...11 August - 23 September 2012 A major survey by one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. This is the first extensive gathering of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography.
Publication

Pat Brassington: Gentle

Publication

Pat Brassington:
Á Rebours

...of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography. Full colour publication71 pages...
Product

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours catalogue

...gathering of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography. Full colour publication 71 pages...
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2013

In 2013 ACCA took art up, down and around, delivering its usual program of galvinising exhibitions inside the gallery and touring Pat Brassington’s exhibition À Rebours to the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and the Te Tui Centre for the Arts, Auckland. In December ACCA also...
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Public programs, education, and events

...writer, social commentator and co-author, Monica Dux; and psychologist, Milena Mirabelli discussed feminism, fetishism, surrealism and psychoanalysis. Chaired by Professor of Art Theory, Dr Anne Marsh. Held in conjunction with the Pat Brassington: A Rebours...
Press Release

Mikala Dwyer

...documenting the artists’ career. Previous artists in the series include Pat Brassington, John Nixon, Lyndal Jones, A Constructed World, Peter Cripps, and Domenico de Clario.Goldene Bend’er runs from May 25 – July 28, alongside the exhibition One of the Things that Makes Me...
Program

Amelia Jones — Essentialism, Feminism, and Art

Photography, since 1980 (Macmillan, 2010), Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph (Quintus/University of Tasmania, 2006), The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Macmillan, 2003) and Body and Self: Performance Art in Australian, 1969–1992 (Oxford...
Press Release

Introducing The Macfarlane Fund and The Macfarlane Commissions at ACCA

...thrilled to know we have established the MacFarlane Fund in his name, to support and help artists of this caliber, and at a senior level.” The inaugural recipient of the Don Macfarlane prize is Pat Brassington.   THE MACFARLANE COMMISIONS AT ACCA...
Press Release

Influential Australian Artist Series 2019 Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting

...of artists’ work, recent exhibitions in this series have focused on artists including Claire Lambe, TV Moore, Mikala Dwyer, Pat Brassington, David Noonan and John Nixon. Tom Nicholson: Lines Towards Another...
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A Conversation with Jenepher Duncan

...projects with Australian artists like Derek Kreckler, Pat Brassington, Louise Paramor, Marco Fusinato, David Noonan, James Angus, Philip Samartzis, Philip Brophy, Danius Kesminas and Mike Stevenson and took ACCA offsite with his poster project for hoardings on Federation Square, Bill Posters...