Pat Brassington

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

Quotes

• “To decode the patterns of correspondences as if they were symbolic would be like trying to psychoanalyse the window of a tumble dryer”.
  • "Pat Brassington". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
• “I am walking the fine line between something that is beautiful and its antithesis.”
• Butler, Rex; Ferrell, Robyn; Wagstaff, Camilla (8 October 2020). "Pat Brassington: Something beautiful & its antithesis". Art Collector Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.

External Links

• "Brassington’s images are strangely mute and even withdrawn, for all of their apparently provocative content. There is another impulse or motivation we can see behind them, one that goes beyond their iconography of dreams, fantasies and imaginings to explore the formal properties of photography."
  • Butler, Rex; Ferrell, Robyn; Wagstaff, Camilla (8 October 2020). "Pat Brassington: Something beautiful & its antithesis". Art Collector Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.