PAT BRASSINGTON is part of the exhibition LEGACY, now open online via Wyndham Art Gallery. This exhibition opens up a dialogue between six artists to consider what we keep, what we share and what we leave behind.
Brassington’s surrealist photo-media works are eerie and inviting, like snippets of dreams hiding in the corners of memory. They act as a counterpoint to Liam Benson’s photo and video pieces that feed on the aesthetic of the Australian gothic.
“Brassington has never stopped making works that startle and astonish, that create chills and uncanny flushes, night sweats and eerie incantations of strange eroticism. In many ways she forms a bedrock to this exhibition. Brassington has never eschewed crediting other giants in her creative evolution, from the early Surrealists to the bleak majesty of literary giant Cormac McCarthy. And there can be no doubt that her legacy has helped carve new spaces for younger Australian artists (especially, but by no means exclusively, female artists) to traverse,” writes Dr Ashley Crawford in the catalogue essay.
LEGACY is co-curated by Caroline Esbenshade & Dr Megan Evans, and continues until 11 October.
View the exhibition here
Read the catalogue essay here
