Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography.
There is another impulse or motivation that can be seen behind them, one that goes beyond their iconography of dreams, fantasies and imaginings to explore the formal properties of photography.
She has been featured extensively in national and international exhibitions, including the 2012 Adelaide Biennial Parallel Collisions;[5] Á Rebours, a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA (2012),[6] 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.
She won Australia's Portia Geach Memorial Award for women artists, for a portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences.