Pat Brassington
Judges
set of 9 gelatin silver prints on mural paper
AP from an edition of 1/1 + AP
8 works: 49.5 x 40.5 cm (frame); 1 work: 28 x 56.2 cm (frame)
Price on Application
Provenance:
The artist
Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Acquired from the above by the present owner
'Brassington produces startling, enigmatic works in which meaning is rarely immediately apparent. As visually arresting as her images are, they can be perplexing, or appear somehow private, as if meaning is to be found lying somewhere below their surfaces. They hint at motive - at how and why we feel, think and act in the ways we do - without yielding to direct illustration. In her work from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s, nothing is revealed with pictorial clarity. The works Brassington produced over this time are serial or accumulative. This composite of multiple image structures combine both photographs by the artist and other images, including other people's personal photographs, postcards, illustrations, from art and medical books, and stills from horror films....
During this period Brassington often worked with grid forms or rows of images, as if to contrast the sense of rational order with the stereotypically disorderly realm of the (feminism) sense." (Blair French & Daniel Palmer, Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, Sydney, 2009, p. 15)
