Patrick Hartigan
1977 Born Sydney, Australia, Currently lives in Sydney
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (class 1), University of New South Wales
2007 Master of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Stage and Anvil, Minerva Gallery, Sydney
2015
Cohort, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Protest Movement, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2014
Considered Standing, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2013
The People Will be Healed, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Reclining and so on, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2012
Hymns & Wee Plants, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2011
Mothers of, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mother’s Birthday, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2010
Family, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin
2009
The Village is Quiet, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
The Village is Quiet, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin
2008
Men & Rocks, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2007
My Neighbour is a Painter, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney Australia
2006
Word.Words, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004
Recent Works, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002
New Works, Peter Fay at Home, Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Casual Conversation, Minerva, Sydney, Australia
2014
Solitaire, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra, Victoria, Australia
Return Threshold – Michelle Nikou, Charlie Sofo, Marcin Kobylecki and Patrick Hartigan, Fontanelle Gallery and Studios, Adelaide, Australia
2013
In the House of Martha and Mary, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Octopus 13, curated by Glenn Barkley, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2012
All you need is love, Curated by Bronwyn Johnson, Chandon Presents the Melbourne Art Foundation Winter Artspace, Domaine Chandon, Coldstream, Victoria
2011
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2010
Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Contellations: A Large number of Small drawings, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2009
New Australian Art, Deloitte, Sydney
avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
the non-grand, an exploration of intimacy in contemporary art, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, Australia.
Wanderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2008
Wonderlust Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (ongoing)
Seamless – Object & Image National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Who let the dogs out – the dog in contemporary Australian art Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, New South Wales
Thoughts on Paper, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Tallis National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Regional Gallery, Victoria
2007
Images of hands Art Wranglers, Canberra, Australia
Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Bloodline: art and the horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
2006
Tomorrow, again, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2005
Imaging the Landscape, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2003
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Love Letter to China, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
The Art of Collecting Contemporary Art, a collection of new emerging artists selected by Peter Fay, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
Group exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2002
Strange Futures, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia
2001
Brett Whitely Travelling Art Award, Brett Whitely Studios, Sydney
Jenny Birt Painting Prize, College of Fine Arts (UNSW), Performance Space, Sydney
2000
Currents: Interpreting Leonardo’s Codex, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
AWARDS
2006 - Art Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2005 - Australian Postgraduate Award, University of New South Wales
2003 - AGNSW “Moya Dyring” Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2002 - Ernst Mach Painting Residency, Pontiacq, South Western France
2000 - Viewers Choice Award, Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
2000 - John Olsen Drawing Prize, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Chartwell Collection (Auckland City Art Gallery)
Wollongong University
Monash University Museum of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Barkley, G. Catalogue essay in avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009, pp. 58 - 59
Borghino, Jose. Avoiding Myth and Message, Art and Australia, Vol 47, No.1, Spring 2009. p.159
Clement, T. Critics picks, Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), 29 October 2004, p.27
Craven, O. Word art, Artist Profile, Issue 7, 2009, p. 14
Creagh, S. Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 27-28 May, 2006, p. 16
Davis, A, MCA collection: new acquisitions in context 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2011
Driessen, E. Confortable Discomfort in EyeContact, www.eyecontactsite.com/2012/04/comfortable-discomfort, accessed 04/05/12
Ed. Art & Events, Vogue Living, May/June 2009, p. 94
Ed. Artist Interview: Patrick Hartigan, artcollector.net.au/ArtistinterviewPatrickHartigan, 5 September 2011
Hartigan, Patrick, Toulouse-Lautrec, review, The Monthly, February 2013, p.56.
Hartigan, P., Anish Kapoor, review, The Monthly, March 2013
Hartigan, P., Bill Hanson’s Cloud Landscapes, review, The Monthly, September 2013
Hartigan, P., Art Gallery of NSW opens its doors to the art of Sol LeWitt, The Saturday Paper, March 22, 2014
Hartigan, P., Imagining desire at Sydney’s 19th Biennale, The Saturday Paper, April 12, 2014
Hartigan, P., The sculptural works of William Kentridge and Linda Marrinon, The Saturday Paper, May 17, 2014
Hartigan, P., Concrete ideas at MUMA, The Saturday Paper, June 21, 2014
Hartigan, P., Titian and Tintoretto bring Venetian Renaissance to the NGV, The Saturday Paper, July 12, 2014
Hartigan, P., Cloud Arch makes Sydney the city of lightness, The Saturday Paper, August 16, 2014
Hartigan, P., Joe Furlonger and John Stezaker, The Saturday Paper, August 30, 2014
Hartigan, P., Robert Rooney’s out of the ordinary photography, That Saturday Paper, September 27, 2014
Hartigan, P., Gunter Christmann exhibition outside the box, The Saturday Paper, October 25, 2014
Hartigan, P., Pop to popism at Art Gallery of NSW, The Saturday Paper, December 6, 2014
Hartigan, P., Ian Fairweather's Drunken Buddha works reunited at TarraWarra,The Saturday Paper, 7 February, 2015
Hartigan, P., James Turrell’s vestibule of lights,The Saturday Paper, 4 April, 2015
Hartigan, P., The Photograph and Australia, at AGNSW, The Saturday Paper, 2 May, 2015
Hartigan, P., Art as a Verb takes over Artspace, The Saturday Paper, 13 June, 2015
Hartigan, P., Moving pictures in Sydney galleries, The Saturday Paper, 18 July, 2015
Harvey, N. Village gone quiet, Mindfood, October 2009, p. 121
Mendelssohn, J. Out there, Australian Art Collector, Issue 34 Oct – Dec 2005
Mendelssohn, J. Fine art that comes from broad brush, The Australian Higher Education, Wednesday 18 October 2006, p. 27
O’Sullivan, J. Artist Interview: Patrick Hartigan, Australian Art Collector, October 2011