Patricia Harry OAM: Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications and Experience

1951 - 54 Solicitors’ Admission Board, Sydney 1960 - 66 Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Wollongong Technical College 1966 - 69 St Pauls College, Bellambi

1972 - 73 Illawarra Grammar School, Wollongong 

1974 - Daramalan College, Canberra 

1974 - 75 Canberra Technical College 

1976 - 96 Australian National University, Institute of the Arts, Canberra School of Art, Painting and Foundation Workshops 

1987 - Triangle Art Workshop and Exhibition, New York State, USA 

1990 - A/g Senior Lecturer, Head of workshop (Painting), Canberra School of Art 

1992 - Visiting Artist, Silpakorn University,  Bangkok, Thailand 

1995 - 96 Artist in residence, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 

1996 - Artist- in-residence, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 

1998 - ‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie, St Setiers, France

Solo Exhibitions

1971Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong 

1971Lidums Gallery, Adelaide 

1972Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong  

1974‘Buy Them Before It’s Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 

1975‘It’s Never Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 

1976University of Wollongong Union 

1983Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney 

1984Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 

1985The Irving Sculpture Gallery, 

1985Sydney Arts Council Gallery, Canberra 

1986Solander Gallery, Canberra 

1988DC - Art, Sydney 

1989‘Monotypes’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 

1991Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 

1992‘The Family’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 

1993‘A Company of Strangers’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 

1993Sydney Anima Gallery, Adelaide 

1994Meridian Gallery, Melbourne 

1995‘Occupied Territory’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 

1995‘The Participants’, Anima Gallery, Adelaide 

1996Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok,  Thailand 

1996‘Pat Harry:Silver Anniversary, 25 Years of the Artist’s Work’, Nolan Gallery, Canberra 

1997‘The Participants and Others’, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 

1998Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 

1999Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 

2000‘Pat Harry: Cadenza; paintings 1999-2000’ Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 

2001‘A thousand whispers’ Michael CarrArt Dealer, Sydney 

2002‘this form, this face, this life..’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney  

2003‘The Lotus Eaters’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 

2004‘Emerald City’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 

2004‘Hanging out’ William Mora Gallery, Melbourne 

2004‘Recent works’ Solander Gallery Canberra   

2007 ‘Pat Harry: A Life in Paint’ Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2009 ‘A Retrospective’ July-September 2009, Wollongong City Gallery 

2017   Heads UpJanet Clayton Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

1973Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong 

1974Daramalan College Invitation Art Exhibition, Canberra 

1974Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong 

1975‘Capital Art’ Anna Simons Gallery,  Canberra 

1975‘Artists for Labor’   

1975‘It’s Great to be an Australian Woman’, Hogath Galleries, Sydney 

1981University of N.S.W. Union, Sydney 

1982Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra 

1986‘Time & Place’, CSA Gallery, Canberra 

1987Triangle ArtWorkshop and Exhibition, New York State, USA 

1987 & 89 Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra 

1992 ‘Drawing ‘92’, CSA Gallery, Canberra  

1992 ‘Compact Art’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 

1993‘Post Script’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne 

1994‘Furniture by Pat Harry & Philip Spelman’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne 

1994‘Playing with Fire’, Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra 

1995Canberra National Sculpture Forum 

1996‘Speculations 1’, ANCA Gallery, Canberra 

1997‘Devoured by Paint’, Olsen Carr ArtDealers, Sydney 

1998‘Desperately seeking Canberra’, Canberra Musum and Gallery 

1998‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie,  

1998St Setiers, France 

1999‘Collective wisdom’, Canberra Museum and Gallery 

1999  ‘A Selection of Important International and Australian  

1999Paintings and Sculpture’, Michael Carr Art Dealer , Sydney 

1999‘Old and New - The Millennium Summer exhibition 1999-2000’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 

2000‘Summer Exhibition’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 

2000‘Sculpture from the Sea’ (touring exhibition New South Wales), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Manly ArtGallery & Museum  

2003‘Permanent Visions’ Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT 

2016    People: Janet Clayton Gallery

Commissions 

* 1996 South Sydney City Council in assoc. Soroptomists Society.  Pat Harry and Philip Spelman - Sculptural chair for King Street, Newtown 

* 2000 ACT Government. Pat Harry and Philip Spelman, sculptural furniture (seats) for Civic Square Canberra.  

* 2001 ACT Government. Pat Harry and Philip Spelman, sculptural furniture (seats) for Civic Square Canberra. (Second commission)  

Selected Bibliography

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry’, Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, 1982 

- Lynn, Elwyn‘Australian Newsletter’, Art InternationalVol. XXV/3-4, March 1992 

- Haynes, Peter‘Canberra Scene’, Art & Australia, Autumn, 1986 & 1987 

- ‘Triangle Art Workshop’, New York, 1988 

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry: Through Two Decades’, Canberra, 1989 

- Kleinert, Sylvia‘The Family Series’, Sydney, 1992 

- Anderson, Partricia‘A Company of Strangers’, Sydney, 1993 

- Haynes, Peter ‘Capital Art’, Art & Australia, Sydney, 1993 

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry, The Business of Painting’, Craft Arts International, No. 32, 1994 

- Haynes Peter ‘Pat Harry; Silver Anniversary’, Nolan Gallery, Canberra, 1996 

- Barbara Tuckerman, ‘Cadenza: paintings 1999-2000’ , Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney, 2000 

- Peter Harris, ‘Driven to abstraction’ , Asian Art News, Vol 11, No 5, 2001 pp 52-55

- Patricia Anderson, ‘The Trouble with Harry’ Australian Art Review’  issue 3 Nov 2003 - Feb 2004 p 103

Reviews 

‘Adelaide Advertiser’, Adelaide JN 1993 

‘Age’, Melbourne.   Sue Cramer 5/1984  

‘Australian’, Sydney.     Elwynn Lynn 10 11/1981 

  Elwynn Lynn 2/1985 

‘Canberra Times’, Canberra. G de Groen 10/1975. 

    Sasha Grishin 24/6/1982 

    Sasha Grishin 2/4/1989  

    Sasha Grishin 6/1991 

    Sasha Grishin 17/7/1996 

‘Daily Telegraph’, Sydney.  G Richardson 20/4/1974 

W E Pidgeon 7/1975     

‘Sydney Morning Herald’.  Sandra McGrath 17/4/1983 

    Lynette Fern 1/5/1992 

‘Wollongong Mercury’.  Col Jordan8/1971 

    Col Jordan6/1972 

    Col Jordan 2/11/1972    

    Dennis Kocks 11/1975  

Collections 

National Gallery of Australia 

Wollongong University Art collection

Artbank 

ACT Arts Council 

Australian National University 

Canberra Museum and Gallery 

Canberra School of Art 

Australian National University 

Australian Embassy, Bangkok 

Australian Embassy, Dubai 

Corporate and private collections throughout Australia and in London, Vienna and Washington

The University of Wollongong Art Collection

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart