Pat Brassington’s allusive, fetishistic images are at once beautiful and threatening. Intimate in scale, voyeuristic in intent, wryly humorous in effect, they conjure up a netherworld of surreal, soft-focus decadence. A knee, a tongue, an arm half-hidden behind gauze: Brassington teases out the erotic potential of the human body with subtlety and precision.

Pat Brassington is considered this country’s key photomedia surrealist and is represented in many Australian public gallery collections. Her work was included in the 2004 Sydney Biennale and in 2002 she was honoured with a major retrospective at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University. She lives in Hobart.

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Pat Brassington’s CV