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 1971 Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong 1971 Lidums Gallery, Adelaide 1972 Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong 1974 ‘Buy Them Before It’s Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1975 ‘It’s Never Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1976 University of Wollongong Union 1983 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney 1984 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1985 The Irving Sculpture Gallery, 1985 Sydney Arts Council Gallery, Canberra 1986 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1988 DC - Art, Sydney 1989 ‘Monotypes’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 1991 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 1992 ‘The Family’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 1993 ‘A Company of Strangers’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 1993 Sydney Anima Gallery, Adelaide 1994 Meridian Gallery, Melbourne 1995 ‘Occupied Territory’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney 1995 ‘The Participants’, Anima Gallery, Adelaide 1996 Gallery 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 1998 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 1999 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 2000 ‘Pat Harry: Cadenza; paintings 1999-2000’ Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney 2001 ‘A thousand whispers’ Michael Carr Art 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 Group Exhibitions 1973 Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong 1974 Daramalan College Invitation Art Exhibition, Canberra 1974 Wollongong 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 1981 University of N.S.W. Union, Sydney 1982 Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra 1986 ‘Time & Place’, CSA Gallery, Canberra 1987 Triangle Art Workshop 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 1995 Canberra National Sculpture Forum 1996 ‘Speculations 1’, ANCA Gallery, Canberra 1997 ‘Devoured by Paint’, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 1998 ‘Desperately seeking Canberra’, Canberra Musum and Gallery 1998 ‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie, 1998 St Setiers, France 1999 ‘Collective wisdom’, Canberra Museum and Gallery 1999 ‘A Selection of Important International and Australian 1999 Paintings 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 Art Gallery & Museum 2003 ‘Permanent Visions’ Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
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)
SelectedBibliography
- Haynes, Peter ‘Pat Harry’, Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, 1982 - Lynn, Elwyn ‘Australian Newsletter’, Art International Vol. 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 Jordan 8/1971 Col Jordan 6/1972 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