Artist profile – Patrick Faulkner

College of Fine Arts, (COFA) UNSW – Alumni Association Member
College of Fine Arts, (COFA) UNSW – Postgraduate Studies
College of Fine Arts, (COFA) UNSW – Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts
City Art Institute – Diploma of Art, Visual Arts
Alexander Mackie College – Certificate in the Visual Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Untitled | French Saloon, Melbourne

2015-16
Lunacy | Mosman Art Gallery , Sydney

2012
Invisible Cities | galleryeight , Sydney

2012
Invisible Cities | galleryeight , Sydney

2010
Drawn | Untitled Gallery , Melbourne

2009
Heads | Wall Gallery , Melbourne

2008
Delayed Entry | Untitled Gallery , Melbourne

2007
Multiple gods – infinite gods | Michael Nagy Fine Art , Sydney | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne

2006
Arcadia | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne | Michael Carr Gallery , Sydney

2005
Neoclassica | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne | Michael Carr Gallery , Sydney

2004
Monumental Landscapes: 1991-2004 | Baillieu Library , Melbourne University
Deco Noir | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne

2003
Night and the City | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne

2000
Arizona / Australia | Crawford Gallery , Sydney

1999
Atmospheres | Crawford Gallery , Sydney

1998
Comoradh 1798-1998 | Sir Hermann Black Gallery , Sydney
Bushfire Series | Crawford Gallery , Sydney

1997
Villa of the Mysteries | Crawford Gallery , Sydney

1996
Ancient Britain | Crawford Gallery , Sydney

1994
Bushfire 1994 | NSW Parliament House , Sydney

1992
Las Vegas Nights | Painters Gallery , Sydney

1990
Coast Lines | Bloomfield Galleries , Sydney

1989
Mythologies | Julie Green Gallery , Sydney

1988
New Romanticism | Painters Gallery , Sydney

1987
Dreams of a Golden Age | Painters Gallery , Sydney

1986
Monuments and Memorials | Painters Gallery , Sydney

1985
Landscape Fragments | Painters Gallery , Sydney

1984
Heads and Helmets | Painters Gallery , Sydney

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2022
2088: Artists of Mosman | Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2021
2088: Artists of Mosman | Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2019
2088: Artists of Mosman | Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2018
2088: Artists of Mosman | Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2017
After Morandi: 12 Artists Reinterpret a Modern Master | Crawford Gallery, Sydney
2088: Artists of Mosman | Mosman Art Gallery , Sydney

2016
2088 | Mosman Art Gallery , Sydney

2013
Group Show | galleryeight , Sydney
underSTATEd | NSW Parliament House , Sydney

2012
Group Show | galleryeight , Sydney

2011
2088 | Mosman Art Gallery , Sydney

2010
2088 | Mosman Art Gallery , Sydney
9 x 5 | Julian Ashton School of Art , Sydney

2009
Vietnam Voices | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
Silence / Sound | Cube 32, Frankston Arts Centre , Victoria

2007
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize | Castlemaine State Festival , Castlemaine

2006
Marginal Error | Burgess Reid , Manchester, UK
Cromwell Prize Finalists | Arthouse Gallery , Sydney

2005
5 Very Different Artists | rex-livingston art dealer , Sydney
Dominique Sagan Drawing Prize | Castlemaine State Festival , Castlemaine
Known Unknowns | Span Galleries , Melbourne

2004
Cromwell’s Prize Finalists | Gallery 1601 – Australian Embassy , Washington D.C | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne | Arthouse Gallery , Sydney

2003
Urban Life | Jackman Gallery , Melbourne

2002
Paper Works | Kudos Gallery , Sydney

2001-2003
Viet Nam Voices (Touring) | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Touring Exhibition: Melbourne Museum; Long Gallery, Salamanca Place Arts Centre, (Hobart); Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory (Darwin); Toowoomba Gallery; Tamworth City Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Griffith Regional Gallery; National Museum of Australia (Canberra); Albury Regional Art Gallery

2001
Black + White | Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
COFA Alumni Prize | Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Summer Group Exhibition | Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney
Wynne Prize Finalists | Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Alumni on Paper | Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Postcards of a Nation | Red House Gallery, Sturt SA

2000
Images of Sydney | Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Summer Group Exhibition | Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney
COFA Alumni 2000 | Kudos Gallery, Sydney

1999
50/50 | Gallery 19, Sydney
On the Tiles | Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

1998
COFA Alumni 1500 | Kudos Gallery, Sydney
New Acquisitions: 1998 | Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

1997
Vibes: pacific patterns | Govett Brewster, New Plymouth, NZ
Love Letters to John McDonald | 151 Regent St. Gallery, Sydney
Artists Past, Present and Future | Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1996
Unearthed | Burgess Reid, Manchester, UK

1995
Collage and Mixed Media | ARDT Gallery, Sydney

1994
New Acquisitions | Australian War Memorial, Canberra

1992
New Art Seven | Painters Gallery, Sydney
Salon Des Refusés | S. H. Ervin Galleries

1991
Sydney: from the City to the Fringes | Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

1990
Mixed Media, Mass Media | Painters Gallery, Sydney
Visual Instinct (Excerpts) | University of NSW
Visual Instincts | Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

1989
Faber-Castell Art Prize | RAS Showgrounds, Sydney

1988
New Romantics Touring Exhibition | Regional Galleries in NSW & Qld.

1987
The Age of Collage | Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
The New Romantics | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1986
Oz Drawing Now – 6th Sydney Bienniale | Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney

1984
The Drawing Show | Painters Gallery, Sydney

Bibliography (selected)

Fourteen Hills: the San Francisco State University Review vol. 22 no.1, 2016 p.39 (illus.), p.125

‘Over the Moon with Exhibition’, Mosman Daily, 17 Sept. 2015 p.37 (illus.)

underSTATEd 2012: NSW Parliament Collection catalogue by Phil Goldsmith (NSW Parliament, 2012) (illus.)

Arthur McIntyre: Bad Blood 1960-2000 by Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Hazlehurst Regional Arts Centre & Macquarie University, 2010)

Viet Nam Voices exhibition catalogue (Casula Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre, 2009) (illus.)

Heads exhibition catalogue by Melissa Mackey 2009

Enter Art NSW Dept of Education and Training 2006 (illus.)

Beyond the Frame NSW Dept of Education and Training 2006 (illus.)

Neoclassica catalogue by Tracey McIrvine 2005

Deco Noir catalogue by Frank Malerba 2004

‘Monumental Landscapes at the Baillieu Library’, Uni. News, 15-29 Nov. 2004 p.8 (illus.)

Monumental Landscapes 1991-2004 catalogue by Morphia Grondas, 2004

The Australia Report 2004, Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C.

‘Diary’ by Holly Evans, The Age, 14 July 2004 (illus.)

Viet Nam Voices Touring exhibition catalogue (Casula Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre, 2001) p. 72 (illus.)

Images of Sydney catalogue by Belinda Webb (UNSW College of Fine Arts, 2000)

National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA): Annual Report 1998/1999 (illus.)

Images 3: Contemporary Australian Painters by Nevill Drury (Craftsman House, 1998) pp. 140, 207 & plates 142, 149

Sun Herald, Timeout, 13 Oct 1998, p. 14 (illus.)

‘Galleries’ by Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1998

Artists and Galleries on CD-ROM by Max Germaine (4th ed. Macquarie Online, 1997)

‘Galleries’ by Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 1997

In the Picture: Framing the Visual Arts by Linda Chee, Lauren Broos & Linda Shade (OUP, 1996) (illus.)

Images in Contemporary Australian Painting by Nevill Drury (Craftsman House, 1992) p. 178 & plate 165

New Art: Seven by Nevill Drury (Craftsman House, 1992) pp. 74–77 (illus.)

‘Raw Vision’ by Bronwyn Watson, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 19 April 1991

‘Collage’ No. 1, 1991, p. 10 (illus.)

‘Collage: 80-year Fade from Shock to Shadow’ by Christopher Allen, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March 1990

‘Media Victims of a Shocking Frame-up’ by Robin Robertson, Australian Financial Review, 30 March 1990

Contemporary Australian Collage and Its Origins by Arthur McIntyre (Craftsman House, 1990) p. 91 (illus.)

Artists and Galleries of Australia by Max Germain (3rd ed., Craftsman House, 1990) p. 211

‘The Australian Contemporary Art Fair’,  Sunday Herald (Melbourne), colour supplement, May 1990, p. 20 (illus.)

Australian Contemporary Drawing: Resurgence and Redefinition by Arthur McIntyre  (Boolarong Publishing, 1988), pp. 62–3 (illus.)

‘Romantics Under the Umbrella’ by John McDonald Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Sept.1987

‘Rescued from Their Ersatz Agony’ by Elwynn Lynn Weekend Australian, 26-27 Sept. 1987

Dreams of a Golden Age catalogue by Bruce James, 1987

New Romantics catalogue by Graham Sturgeon, 1987

Art and Australia, Vol. 25 (2), Summer 1987, p.201 (illus.)

Art and Australia, Vol. 23 (5), Autumn 1986, p.323 (illus.)

Collections (selected)

Microsoft Australia (Sydney) | National Archives of Ireland (Dublin) | NSW Parliament House (Sydney) | Australian War Memorial (Canberra) | Embassy of Ireland (Canberra) | University of Sydney Union Collection | University of New South Wales | University of Sydney | La Trobe University (Bundoora) | NSW Rural Fire Service | State Library of NSW (Mitchell Collection) | Sydney Grammar School | Sydney Boys’ High | Museum of Fire (Penrith) | Harper Collins (Sydney) | Sybase (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) | Garfield Robbins (Sydney) | Freehills (Melbourne) | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) | Hall and Wilcox (Melbourne)

Grants/Awards/Special Projects

2015
Exhibition Grant – Mosman Art Gallery for Lunacy

2007
Finalist – Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine

2006
Recipient Gloria Mackey Memorial Travelling Scholarship – Italy
Finalist – Cromwell’s Art Prize

2004
Art in the Library – Baillieu Library, funded by Melbourne University
Finalist – Inaugural Cromwell’s Art Prize

2002
Third Prize: Oil & Acrylic – RAS Melbourne

2001
Finalist – Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Highly commended – COFA Alumni Prize

1998
Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant for Comoradh 1798 – 1998 – with the assistance of the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA) and funding from the Australian Council for the Arts

1997
Finalist – Waverley Art Prize

1989
Finalist – Faber-Castell Art Prize

1986
Oz Drawing Now – 6th Sydney Bienniale