1. Pat HARRY
Born in 1931 Sydney, lives and works in Sydney
STUDIED:
1951 – 54 Solicitors’ Admission Board, Sydney
1960 - 66 Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics,
Wollongong Technical College
TEACHING:
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
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
1997 Painting, full time, Sydney
EXPERIENCE
1987 Triangle Art Workshop and
Exhibition, New York State, USA
1992 Visiting Artist, 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
Lidums Gallery, Adelaide
1972 Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong
1974 ‘Buy Them Before It’s Too Late’,
Hogath Galleries, Sydney
1975 ‘It’s Never Too Late’, Hogath
Galleries, Sydney
1976 University of Wollongong Union
1983 Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1984 Christine Abrahams Gallery,
Melbourne
1985 The Irving Sculpture Gallery,
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
Sydney Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1994 Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1995 ‘Occupied Territory’, Crawford
Gallery, Sydney
‘The Participants’, Anima Gallery,
Adelaide
1996 Gallery of the Faculty of Painting,
Sculpture & Graphic Arts, Silpakorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand
‘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
‘Hanging out’
William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
‘Recent works’
Solander Gallery Canberra
2007 Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
Pat Harry: A Life in Paint
2009 July-September 2009
Wollongong City Gallery-A
Retrospective
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1973 Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong
1974 Daramalan College Invitation Art
Exhibition, Canberra
Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong
1975 ‘Capital Art’ Anna Simons Gallery,
Canberra
‘Artists for Labor’
‘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
‘Compact Art’, Ben Grady Gallery
ACT
1993 ‘Post Script’, Meridian Gallery,
Melbourne
1994 ‘Furniture by Pat Harry & Philip
Spelman’, Meridian Gallery,
Melbourne
‘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

2. 1998 ‘Desperately seeking Canberra’,
Canberra Musum and Gallery
‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le
croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie,
St Setiers, France
1999 ‘Collective wisdom’, Canberra
Museum and Gallery
‘A Selection of Important
International and Australian
Paintings and Sculpture’, Michael
Carr Art Dealer , Sydney
‘Old and New - The Millennium
Summer exhibition 1999-2000’,
Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2000 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Michael Carr
Art Dealer, Sydney
‘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)
COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Australia
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.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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:

3. ‘Adelaide Advertiser’, 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