Patrick is a Brisbane based photographer and artist originally from Bundaberg, in 2017 he graduated with his Bachelor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art majoring in Art Practice with a minor in Commercial Photography. In 2018 Patrick completed his Honours studies, resulting in the series Not Man Enough, where he worked in self-portraiture on an semi-autoethnographic project that highlights problematic masculine heroes and idols in his hometown of Bundaberg and Brisbane.
In 2020 Patrick’s work was shown in the exhibition Triangles Are Not My Genre. Continuing to focus his work on monuments and masculinity, Patrick is currently working on an ongoing photographic survey on the bronze statues across Brisbane. In 2021 the progress of this survey was shown in the solo exhibition 55 - 13 - 38.
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