2025

Patrick is interested in the notion of transition between real and metaphorically constructed space, the boundaries and opacities of colour, line and edge and the subsequent effects when they meet, merge or dissolve. Working in a reductive and non figurative manner offers him the freedom to filter a variety of inspirations, ideas and experience through exploring the relationships of simple formal elements. A major preoccupation of his work over the last decade takes inspiration from details of his immediate environment, domestic settings and places of personal connection, with glimpses of intersections that commonly appear more in our peripheral vision now taking centre stage as the impetus for his compositions. He works in a variety of formats in 2 and 3 dimensions and his practice oscillates between painting and printmaking, both processes increasingly important in how they are informing each other.

Patrick lives and works in Brighton and he has exhibited across the UK and Europe.

Awards:

Arts Council, 2003, 2019
Public Art
Brighton Blow Commission Winner 2012 - 2013 with Portrait of the Artist - the
face behind the façade. Phoenix Arts Association, Brighton.

Curating

2025 - H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G- Postcards for Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

2024 - Sea-saw - touring exhibition from the Brighton of the North to the Brighton of the South, Nairn Arts Centre and Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery

2024 - H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R ­, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

2020 H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G x2 Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

2019 After Hours, Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, Brighton

2018 H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton   

2018 - Dirty Work, Brighton Pop Up Gallery, (with Ian Hodgson)                    

2014 20 Painters, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton                                                       

2014 A3, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton,                                                                   

2013 32 Paintings, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Glimpses, Pheonix Gallery, Brighton

2016 Retreating Light, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2015 'Wavelengths', The Education Centre, Homerton University Hospital, London.
2010 ‘Excavations’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2010 ‘You Make Me Gay’, The Oriental Hotel, Brighton

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 - H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G- Postcards for Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (Sluice Worldbuilding expo)

2024 - Sea-saw - touring exhibition from the Brighton of the North to the Brighton of the South, Nairn Arts Centre, Scotland and Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery

2024 - focus : united kingdom - geometric abstraction exhibition - with Saturation Point at non-sofia gallery and archive, sofia, Bulgaria

2024 - Ferens Gallery, Hull

2024 - H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G at Minories Gallery Colchester as part of Sluice Vernacular Expo)

2024 - Brighton Salon, Tichborne Projects, Brighton

2024 - H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R ­, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

2023 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London

2023 - A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery

2023 - On Paper- Tinta Invisible, Barcelona

2023 - Serigraph - Exhibition by members of East side Print Brighton, Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery

2022 - Ryebank Gallery, Rye, Sussex

2022 - 7, with Ruminators Art Collective, Phoenix Project Space, Brighton

2022 - Seedbomb, Terrace Gallery, Walthamstow

2021 - A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings

2020 -  H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G_­x2, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

2019 – 138th Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2019 – RWA Annual Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2019 – Reunion, Gallerie Inspire, Azille, France

2019 138th ANNUAL EXHIBITION,Museum of Ulster, Belfast

2019 Reunion, Inspire Gallery, Azille, France

2019 Brighton Festival Exhibition, Window Gallery, Phoenix, Brighton

2019 Arc angle plane form, Gallery 57, Arundel

2018  Hartggerston, The Barge House, London                                                       

2018  Phoenix Studios Members Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton             

2018  H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G, Phoenix Gallery,  Brighton,                     

2017  Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 2017  Via Arts Prize, Embassy of Brazil, London 2017  Present Tense, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton                                  2017  Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair, with Frickleton Fine Art 2016  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2016  East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 2016  Festival Show, Naked Eye Gallery, Hove 2016  Contemporary Retrospective, Gallery 40, Brighton 2015  Framing Fictions, Harts Lane Gallery, New Cross, London 2014  Four, Hop Gallery, Lewes 2013  Together, Occupy My Time Gallery, Deptford, London 2013  Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Alex McArthur Antiques, Brighton 2013  32 Paintings, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton 2012  Revelations, Group 5 @ Naked Eye Gallery, Hove 2012  New Works, Naked Eye Gallery, Hove 2011  Brave New Worlds: Utopias/Dystopias, Riverside Gallery, Richmond 2011  North and South, Naked Eye Gallery, Hove 2009  Gallery 100, Brighton 2008  Blenheim Crescent Gallery, London 2008  Affordable Art Fair, London 2007  Chase Exhibition, RCA, London 2007  Hicks Gallery, London 2005  Hackney Empire, London 2005  Hicks Gallery, London 2004  Thebes Gallery. Lewes 2004  Hilton Mayfair Hotel, London 2003  City College Gallery, Brighton 2003  Royal Society of Artists, London 2003  Fresh Art, Islington, London 2003  Gallery 100, Brighton 2002  Brighton College Gallery, Brighton 2001  American Express House, Brighton