BIO
Patricia Malt is a Meanjin/Brisbane artist who challenges art historical and modern media portrayal of women, confronting stereotypes and asserting women’s authority and power over their own experiences.
Working across a multidisciplinary practice, including drawing, painting, fabric and collage, cameraless photographic techniques, performance and sculpture, Malt creates transgressive, disgraphic works focused around the iconography of naked women. Disrupting ideals and hijacking the tradition of the ‘nude’ Malt works to challenge traditional perceptions of female beauty, and declares a feminist arena, offering audiences a site for reflection on alternative possibilities.
Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Studio Art) with Distinction at Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Design, Malt has exhibited in both solo and group shows in Brisbane and interstate and has been an art prize finalist.
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Patricia Malt
Born in 1964 in Brisbane, Australia
Resides and works in Turrbul/Sandgate, Queensland, Australia
Education
2025 Bachelor of Fine Art (Studio Art) with Distinction, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Design
2008 Julian Ashton Art School
1988 Bachelor of Education, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Solo Exhibitions
2025 XX: Unfixed Variables, Grey Street Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design
Group Exhibitions
2025 Drawing 50, Land Street Gallery, Toowong, Brisbane
2025 Fertile Terrains, Field Trip Gallery, Paddington. Brisbane
2024 BMG Contemporary Issues Portraiture Competition Finalist Exhibition,Webb Gallery Queensland College of Art and Design
2023 Future Folklorics QCAD Graduate Show, Griffith University Queensland College of Art and Design
2023 Visions, Brisbane Insitute of Art
2023 EQUS Quantum Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, m2 Gallery, Surrey Hills Sydney
2022 BMG Legal Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art
2022 Connections, Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art
2022 Smallacombe Portrait Prize Finalist Exhibition, Gallery One, Adelaide
2019 End of Year Showcase, Brisbane Insititute of Art
Art Prizes
2024 BMG Contemporary Issues Portraiture Competition (Finalist)
2023 EQUS Quantum Art Prize (Finalist)
2022 Smallacombe Portrait Prize (Finalist)
2021 BMG Legal Art Prize (Finalist)
Bibliography
2023 2023 QCA Graduate Exhibition, Lemonade Letters to Art, Mayhew, Louise