Image credit: John Pratt, Shoreline, 2019, ed. of 28. relief print, 28 x 25.3 cm.
JOHN PRATT Working with Patsy over the course of nearly 20 years was a remarkable privilege. As both artist and educator she established a culture of passionate creative and intellectual inquiry within the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop and as a lecturer she challenged each cohort of students with questions which addressed their role and aspirations as contemporary artists. Accompanying this rigor was an ethos of intense and playful experimentation and research – it was a context which was designed to extend both our curiosity and our sense of ‘possibility’ and it enabled successive generations of students to forge a creative practice which expressed and articulated their understanding of the world around them. John Pratt is represented by Beaver Galleries, Canberra.