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Curriculum Vitae





Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design & Printmaking) Centre for the Arts University of Tasmania, Hobart completed in 1986.  

SELECTED   SOLO   EXHIBITIONS

2005    Word Pictures – Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
2003    Silent Recordings – Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart.
2000    Soliloquy: Conversations with the Inanimate - Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
1998    Places for the Safe & Misplaced - Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
1996    McAvery's Amazing Ornithological Exhibits & Other Oddities - Handmark Gallery.
1995    Haymish's Dilemma & Other Quandaries - Urban Cow Studio, Adelaide. 
1994    The Chosen Ones, Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
1993    Tall Stories From The Art World  - Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
1992    Recent Works by Patrick Hall  - Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne.
1992    Babel Towers and Other Constructions - The Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre
             Adelaide.
1990    Solo Exhibition - Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne.
1990    Lonely Fish, Sad Parrots and Other Stories, Entrepot - Centre for the Arts, Hobart.

SELECTED   GROUP   EXHIBITIONS

2008    A Short History of Things – Project Space, The Jam Factory, Craft & Design
             Centre, Adelaide.
2007    The Green Zone – Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
2007    Tidal Zone, Design Centre of Tasmania, Launceston.
2007    Free Range, Designed Objects Tasmania (DOT Inc) – Mawson Pavilion, Hobart.
2006    Making Relations, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart.
2006    International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery.
2005    Members’ Exhibition, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart.
2005    Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2005    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery
2005    National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2005    Different Readings, Allport Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania,
             Hobart.
2005    Members’ Exhibition, Designed Objects Tasmania (DOT Inc) – Mawson Pavilion,
             Hobart.
2005    Convergence - Carnegie Gallery, Hobart. Touring San Diego, San Fransisco &
             Chicago in 2005.
2004    White Line Fever – Academy Gallery, Launceston & Plimsol Gallery, University of
             Tasmania, Hobart.
2004    Design Island – Contemporary Design from Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum & Art
             Gallery, Hobart.
2004    Eclectica,: 160 Years of Collecting Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.
2004    Perfect Collection, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, USA.
2004    Design Island – Contemporary Design from Tasmania, Sydney Opera House,
             Object Gallery.
2004    Interpreting 2004, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.
2003    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery
2003    Roundabout – Academy Gallery, Launceston & Plimsol Gallery, University of
             Tasmania, Hobart.
2003    Design for Success – Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
2003    Future Perfect – Bett Gallery, Hobart.
2003    Positive Impact – Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
2002    Less is More/Less is a Bore - Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane.
2002    Contemporary Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story - Elvehjem Museum of Art,
             University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
2001    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery.
2001    Working Conditions - Carnegie Gallery, Hobart.
2001    Response to the Island  (In association with 10 Days on the Island Festival) - Long
             Gallery, Hobart.
2001    21st Anniversary Exhibition - Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
2001    DMC - Designer Makers Co-op Exhibition - Mawson's Pavilion, Hobart.
2000    Against the Grain (Australian Sculptural Furniture) - Brisbane City Gallery.
2000    Divergent Utopias - CAST Gallery, Hobart. 
1999    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery.
1999    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - New York City, Despard Gallery.
1999    TMAG  Commissions - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.
1998    Mapping Identity - Object Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Craft, Sydney.
1998    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - New York City, Despard Gallery.
1997    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery.
1996    Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) - Navy Pier, Chicago, Despard Gallery.
1996    Points of Diversity - Selected Contemporary Tasmanian Furniture Makers, TMAG,
             Hobart.
1996    Summoning The Spirit: Contemporary Craft & Folk Traditions – Craftspace Gallery,
             Sydney.
1995    VicHealth National Craft Awards - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 
1995     Itami Craft Centre Exhibition - Itami Craft Centre, Japan.
1995     Designers Inc - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery (T.M.A.G.), Hobart.
1994    Designer Furniture - Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
1994    Profile: Contemporary Crafts - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.
1991    Splitting Heads (Hobart Design Triennial) - Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
1990    Access (Selected Tasmanian Designers) - Tokyo, Japan.
1989    Double Vision - Despard Street Gallery, Hobart, 1989.
1989    Topping Tables - West Australian Crafts Council, Perth.
1988    Australia Furniture Expo - Darling Harbour, Sydney.

SELECTED   PUBLIC   ART   COMMISSIONS

2001    Arts Tasmania  •  Sculptural object  for reception area  •  Hobart.
2000    Hobart City Council   •  Design & construct  sculptural gates  •  Beaumaris Zoo
             Site  •  Hobart.
2000    Hobart City Council   •  Design & construct  decorative signage  •  Hobart. 
2000    Summerdale Primary School  • Sculpture  • Launceston.
1999    Royal Hobart Hospital  •  Design & construct public sculpture  •  Hobart. 
1997    Hobart City Council    •  Design & construct decorative signage  •  Wellington
             Court  -  Hobart. 
1996    Hobart City Council    •  Design & construct decorative signage, child-orientated
             sculptures & "Short Stories" images for seating  •  City Mall Redevelopment  - 
             Hobart. 
1995    Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board - Art in Public Places, Sculptural mural, Allanvale
             T.A.F.E. Launceston.
1993    Arts Tasmania, Design and construction of interior for multi-functional youth venue
             -  Burnie.
1990    Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board - Art in Public Places, Sculptural Noticeboards -
             Warrane Technical College.
1987    Member of the design team - furniture for the suite of the Premier of Tasmania.


AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS

2008     Artist-in-Residence, The Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Adelaide.
2005    University of Tasmania Foundation Graduate Award.
2004    Selected for Arts Tasmania’s inaugural Tasmanian Monograph series, Patrick Hall 
             by Grace Cochrane
2003    Board Member  •  Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart.
2001    SOFA Chicago 01 Catalogue - Selected for cover with accompanying article by
             Jane Rankin-Read
2000    Artist-in-Residence, The Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Adelaide.
1999 - 02  Board Member  •  Visual Arts/Crafts Fund  -  Australia Council.
1996    Winner  People's Award   • City of Hobart Art Prize  -  Carnegie Gallery, Hobart. 
1992    Artist-in-Residence, The Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Adelaide.
1994-95 Board Member  •  Visual Arts & Design Panel  -   Arts Tasmania.
1988    Established design company PHish Design.
1985-91 Board of Directors  •  Designer-Makers Tasmania, Co-operative Society, Ltd.


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS       

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Power House Museum, Sydney.           
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.       
J.E.T.R.O. - Department of Japanese Trade.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
2008    The Green Zone, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
2007    Tidal Zone, Furniture Designers Association, Hobart.
2006    40 Degrees South, Hobart.
2006    Making Relations, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart.
2006    International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery.
2005    Conversations with Leo Schofield, Ovation, Fox Tel.
2005     Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.   
2005    Art Monthly, October edition, cover image, Art Monthly Australia Ltd, Acton, ACT.
2005    Claiming Ground: 25 Years of Tasmania’s Art for Public Buildings Scheme, Arts
             Tasmania, Hobart.
2005    Black & White magazine, August edition..
2005    Art On View, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2005    National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2005    Artlink, vol 25 #1, “Patrick Hall’s Cabinets of Everyday Curiosities”, by Peter
             Hughes, Artlink Australia, SA.
2005    Art Monthly, #177, book review by Anne Brennan, Art Monthly Australia Ltd, Acton,
             ACT.
2005    Different Readings, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart.
2005    Convergence, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, USA.
2004    Object magazine # 45: book review by Peter Hughes - Australian Centre for Craft &
             Design
2004    The Age: “Working Large”, profile by Jennifer Verrall – 27 October, 2004
2004    Sydney Morning Herald: “Cabinet Secrets”, by Helen Greenwood – 16 September, 2004
2004    Australian Financial Review, p. 43 – 26 August, 2004
2004    Patrick Hall  by Grace Cochrane: Tasmanian Monograph Series (Arts Tasmania) –
             Thames & Hudson.
2004     Object magazine # 44: “10 Makers/40 Objects” -  Australian Centre for Craft &
             Design
2004    ABC Radio National – “The Makers”
2004    Design Island catalogue, Object – Australian Centre for Craft & Design
2004    Leatherwood Online magazine: “The Beautiful Obsessions of Mister Hall”, feature
             by Ellie Court, 9 August, 2004
2003    Artichoke: Interior Architecture & Design # 02/02 – Architecture Media
2003    (inside): interior review magazine # 27
2003    Future Perfect exhibition catalogue
2003     Australian Art Review # 3: “Loss and Longing in Hobart”, by Briony Lee Downes –
             Media Publishing
2002    Less is More, Less is a Bore – Brisbane City Gallery
2002    Contemporary Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story – Elvehjem Museum of Art,
             Madison, USA
2002    ABC TV “Coast to Coast” -  24 February, 2002
2001    SOFA Chicago 01 Catalogue - feature article by Jane Rankin-Read
2000    Against the Grain: Australian Sculptural Furniture – Brisbane City Gallery



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