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ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
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Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Pat Hoffie is based in Brisbane and is an Associate Professor at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her formal art education includes study at the Queensland College of Art and the University of Wollongong, Australia. Hoffie exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally, and her art is represented in leading public and private collections. She has received numerous national awards and is a regular contributor to national arts journals and to contemporary art debate and development. As part of her wide ranging activities, she has delivered keynote speeches at Australia's leading art forums, such as the Biennale of Sydney, Perspecta and the Asia-Pacific Triennial, which she has also participated as a curator. For many years Hoffie has been exploring issues concerning social justice in her art practice. Over the last decade she has been particularly interested in cross-cultural artistic engagements in the Asia-Pacific region. She undertook the first Australian Council's Visual Arts residency in the Philippines, where she held solo exhibitions, lectured at universities and wrote about her experiences and ideas in numerous national and international journals. The strong connections she developed with the Philippines have been reinforced by return visits and projects there and in Australia. Additionally, Hoffie has received grants to undertake residencies in Vietnam, Japan and Spain. Hoffie's recent work presented in this exhibition deals with refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, and offers a questioning of the Australian government's current policies on migration, border patrol and refugees, and the media's role in the social maintenance of such policies.
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Pat Hoffie |
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