Patrick Henigan
Patrick Henigan
Painting 2, 2010
Patrick Henigan (1925-2018)
Acrylic, gesso and ink on paper
100 x 200 cm
signed verso
Exhibited: Patrick Henigan, Recent Work, Place Gallery, Melbourne, 27th Apr – 11th May 2011. (
$2,000 (unframed)
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Patrick Henigan was born 1925 in Staffordshire, UK. After working in coalmines and then active service in the British Navy during WWII he arrived in Australia in 1950. Not long after he joined the Franciscan Order.
In 1971 in Brisbane, he had his first formal introduction to art and in 1976 he attended the Brisbane College of Art. Shortly after he moved to Melbourne, enrolled at Prahran Technical College and completed his full-time diploma of art in 1978. Patrick exhibited at Pinacotheca in 1980 and 1982 and then at Niagara Galleries until 1994 and later at Watson Place Gallery.
Patrick was included in the exhibition, The Naked Face Self-portraits, at the National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, 3 Dec. 2010 to 27 Feb. 2011.
Patrick’s work is held in the Australian National Gallery (10 works), National Gallery of Victoria (3 works), Auckland Art Gallery, NZ (1 work), LaTrobe University Gallery (10 works), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (98 works), Latrobe Regional Gallery (1 work) and the The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings.