PATRICK MCDAVITT
patrickmcdavitt@hotmail.com

Since 1991, Wellington, Aotearoa (NZ).
Patrick McDavitt is an artist working on Gadigal land in Sydney. He graduated from UNSW Art and Design with First Class Honours in 2020 and his work Straitlines was exhibited in the Hatched National Graduate show 2020 at PICA in Perth. This work was more recently exhibited in CHTHONIC CHORUS at Incinerator Gallery in Naarm. Patrick has exhibited consistently at various Sydney galleries and ARI’s including Flow Studios, Kudos, AIRspace and Our Neon Foe. His works Dog chain I and II were shortlisted for the Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change in 2023. He is currently developing work for exhibition in Revealing Dress, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre at the end of 2025.
Patrick works in ceramics and mixed media in an experimental, practice driven approach. Through his practice, he creates ‘queer artefacts’ by imbuing ceramic works with his own lived experiences, in doing so he proposes new ways of generating and presenting queer histories. Through immersive installations Patrick wields and re-purposes traditional methods of display used in museums to present his own intimate and minor histories, ones which do not rely on didactic representations of queer life, but actively force the viewer to discern their own meaning. 
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2025   (upcoming) - Revealing Dress, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2025 - CHTHONIC CHORUS, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2024 - Inside are the Seeds, Newtown Art Seat, Sydney NSW
2023 - Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2023 - Objects of Display, AD Space, Sydney
2022 - Fieldwalk, AIRspace Projects, Sydney
2021 - Reification Complex, Our Neon Foe, Sydney
2021 - A Group Show, AIRspace Projects, Sydney
2020 - Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 
2019 - Undisciplined, Curated by Cal Agnew, AD Space, Sydney
2019 - Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Curated by Kurt Schranzer, AD Space, Sydney
2019 - Kudos Emerging Artist and Designer Awards, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2019 - Heirlooms for Mutant Children, Kudos Gallery, Sydney  
2018 - Opening: Mucusbubble X Fork, Flow Studios, Sydney
EDUCATION
2021-2024 - Master of Fine Arts, UNSW Art and Design, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
2015-2019 - Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (First Class), UNSW Art and Design, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
RELEVANT WORK
2019-Current - Studio Manager, Jamie North Studio
2023-2024 - Teacher, UNSW Art Design and Architecture
2018-2020 - Studio Assistant, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran