
Way Through is Patrick Hartigan’s second solo exhibition with 1301SW. Following his 2025 Melbourne presentation, which surveyed 15 years of his distinctive practice, this exhibition in Sydney consists entirely of new paintings.
As always, Hartigan’s surfaces help to ground gesture and develop paintings as sites of destruction and renewal. The surfaces and materials contain a luminosity, where what lies beneath emits and releases energy through openings and slipstreams that draw attention to the whole. Within the larger group of works sits a selection of dwellings. Here the façades and overall structures act as possible metaphors for the way paintings operate: framing, flattening, and providing glimpses of interiority.
Hartigan will be presenting a survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra in 2027.













Patrick Hartigan was born in Sydney in 1977 and relocated to Dunedin, New Zealand in 2010. Hartigan’s practice brings together drawings, paintings, film and written work made in response to his experiences of domesticity, travel and found imagery.
1301SW was founded in 2022 in Naarm/Melbourne’s inner-south, embracing the region while having strong roots internationally. Extending from its Melbourne base, the gallery expanded its unique and ambitious exhibition program to Gadigal/Sydney with the opening of a second gallery space in late 2024.

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