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Patrick Hall

By Artist Profile | Published November 12, 2023

“I am hoping to be a vector for empathy in a world no longer stable, where global ruins and war remind us of the way lives appear and suddenly disappear, the way a life can be made redundant in the almost imperceptible catch of a breath … all that is left is the shadow.” Hall’s […]

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Patrick Hall

By Artist Profile | Published February 11, 2022

Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis. In 2001 Hall became the first non-American artist to feature on the cover of the SOFA exhibition catalogue. The reason Hall (born in 1962) was a hit at this fair […]

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Patrick Hall: Made of Broken Pieces

By Artist Profile | Published September 21, 2021

He’s known for intricately detailed sculptures and furniture, but Patrick Hall’s recent work, The Torn Whole, 2020, features crudely-sketched beasties with beady eyes, toothy mouths and fabulous eyelashes. Hall calls it an “exercise in trying to get me to draw more freely.” He hasn’t completely let go. Countering the free drawing and folds of backlit […]

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