Patrick Haines
After graduating, he worked in film and television, gaining valuable experience as a sculptor on productions such as Spitting Image and the films of Aardman Animations.
Patrick’s sculptures explore an often unsettling alliance between the natural and the man made world. Using a diverse range of materials and found objects, his artworks reflect the relationship between nature and the confines of human society.
At first glance these unisons seem harmonious but on closer inspection reveal a disturbing narrative – interior space is colonised by insects and birds, while constructions in blackthorn and hawthorn bristle with menace. Patrick’s sculptures often hold ideas of myth and spirituality that weave subconsciously throughout his artworks.
1961 Born, Walsall
1976-77 City & Guilds Horticulture
1977-79 Foundation in Fine Art
1980-83 Art Sculpture, North Staffs Ply, BA Hons First
1985 Sculpture Shed, Bristol, Founder member
Present Lecturer, Sculpture (BA Hons), Bath Spa University
Selected Exhibitions
2024
The British Art Fair 2024, Beaux Arts Gallery
2019
The Summer Show, mixed exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Spike Island Open Studios, Bristol
AAF Spring, Battersea, Stand C3, Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair Islington, Stand G20, Beaux Arts Bath
2018
Winter Show, Beaux Arts Bath
AAF Battersea Spring, London with Beaux Arts Bath
2017
Fresh Air Sculpture Show, Quinington
‘Small Works for Christmas’, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’, Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
2016
Petrichor (n) The smell of earth after the rain, Greek Street, Soho
2015
Abditory, group exhibition, East Dulwich
Odyssey: The Journey Continues, The Chapel of St. Barnabas, Soho
2014
Odyssey: Part 2, Church of St Edmund, Lombard St., London
2013
Commissioned by Crest Nicholson Regeneration, ‘Herschel Chairs’ Public sculpture, Bath
Saude, bo.lee Gallery
Odyssey: Part 1, group exhibition, Bath Abbey
2012
Nocturne, bo.lee Gallery, Bath
Unnatural: Natural History, RWA Bristol, Curate by Coates & Scarry
2011
Shadowside, Backall Studios, Shoreditch
Darkness to Light, Octagon Chapel, Bath
2010
Soul Object Pyrus Gallery, Newburgh St., London W1
From Within The Bungalow
Wood for the Trees, Octagon Chapel, Bath
2009
Solo Projects Art Fair, Basel
Myth & History, The Bristol Gallery
2008
Mauger Modern Gallery, Bath
Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
Open Sculpture Show, St Ives
2006-09
Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol