AUSTRALIAN ART
- 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 33 cm. First Edition #250924
- Hockey, Patrick, 1948-
- Hockey, Patrick, 1948-1992
- Hockey, Patrick, 1948-1992 — Catalogs
- Painters — Australia — Biography
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Patrick Hockey was mostly a self taught artist. He travelled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and England and returned to Australia in 1976.
Patrick Hockey came from a grazing background, having grown up on Abercorn near Eidsvold in the Burnett district, where many earlier owners of Nindooinbah had taken up stations. Hockey became a well-known artist, whose work is featured in major public collections in Australia and overseas and in private collections such as those of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and Margaret Rockefeller.
Patrick Hockey’s work reflected his upbringing on a grazing property. He painted herds of cattle, cattle sales, drovers, country racetracks, water tanks, windmills, miners, outback landscapes and bush people, always with a great sense of humour. Later in his career, Hockey moved more towards painting interiors and flowers and, at Nindooinbah, painted several interiors, as well as the gardens, the flowers and the pet Dalmatians. The tomb of one of many Dalmatians who have lived at Nindooinbah through the decades is located just inside the eastern garden fence. Patrick Hockey lived for many years in Sydney’s fashionable eastern suburbs and was well-known for lavish entertaining many celebrities in the world of the arts from films to painting. In this sense, he was an ‘urban’ person. Nevertheless, Hockey retained interests in the Burnett region where he bred Santa Gertrudis cattle.
He was the first Nindooinbah resident owner to combine distinctly urban values with more traditional rural pursuits. At Nindooinbah, the Hockey era marked an ‘opening’ of Nindooinbah, once a very private world limited to extended families and their guests, to wide publicity in newspapers and popular home journals and to broader community causes. As in Sydney, Hockey entertained many celebrities at Nindooinbah.
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