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Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.
Patricia Piccinini
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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.
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I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.
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My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.
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I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.
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Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.
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I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.
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It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.
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I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.
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The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.
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I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.
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I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.
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Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.
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Artists make worlds for people to walk through.
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It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.
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How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.
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Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.
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As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
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I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
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Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.
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