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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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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 60
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in storage. We repaired it and sent it back with better packing.
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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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In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.
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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.
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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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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 pretty much keep everything we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
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