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Patricia Piccinini

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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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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 pretty much keep everything we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
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The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?
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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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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 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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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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My practice is focused on bodies and relationships the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.
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I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.
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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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Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.
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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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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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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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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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Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.
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I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.
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I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.
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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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I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.
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