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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.

Patricia Piccinini

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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.
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Artists make worlds for people to walk through.
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I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.
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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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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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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 am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.
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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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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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In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do with global warming, and this is why they were making work about these issues'.
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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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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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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 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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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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I would say my work is anti-ironic.
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