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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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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 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 pretty much keep everything we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
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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 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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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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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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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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I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.
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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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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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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 put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.
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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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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 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 would say my work is anti-ironic.
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It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.
Patricia Piccinini
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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