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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.
Patricia Piccinini
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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 60
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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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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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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I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.
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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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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 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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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 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 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 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 pretty much keep everything we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
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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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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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