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I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

Patricia Piccinini

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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Physically
Limited
Ideas
Firsts
Come
First

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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 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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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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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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I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.
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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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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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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 am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.
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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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