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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.

Patricia Piccinini

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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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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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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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Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.
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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 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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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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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 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 would say my work is anti-ironic.
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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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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 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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I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.
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I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.
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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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Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.
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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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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 pretty much keep everything we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
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