I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to fe… - Patricia Piccinini
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to fe…
- Patricia Piccinini
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference. - Patricia Piccinini
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it. - Patricia Piccinini
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations. - Patricia Piccinini
I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. - Patricia Piccinini
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, t… - Patricia Piccinini
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, t…
Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production. - Patricia Piccinini
Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.
I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first. - Patricia Piccinini
I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.
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… - Patricia Piccinini
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…
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