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

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

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

- Patricia Piccinini

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

- 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…

- Patricia Piccinini

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

- 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…

- Patricia Piccinini

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

- Patricia Piccinini