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Patricia Piccinini
Art holds the power to shape the existing, but also to create new worlds. Vision and hand of a skillful master can design entire universe and inhabit them with the most extraordinary life. PatriciaPiccinini is an Australian contemporary artist who creates the world that exists somewhere between the one we all know and the one that is almost upon us. Often with a terrifying appearance, her work is neither imagined as the nightmare future environmental ruin, nor the brave new world of errorless scientific process. Instead, she focuses on the internal, emotional lives of the every new creature that might emerge and begin its life, but also on the questions about the kinds of relationships that might come to light alongside them. These creatures are unsettling and strange, yet not threatening. When the first impression of terror passes, all that remains is their vulnerability, as they plead with us to look beyond their figures and accept them as they are.
The Process
Piccinini’s art process always begins with a drawing, a medium best suited for developin
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Patricia Piccinini’s family moved from Freetown, Sierra Leone to Canberra, Australia in 1972. P. Piccinini currently lives with her husband and creative partner Peter Hennessy (b. 1968) and their two children on Wurundjeri country in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She holds an honorary Doctorate of Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Arts in economic history from the Australian National University, Canberra. P. Piccinini is Enterprise Professor in Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
P. Piccinini works across a range of media, including drawing, video, sculpture and photography. She has been actively producing and exhibiting her work since the 1990s, throughout Australia, North America, Europe and Asia, along with more than one hundred solo exhibitions. One of her best-known works is The Young Family (2003), which was shown in her exhibition We Are Family in the Australian Pavilion for the 50th Venice Biennal
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Patricia Piccinini
Australian artist (born 1965)
Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on "unexpected consequences",[1] conveying concerns surrounding bio-ethics and help visualize future dystopias. In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale with a hyperrealist sculpture of her distinctive anthropomorphic animals. In 2016 The Art Newspaper named Piccinini with her "grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies in silicone" the most popular contemporary artist in the world after a show in Rio de Janeiro attracted over 444,000 visitors.[2] Natasha Bieniek's portrait of Piccinini was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.[3]
Early life
Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone in 1965 to Teodoro and Agnes Piccinini.[4][5]
She moved to Canberra, Australia when she was 7 years old. She attended Red Hill Primary, Telopea Park
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