Where was Patricia Piccinini born?
Where was Patricia Piccinini born?
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Patricia Piccinini/Place of birth
Born 1965, Freetown, Sierra Leone; arrived in Australia 1972; lives and works in Melbourne.
Who does Patricia Piccinini work with?
2016. In 2016, the TAC commissioned Piccinini to work in collaboration with Dr. David Logan, a senior research fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre, and trauma surgeon Dr. Christian Kenfield, for Project Graham— as part of the TAC’s road safety campaign Towards Zero.
Why does Patricia Piccinini make her artworks?
I actively cultivate that. I make these works both attractive and alluring but also grotesque and disconcerting. I want to pull you in, to create a sense of empathy for these vulnerable creatures. But I also want to push you away — to make you feel like they’re unattractive and so not human.
What materials does Patricia Piccinini use?
Expanding the hyperrealist tradition in sculpture, Piccinini uses an array of materials—including silicone, leather, and human hair—to form beings that might result from genetic science. Beasties with soulful brown eyes and long ears, scales, or webbed extremities, appear simultaneously appealing and grotesque.
Where and when was Patricia Piccinini born?
1965 (age 56 years), Freetown, Sierra Leone
Patricia Piccinini/Born
Where did Patricia Piccinini grow up?
Patricia Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Canberra. She received a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 1991.
Where does Patricia Piccinini get her inspiration?
This long-standing interest in relationships is apparent in Piccinini’s early works, which drew their inspiration from scientific—particularly genetic—experiments of the day. In the photographic series Protein Lattice (1997), for example, young models pose alongside mice with what resembles a human ear on their backs.
What does Patricia Piccinini want people to experience from her work?
Certainly I want the viewer to think, but I don’t think they can think without feeling. I am interested in creating an experience that has a number of levels, where wonder and amazement lead to thought and insight.
What are three themes that Piccinini explores in her art making?
At the heart of Piccinini’s practice are themes of fecundity – the potential of life – empathy, connection and wonder. The creatures, or chimeras, Piccinini creates are not conventionally beautiful – far from it – yet have an endearing, ethereal quality about them that evokes a desire to care and nurture.
What does Patricia Piccinini Specialise in?
‘ Known internationally for her hyperrealism, Piccinini’s practice comprises drawing, photography, video, mixed-media painted compositions, large-scale installation, including the hot-air balloon Skywhale.
How old is Patricia Piccinini?
About 56 years (1965)
Patricia Piccinini/Age
What is Patricia Piccinini known for?
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. In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale with a hyperrealist sculpture of her distinctive anthropomorphic animals.
When did Piccinini represent Australia at the Venice Biennale?
In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale. The work exhibited was ‘We Are Family’, an exhibition which displayed humanlike mutant figures behaving like humans. ‘The Long-Awaited’ (2008) was a later work attempting to explore the theme of empathy through a lifelike sculpture of a child cradling a manatee-human hybrid.
What is Piccinini’s attitude towards technology?
Piccinini has an ambivalent attitude towards technology and she uses her artistic practice as a forum for discussion about how technology impacts upon life. She is keenly interested in how contemporary ideas of nature, the natural and the artificial are changing our society.
Where did Victoria Piccinini grow up?
Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone in 1965 to Teodoro and Agnes Piccinini. She moved to Canberra, Australia when she was 7 years old. She attended Red Hill Primary, Telopea Park High School and Narrabundah College (a secondary college).
