Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini

human

Ein sex anaa gender	female
Country wey e be citizen	Australia
Name wey dem give am	Patricia
Family name	Piccinini
Ein date of birth	1965
Place dem born am	Freetown
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Ein occupation	sculptor, photographer, artist, video artist
Educate for	Victorian College of the Arts, Narrabundah College, Telopea Park School
Work location	Sydney
Movement	contemporary art
Dema official website	http://www.patriciapiccinini.net
Has works in the collection	Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, National Gallery of Victoria, Middelheim Museum
Copyright status as creator	works protected by copyrights

Patricia Piccinini (dem born am 1965 insyd Freetown, Sierra Leone) be an Australian artist hu works insyd a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, den sculpture. Ein works focus on "unexpected consequences", conveying concerns surrounding bio-ethics den help visualize future dystopias. Insyd 2003, Piccinini represent Australia at de 50th Venice Biennale plus a hyperrealist sculpture of ein distinctive anthropomorphic animals. Insyd 2016 The Art Newspaper name Piccinini plus ein "grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies insyd silicone" de most popular contemporary artist insyd de world after a show insyd Rio de Janeiro wey dey attract over 444,000 visitors. Natasha Bieniek's portrait of Piccinini be a finalist for de 2022 Archibald Prize.

Early life

Piccinini be born insyd Sierra Leone insyd 1965 to Teodoro den Agnes Piccinini.

She move to Canberra, Australia wen she be 7 years old. She attend Red Hill Primary, Telopea Park High School den Narrabundah College (a secondary college).

Academia

After high school, Piccinini begin studying economics at Australian National University. Later she complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts insyd Painting at de Victorian College of the Arts insyd 1991. Insyd 2016 dem award am an honorary Doctorate of Visual den Performing Arts by de University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts den appoint their Enterprise Professor.

Insyd 2014 she receive de Artist Award from de Melbourne Art Foundation's Awards for de Visual Arts.

Works

1995 to 1997

Before finding de medium of sculpture, Piccinini experiment plus world-building through photography den digital enhancements. ‘The Mutant Genome Project’ (1995), features commercially available designer babies call LUMP (Lifeform with Unevolved Human Properties). Ein ‘Protein Lattice’ (1997) series features nude models posing plus computer-generated mutant rats. De two series explore de commercial side of science den bring up de question of ethics.

De Protein Lattice series be inspire by de famous Vacanti mouse experiment insyd 1996. De experiment form a human ear on a rat. De research’s objective dey to learn more about cells, den how humans fi possibly regrow body part.

2000 to 2011

According to ein 2002 National Gallery of Victoria biography:

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. Specific works have addressed concerns about biotechnology, such as gene therapy and ongoing research to map the human genome... she is also fascinated by the mechanisms of consumer culture."

Insyd 2002, Piccinini present 'Still Life with Stem Cells', wich features a series of flesh-like masses. As she herself says:

"Stems cells fi base cellular matter before e be differentiate into specific kinds of cells like skin, liver, bone anaa brain. Pure unexpressed potential, they contain de possibility for transformation into anything. They are de basic data format of de organic world. Like digital data, their specificity lies insyd dat, while they are intrinsically nothing, they fi becam anything. They are biomatter for de digital age.

I get interest insyd how dis changes our idea of de body. Already our understanding of de human genome leads us to imagine dat we understand de construction of de body at its most intimate level; de stem cell provides us plus a generic, plastic material from wich we fi construct it. Insyd de last ten years, de body has gone from something dat be uniquely produce to something dat fi be reproduce.

Dis transformation dey already occur, plus very little fuss given its magnitude. De question of whether dis be a good anaa a bad thing be both too simplistic den a little academic. As plus so much of dis biotechnology, de extraordinary has already becam de ordinary. De real question be 'wat are we going to do plus it'. Still life plus Stem Cells be one possible answer."

Insyd 2003, Piccinini represent Australia at de 50th Venice Biennale. De work wey dey exhibit be 'We Are Family', an exhibition wich displays humanlike mutant figures behaving like humans.

'The Long-Awaited' (2008) be a later work attempting to explore de theme of empathy through a lifelike sculpture of a child cradling a manatee-human hybrid.

2012 to 2013

"The Skywhale", commissioned for the centenary of Canberra.

The Skywhale be a work wey commission by de ACT Government for its Centenary year. De ABC describe de work as a "hot air balloon insyd de shape of a tortoise-like animal featuring huge dangling udders made from four hectares of nylon". De budget for de project be $300,000 den has been de subject of comments wey make by ACT Chief Ministers Jon Stanhope den Andrew Barr.

2014 to 2015

"Bootflower" 2015

Insyd a 2014 interview plus de Sydney Morning Herald, Piccinini says of ein work, "It's about evolution, nature – how nature be such a wonderful thing, we're just here to witness it, it's not here for us – genetic engineering, changing de body." Following ein 2014 win insyd de Melbourne Art Foundation's Awards, she go on to say dat:

De thing about dis award on some levels be dat my work ... all of it dey get dis first impact, de sort of impact of spectacle. It's beautifully made, strong, aesthetic, so people dey interest insyd dat den it draws dem insyd, den then they get interest insyd de idea. It takes a while to get to de idea. It's not easy. So dis award says, "We get it, we get wat you're trying to do, we've gone beyond de surface, we fi see dat there are ideas underneath, den these ideas are about de opportunity for connection".

Insyd 2015 she present as part of a group exhibition wey dey title Menagerie at de Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

Graham: a 2016 sculpture for the TAC's public safety campaign 'Towards Zero'.

Insyd 2016, de TAC commission Piccinini to work insyd collaboration plus Dr. David Logan, a senior research fellow at fe Monash University Accident Research Centre, den trauma surgeon Dr. Christian Kenfield, for Project Graham— as part of de TAC's road safety campaign Towards Zero. "Graham", a lifelike, interactive sculpture, highlights how vulnerable de human body be to de forces involved insyd auto accidents. As de TAC explains: "Graham highlights de changes we need to make to protect ourselves from our own mistakes on de road. At de centre of dis system be de belief dat human health be more important dan anything else, he be de embodiment of de Towards Zero vision."

2018

De joint exhibition 'Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester Through Love ...' at TarraWarra Museum of Art include a new site specific work 'Sanctuary': combining a sculpture of a pair of embracing anthropomorphic bonobo figures of silicone, fibreglass den hair; plus a drawing on paper den digital wall print of multiple human limbs forming a horizon.

2019-2020

Insyd 2019, de National Gallery of Australia plus de assistance of de Balnaves Foundation commission Skywhalepapa for de Skywhales: Every Heart Sings project. Dis work be a companion for de female Skywhale, although they are not necessarily mates. Piccinini dey state dat she create Skywhalepapa because she "thought it might be wonderful to present an image of a masculine carer; a Skywhalepapa along plus ein offspring" den dat she "wanted to celebrate de evolution of fatherhood".

2021

As part of de inaugural Rising Festival, Piccinini create de exhibition "A Miracle Constantly Repeated", wich be ein first extensive hometown show insyd almost two decades. De exhibition ran from May 2021 until June 2022, as a result of delays resulting from COVID-19 lockdowns, as well as high demand. Taking place insyd de Flinders Street station ballroom, den consisting of a combination of hyper-real silicone sculptures, dioramas, video, sound den light, de exhibition explores humanity’s relationship to technology den de environment, den conveys Piccinini's empathetic vision of a future built on resilience den care.