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Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini (born 1965) is a contemporary artist from Australia. Piccinini is famous for her hyperrealist sculptures. Her sculptures consist of futuristic props and anthropomorphic animals, all of which usually feature some sort of distortment.

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Patricia Piccinini attended Telopea Park High School. At Telopea, Piccinini took a compulsory art class and this sparked her interest in art as a life long career. Piccinini then attended Narrabundah College and received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts at The Victorian College of the Arts in 1991.

Work

Most of Piccinini's work consists of paintings and sculptures. These sculptures and paintings revolve around futuristic ideas and anthropomorphic animals.

Futuristic Pieces

Truck Pieces (1999), Big Sister (1999), Tangerine Dream (2001), Heart Breaker (2002), Game Boys Advanced (2002), Sun Shifter (2004), Deathmatch (2004), Radial (2005)

Anthropomorphic Pieces

The Young Family (2002), Still Life With Stem Cells (2002), Undivided (2004), Bodyguard (2004), The Embrace (2005), Surrogate (2005), Big Mother (2005)

Skywhale (2013)

The Skywhale was a more notable piece created by Piccinini. The Skywhale is a massive hot air balloon that resembles somewhat of a tortoise with udders.

Graham (2016)

Graham is a sculpture of a man with very distorted features. Graham is special because Graham is designed to have the perfect body to withstand the force of a car crash. This was done in collaboration with the Transport Accident Commission to spread awareness about the dangers of driving.

References

Wolfe, Cary. “Human, All Too Human: ‘Animal Studies’ and the Humanities.” PMLA, vol. 124, no. 2, 2009, pp. 564–575. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25614299. Accessed 29 Apr. 2021.

Orning, Sara E. S. “Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling.” Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human, edited by Michael Lundblad, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, pp. 80–103. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt2mn.9. Accessed 29 Apr. 2021.

“Unbecoming Human: Patricia Piccinini’s Bioart and Postanthropocentric Posthumanism.” A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art, by Kate Mondloch, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis; London, 2018, pp. 65–86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1zgb3fb.6. Accessed 29 Apr. 2021.

Baykan, Burcu. “Body without Organs as Pure Potentiality in Patricia Piccinini’s Sculptural Installations.” Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, edited by Radek Przedpełski and S. E. Wilmer, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2020, pp. 154–168. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1c29rcx.14. Accessed 29 Apr. 2021.

Bartlett, Alison. “Encountering Public Art: Monumental Breasts and the Skywhale.” Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building Bridges between Research, Policy and Practice, edited by Sally Dowling et al., 1st ed., Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL, USA, 2018, pp. 205–218. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4rftfc.20. Accessed 29 Apr. 2021.

Louisapenfoldblog. (2021, January 03). Patricia Piccinini: Art in CHILDHOOD SERIES. Retrieved May 07, 2021, from http://www.louisapenfold.com/art-in-childhood-series-patricia-piccinini/