Patricia Piccinini was born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and arrived in Australia in 1972. She studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts and went on to create sculpture that appears bio-morphic, referencing issues such as bio-engineering, bioethics, cloning, consumer culture and its affect on the human form. Her bio-morphic sculptures are imaginary creatures; borne from the world of bio-engineering.

Sleep, by Patricia Picinini

Piccinini states: 'I am interested in the way that contemporary biotechnology and even philosophy erode the traditional boundaries between the artificial and the natural, as well as between species and even the basic distinctions between animal and human.'
(source: Patricia Piccinini: Related Individuals
Sarah Hetherington, review, Artlink Vol. 29, no.1, 2009)

Piccinini represented Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale, with her work 'We are Family'. This project transformed the Australian Pavilion into a home of the future, filling it with clones and mutants; grotesque but recognisable. We are Family was critically acclaimed and ARTnews America singled her out as ‘an artist to watch.’ (source: http://www.tolarnogalleries.com/patricia-piccinini/)
Piccinini also employs technicians to execute her designs.

Patricia Piccinini has held solo exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Centro de Artes Visuales, Lima, the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney,the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne and the Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain. This exhibition
showcased a decade of her work from 1997 – 2007. She has also participated in the Berlin, Gwang’ju, Liverpool and Sydney Biennales and has exhibited widely overseas and in Australia.

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/

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