Patricia Piccinini Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Heart, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, Years, Numbers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Real, People, Joy

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• I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, School, Degrees

  The Condition Report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm sure as more and more artists come to use these sorts of media, the expertise amongst conservators is going to keep pace with that.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Artist, Media, Talking

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Class, Appreciate, Looks

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Done, Research

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

  Patricia Piccinini

  People, Important, Longevity

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio for repair, and I try to make sure that they never do.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Hate, Ideas, People

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Common, Accessibility, Lowest

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Stuff, Reason

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• For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny percentage of black merino followed by carding and felting.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Hair, Black, Tiny

  Source: www.patriciapiccinini.net

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• I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Audience, Concerned, Materiality

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Drawing, Ink, Sculpture

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in storage. We repaired it and sent it back with better packing.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Foam, Reacting, Packing

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Mean, Doe, Lists

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Often Is, Finishing, Exhibitions

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Thinking, Different, Next

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Photograph, Courses, Productions

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Details, Notes, Process

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Track, Databases

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Magazines, Tests, Drawers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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