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 More Quotes by Patricia Piccinini More Quotes From Patricia Piccinini 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 materiality audience concerned 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 dark beautiful mean 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 numbers years art 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 degrees art school Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed. Patricia Piccinini children ideas thinking We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability]. Patricia Piccinini use reason stuff 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 research done use Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production. Patricia Piccinini courses productions photograph 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 next different thinking 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 exhibitions finishing often-is 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 reacting foam packing 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 people ideas Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production. Patricia Piccinini criteria quality ease I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. Patricia Piccinini sculpture drawing ink As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference. Patricia Piccinini our-world differences doubt
