Quotes by Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini

A child came up to me and asked ‘am I dreaming?’ I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It’s an important formative time.

Art

Children

Dream

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

Artist

People

World

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

Differences

Doubt

Our World

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.

Hate

Ideas

People

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.

Black

Hair

Tiny

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with – and responsibilities towards – that which we create.

Mean

Responsibility

Technology

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

Everyday

Reality

World

I certainly don’t see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It’s just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

Humour

Messages

Way

I don’t connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Accessibility

Common

Lowest

I don’t set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don’t like what I make, and don’t find it cute, but that’s hard for me to understand.

Cute

People

Scare

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Able

Accessibility

Animal

Appreciate

Art

Artist

Audience

Beautiful

Black

Body

Children

Class

Common

Concerned

Courses

Criteria

Cute

Dark

Databases

Decision

Degrees

Details

Differences

Different

Doe

Done

Doubt

Drawers

Drawing

Dream

Ease

Emotion

Everyday

Exhibitions

Fantastic

Father

Finishing

Firsts

Foam

Found Objects

Hair

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Humour

Ideas

Important

Ink

Interesting

Ironic

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Quotes by Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini

A child came up to me and asked ‘am I dreaming?’ I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It’s an important formative time.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

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.

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.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with – and responsibilities towards – that which we create.

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

I certainly don’t see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It’s just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I don’t connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

I don’t set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don’t like what I make, and don’t find it cute, but that’s hard for me to understand.

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