Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini (dem born am 1965 insyd Freetown, Sierra Leone) be an Australian artist wey dey work insyd a variety of media, wey dey include painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, den sculpture. Ein works dey focus for "unexpected consequences" top, wey dey convey concerns wey dey surround bio-ethics den dey help visualize future dystopias. Insyd 2003, na Piccinini represent Australia at de 50th Venice Biennale plus a hyperrealist sculpture of ein distinctive anthropomorphic animals. Insyd 2016 The Art Newspaper name Piccinini plus ein "grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies in silicone" de most popular contemporary artist insyd de world after a show insyd Rio de Janeiro attract over 444,000 visitors. Na Natasha Bieniek ein portrait of Piccinini be a finalist for de 2022 Archibald Prize.

 Early life 
Na dem born Piccinini insyd Sierra Leone insyd 1965 to Teodoro den Agnes Piccinini.SMH ‘A wonderful thing’: what inspired Patricia Piccinini’s biggest creation yet Retrieved 17 May 2024.

She move go Canberra, Australia wen na she be 7 years old.  She attend Red Hill Primary, Telopea Park High School den Narrabundah College (a secondary college).

 Academia 
After high school, Piccinini begin dey study economics at Australian National University. Later she plete a Bachelor of Fine Arts insyd Painting at de Victorian College of the Arts insyd 1991."Biography: Patricia Piccinini". National Gallery of Victoria. 2002. Archived from the original on 3 April 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2008. Insyd 2016 na dem award am an honorary Doctorate of Visual and Performing Arts by de University of Melbourne ein Victorian College of the Arts wey na dem appoint am dema Enterprise Professor.

Insyd 2014 she receive de Artist Award from de Melbourne Art Foundation's Awards for de Visual Arts.

 References 

 Read further 

 Gether, Christian (ed.) ... et al. A world of love: Patricia Piccinini. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, 2019. Content – Foreword / Christian Gether. Embrace the Unknown: Patricia Piccinini and the Aesthetics of Care / Dea Antonsen. Your Place Is My Place / Rosi Braidotti in conversation plus Patricia Piccinini. CRISPR den Emergent Forms of Life / Eben Kirksey. 
 Mcdonald, Helen. Patricia Piccinini: nearly beloved. Piper Press, 2012. 

 Queensland Art Gallery. Patricia Piccinini: curious affection. 2019. Content – Arts Minister's message / Leeanne Enoch. Foreword / Chris Saines. Patricia Piccinini : curious affection / Peter McKay. Affirmation and a passion for difference : looking at Piccinini looking at us / Rosi Braidotti. Lines in the sand : a science writer comes to terms with Patricia Piccinini / Elizabeth Finkel. Familiar / China Miéville. 
 Mondloch, Kate. A capsule aesthetic: feminist materialisms in new media art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
 External links 

Mondloch, Kate. A capsule aesthetic: feminist materialisms in new media art. Minnesota, 2018. 
Green, Charles. "Patricia Piccinini: Tolarno Galleries." Artforum International, vol. 55, no. 9, May 2017, p. 356.
Official website
Feature profile of Patricia Piccinini in Sculpture magazine

Category:21st-century Australian sculptors
Category:1965 births
Category:Human
Category:People wey komot Freetown
Category:Sierra Leonean artists
Category:Victorian College of the Arts alumni
Category:Australian contemporary artists
Category:Australian people of Italian descent
Category:Hyperrealist artists
Category:Australian National University alumni
Category:20th-century Australian sculptors
Category:20th-century Australian women artists
Category:21st-century Australian women artists
Category:Artists wey komot de Australian Capital Territory
Category:People educated at Narrabundah College
Category:Australian people of Sierra Leonean descent
Category:Sierra Leonean people