15 Facts About Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini's works focus on "unexpected consequences", conveying concerns surrounding bio-ethics and help visualize future dystopias.

In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale with a hyperrealist sculpture of her distinctive anthropomorphic animals.

Natasha Bieniek's portrait of Patricia Piccinini was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.

Patricia Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone in 1965 to Teodoro and Agnes Patricia Piccinini.

Patricia Piccinini moved to Canberra, Australia when she was 7 years old.

Patricia Piccinini attended Red Hill Primary, Telopea Park High School and Narrabundah College.

Patricia Piccinini has an ambivalent attitude towards technology and she uses her artistic practice as a forum for discussion about how technology impacts upon life.

Patricia Piccinini is keenly interested in how contemporary ideas of nature, the natural and the artificial are changing our society.

In 2003, Patricia Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Patricia Piccinini has stated that she created Skywhalepapa because she "thought it might be wonderful to present an image of a masculine carer; a Skywhalepapa along with his offspring" and that she "wanted to celebrate the evolution of fatherhood".

Patricia Piccinini uses her art as a forum for viewers to project their own beliefs on and start discussions.

Green reasoned that by creating an intriguing narrative Patricia Piccinini was able to make hyperrealism appealing to the general audience.

Patricia Piccinini's works have been closely associated with and interpreted as post-human due to their subjects.

Patricia Piccinini's work affirms that posthuman ideology and femininity is liberation from modern practices such as genetic engineering and animal farms.

For example, Patricia Piccinini engaged in the theme of surrogate motherhood, and inter-species relationships to convey environmental turmoil.