What do YOU imagine art

to be?

Does it look like this?

OR, like this…

Didn’t think so!

Welcome to the artworks and life of Patricia Piccinini…

Piccini arrived in Australia in 1972 with her family

where she initially studied economic history

(borrrring) before enrolling at an art school in

Melbourne…

What do you think her artworks reflect?

http://patriciapiccinini.net/natureslittlehelpers/shows/01The_Bodyguard/hires/10Bodyguard_(for_the_Golden_Helmeted_Honeyeater).jpg

Insanity?

WRONG

Her artworks reflect her interests in world issues

such as bioethics, biotechnologies, the

environment, cloning, stem cell research and gene

therapy.

Her art engages our contemporary world in all its social and political

complexity and contradiction—the destruction and preservation of the

natural world, the promises and failures of cutting edge technology, its related topic of ethical responsibility,

the allure of consumer culture, and the influence of popular culture.

As such exploring the interaction of science, technology and the

environment.

WHAT FORSTERS PICCININI’S MOTIVATION TO CREATE SUCH

‘DIFFERENT’ ARTWORKS?

By exploring concepts of what is ‘natural’ in the digital age, Piccinini brings a deeply personal perspective to her work by pursuing an interest in the human forms and its potential for manipulation and enhancement

through bio-technical intervention, a very real subject that Piccinini is quite actively passionate in; depicted

through her art.

Piccinini’s works focusing on genetic manipulation…

WHAT DOES PICCININI USE TO CREATE HER ARTWORKS??

Piccinini doesn’t specialise in one specific media when creating her artworks; as such she uses a variety of

different media forms such as sculpture, video,

drawing, installation and digital prints.

So if I asked you now to create something that reflects a mix of both science, nature and

technology what could you create for me?

REFERENCES• http://www.busaccagallery.com/userfiles/81271Grass FieldOpeningAndLargeOakTrees.jpg

• http://horman.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/yf_lrg_01.jpg

• http://sicmagazine.org/Arius/Big%20Mother2005.JPG

• http://img356.imageshack.us/i/hellopossums1yc.jpg/

• Multiple Intelligences 2009, Patricia Piccini; URL: http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article4124-patricia-piccinini.aspx, visited 29/1/10

• Multiple Intelligences, Educator’s Guide with Self-Guided Materials For School Groups, focus Patricia Piccini. URL: http://fryemuseum.org/images/docs/Piccinini2.pdf visited: 29/1/10

• Tolarno Galleries 2010, Patricia Piccini – Profile/ CV. URL: http://www.tolarnogalleries.com/patricia-piccinini/. Visited 30/1/10