AUSTRALIAN ART –

Catalogue of an exhibition held 1 May – 22 August 2010 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

• 64 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. #060525

• • Piccinini, Patricia — Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern — 21st century — Exhibitions
  • Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on “unexpected consequences”,^[1] 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. In 2016 The Art Newspaper named Piccinini with her “grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies in silicone” the most popular contemporary artist in the world after a show in Rio de Janeiro attracted over 444,000 visitors.^[2] Natasha Bieniek’s portrait of Piccinini was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.^[3]