Patricia Piccinini

I am superficial. At least when it comes to things I see and smell. When I first saw Patricia Piccinini’s sculptures, I was grossed out. But on the second look they managed to make me feel in the same time sorry for them and feel comforted by their calm facial expressions. I guess that’s what pretty much everyone’s reaction is to her work.

Patricia Piccinini (born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Patricia studied BA Economic History in the Australian National University and BA Painting in the Victorian College of Arts. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. Until 2010 she has hundreds of solo and group exhibitions behind her.