Patricia Piccinini - Nest

Patricia Piccinini

Sierra Leone born 1965,

Italy 1968-72, Australia from 1972

Nest

2006 Melbourne

enamel paint on fibreglass, leather, plastic,

35

metal, rubber, mirror, transparent synthetic polymer resin, glass

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Purchased, Victorian Foundation for

Living Australian Artists 2006

Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia's most acclaimed

contemporary artists. Piccinini received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 1991 and in 1994 she initiated The Basement Project Gallery in Melbourne, which she coordinated until 1996. She is best known for her hybrid, figurative sculptures rendered in silicone and hair. Her interdisciplinary practice - surreal drawings, photographs, hybrid animals and vehicular creatures - examines the way that contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. Pursuing her interest in the human form and its potential for manipulation, Nest presents two mutated motor scooters as if living creatures in the wild.

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