CONTEMPLATING ART: Patricia Piccinini

We are thrilled to partner with Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove to present a new and beautiful series of lunchtime events and conversations.

We welcome Patricia Piccinini to our first conversation with MPRG Director, Danny Lacy.

Danny was the Guest Judge of the Montalto Sculpture Prize 2021, and along with Montalto's Creative Director, Neil Williams, will take you on a guided walk of the Montalto Sculpture Trail from 10.30 am. This is as an optional extra you choose to 'tick' at the time of booking. The lunchtime conversation will begin at 12pm.

Patricia Piccinini is a Melbourne based artist who explores the frontiers of science and technology through her sculptures, photographs, video and installation. Since the early 1990s, she has pursued an interest in the human form and its potential for manipulation and enhancement through bio-technological intervention. She is a crusader, getting joy from those things we know to be imperfect, for the values of compromise and community.

Patricia is best known for her mutant life-like creatures rendered in silicone and hair. From the start of her career her work has combined the cute and the grotesque, pitting our impulse to nurture against revulsion, but to encourage us to see the beauty of all created forms, however monstrous, deformed or artificial.

Image : Patricia Piccinini with detail of her work.

 

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Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove, 33 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South, 3937, View Map