“A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.” ChildrenArtImportantDoneDreamSouthAustraliaMumGalleryWorkshopsArt GalleriesSouth Australia Author:Patricia Piccinini
“As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.” WorldDifferencesDoubtOur WorldSuspicious Author:Patricia Piccinini
“Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.” PeopleThinkingTryingChildrenIdeasSocialProcessPhilosopherAnthropologists Author:Patricia Piccinini
“In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do with global warming, and this is why they were making work about these issues'.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksIssuesEnvironmentHundredWorriedThings To DoGlobal Warming Author:Patricia Piccinini
“The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.” WayLooksSocialClassCenturyRevolutionAppreciateRealismWorking ClassEmergingNineteenth CenturyIndustrial Revolution Author:Patricia Piccinini
“I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.” ThinkingHeartDarkDepthQuestioningTurmoil Author:Patricia Piccinini
“Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.” PeopleThinkingMeanBeautifulCertainDarkDarknessTenElementsUncertaintyBreastsAmbiguousGrotesqueMutationShe Is Beautiful Author:Patricia Piccinini
“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.” MadeSaidWantedUsedDarkPersonalityElementsToolsDirectResponseIslandsUnconsciousMassiveInvitedEvaluateRorschach Author:Ben Quilty
“I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.” BookWholeFronts Author:Ben Quilty
“There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.” HumansStoriesBigsDarkInterestingMissingPaintingLandscapeDramaticInteresting ThingsGloomyMassacresOminousTasmania Author:Ben Quilty