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.
Patricia PiccininiOf course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.
Patricia PiccininiThe way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.
Patricia PiccininiFor one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny percentage of black merino followed by carding and felting.
Patricia Piccinini