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Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist. She was born in 1965 in Freetown , Sierra Leone and emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family. She studied Economic History before enrolling at art school in Melbourne . Her Mixed Media works include the series ''Truck Babies'', and the installation ''We are Family'' which was chosen to represent Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale . Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including Painting , Sculpture , Video , Sound , Installation and Digital Print s. Her major artworks often reflect her interests in world issues such as Bioethics , Biotechnologies and the environment. Her work has gained extensive international recognition.

Piccinini likes to explore what she calls the 'often specious distinctions between the artificial and the natural'. She challenges our classification of life by displaying the relationship and differences between the organic, natural and our constructed material world. This inspires her to combine human physiology and technological development.


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