She liked movies

Piccinini’s family immigrated to Australia and she spent years as an ‘outsider’ due to her South African accent and different cultural customs. She was half this and half that.

Mother died early on in her life from cancer, influences her interest in medical technology and concern with the ethical and moral issues especially with stem cell research.

She spent her early career sketching preserved specimens from medical museums.

Was always day dreaming

A. Contemporary artist: videos, computer animation, and sculpture.

B. Perfectionist / slick finish to her artworks

C. Interested in ideas of nature vs unnatural, technological advances & biotechnology

D. Works are confronting, shocking, and take full advantage of new technologies

Piccinini, challenges people to think about the identity of hybrids and their place in our changing world. Her hybrids are half human and half animal.

Piccinini does really weird sculptures

Piccinini likes to create pretty artworks

Piccinini displays the relationship and differences between natural and hybrid life forms

This work deals with the maternal relationship between a mother and her children.

Piccinini is unsure

All are correct

The human features apon the creatures such as the hands and feet make the dog like creatures quite disturbing. Therefore, to make the work more inviting to the audience; we see the creatures in this loving and caring type of interaction and are able to feel tenderness and understanding towards her hybrids.

The cuteness of the young hybrids allows the audience to overlook their uneasiness when looking at the half human half dog mother.

none are correct because Piccinini valued monotones of hybrid species

challenges many traditional conventions and the canons of art

Challenges normal concepts of maternal relationship between a

mother and her children.

Challenges our responsibility & commitment to care for these creatures since we created them.

Piccinini challenges our classification of life by displaying the relationship and differences between natural and unnatural

Piccinini challenges our understanding of different colour schemes

She does not make artworks herself and employs a team of technicians, and fabricators, who work from drawings and 3D models to create the sculpture in a factory.

Unconventional skills: research skills, interviewing techniques,

creating a 3D model on a computer, and a great ability to

communicate her idea to the fabricators who make her work.

Shows her disregard for traditional sculpture materials and methods by using advanced machinery to create hyperrealism, with silicone and polyurethane.

Cultural, Subjective & Postmodern understandings

I was able to link her past as an unwanted immigrant to her quest to nurture these hybrids and understand more about her studio practice.

No I was not able to see the link between her past and the nurturing of her hybrids and still do not understand her studio practice.

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I make these works both attractive and alluring but also grotesque and disconcerting.

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I want to pull you in, to create a sense of empathy for these vulnerable creatures. But I also want to push you away — to make you feel like they’re unattractive and so not human.

That push-and-pull dynamic creates a space for the viewer to think.

She creates works for advertising companies

The audience developed a relationship with the 'Young Family'

The audience created an alternate reality for the 'Young Family'; some placed the family in danger and others were more caring about the young families future.

This online life existed for three years from 2004-2007.

No relationship developed between the audience and the 'Young Family'