Patricia Piccinini

PublicationRetrospectology: The World According to Patricia PiccininiIn the Press...

ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg was the guest curator of Patricia Piccinini’s major exhibition EVOLUTION at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, which...

Patricia Piccinini, Jacqueline Riva, Jane Trengove, Peter Walsh, Kim Westcott Publication Up the Road...

Robert Gligorov, Lucy Gunning, Deborah Kelly, Anastasia Klose, Loretta Lux, David Noonan, Michael Parekowhai, Patricia Piccinini, John Nost Sartorius, Sinibaldo Scorza, William Strutt, Ricky Swallow, Shannon Te Ao, Caroline Tisdall, Peter Wächtler, Amelie von Wulffen, Paul Wood...and historical...

What’s that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane?... no...it’s SKYWHALE!Patricia Piccinini’s flight of fancy, SKYWHALE set sail from the forecourt of ACCA during the week commencing 2nd December.Catching sight of her is a bit like whale...

Monday 2 December, 2013 The hot-air balloon sculpture designed by Patricia Piccinini for the Centenary of Canberra celebrations will make its first appearance in Melbourne on the morning of Monday 2nd December.

Natural Woman: A conversation with Patricia Piccinini How do we use work to explore ideas of motherhood and morality? Tai and Patricia discuss what it means to be a mother and continue a successful art practice. They talk about issues of postnatal depression and anxiety, partners and family life. They also talk about owning and celebrating your fecundity and creating ‘finely crafted love letters’ to your audience with your work.

Wednesday 27th August, 2025: Dr Terry Wu, Chair of The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) announced today that internationally renowned Australian artist Patricia Piccinini and arts advocate Dr Theresia Spencer have joined the ACCA Board...

ACCA's hands-on program combines a curator tour of NEW15, artist talks and practical artist-run workshops with leading Australian artists Patricia Piccinini and Paul Wood. It will provide secondary art teachers with engaging and inspiring...

...www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2P0EVZd5mY Patricia Piccinini's flight of fancy, SKYWHALE set sail from the forecourt of ACCA on the 3rd of December 2013...

...for ACCA's Artistic Director.  In June Juliana Engberg was the guest curator of Patricia Piccinini’s major exhibition Evolution at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This exhibition was included in the 10 Days On the Island Festival and became the best...

...www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3LXpq5aSI Watch our anniversary video featuring interviews with artists Callum Morton, Patricia Piccinini, Yhonnie Scarce and Paul Yore. This video...

The Waiting Girl, Fischli and Weiss’s famous rat and bear; sculpture by Ricky Swallow, new drawings by Patricia Piccinini,  and many more.  Several significant historical paintings including William Strutt’s Eagle Hawk 1860...

Patricia Piccinini, Skywhale at ACCA December 2013. Photo: David Johns...

...played host to the dawn launch of Patricia Piccinini’s spectacular giant balloon work, Skywhale, which made front page of The Age newspaper. The same year ACCA also launched its new website which enabled online ticketing...

Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]

...for the upcoming Venice Biennale in 2007. Engberg also continued to play a key role as cultural commentator, contributing to ABC Radio National’s Deep End program and giving a number of public talks, including a keynote lecture on the work of Patricia Piccinini in Wellington and the City of Melbourne’s forum on Creative Culture.

...through a dialogic exchange across scientific and artistic disciplines and modes. With contributions by: Thomas Apperley, Elisabetta Barberio, Monica Bello, Drew Berry, Justin Clemens, Madeleine Collie, Sean Cubitt, Peter Galison, Adrian Heathcote, Chris Henschke, Tessa Laird, Beverley Meldrum, Karlie Noon, Patricia Piccinini, Alicia Sometimes, Will Steffen, Paul Thomas, Marcus Volz, Lisa Waup, and Liam Young.

Patricia Piccinini, Yhonnie Scarce and Paul Yore. This video was produced by Guilty and Positive Ape to celebrate ACCA’s...

...plays a key role in the philanthropic efforts of both organisations and her own initiatives. Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini is a contemporary artist...