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“I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.”

Patricia Piccinini

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Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

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I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

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