Patricia Piccinini Paste-ups: 52 ACTIONS

23 Nov 2024 - 15 Feb 2025

Poster with words Is there room in your heart?

As part of the 52 ACTIONS exhibition at Redcliffe Art Gallery, you can discover a series of paste-up posters by acclaimed artist Patricia Piccinini.

These posters will be displayed at various venues in City of Moreton Bay, including Redcliffe Museum, Redcliffe Library, and North Lakes Library.

Each of Piccinini’s posters pairs an image with a thought-provoking question about humanity, technology, and relationships. As Piccinini says, “these posters stand out among the visual clutter, making us think rather than trying to sell us something.”

Piccinini created these posters during the 2020-21 lockdowns when she noticed empty spaces where concert posters used to be in. She saw these spaces as an opportunity to ask important questions and engage with her community.

One of the posters depicts a hybrid creature, part bat and part human, with the question, “Is there room in our hearts?” This artwork, made during COVID-19, asks if we can reconnect with others without fear and appreciate the value of different beings, even something as odd as a bat. It reminds us that although we are all different, we share the same world and must learn to live together.

Image credit: Image credit: Patricia Piccinini, Is there room in our hearts?, 2022, series of four paired posters, 119 x 84cm each. Courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.

Redcliffe Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

About the artist

Patricia Piccinini lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and is one of the artists featured in 52 ACTIONS. Her work includes sculpture, photography, video, and drawing, exploring the line between the artificial and the natural in today’s world. She is best known for her incredibly realistic animal/human hybrid sculptures, which encourage us to rethink our relationships with the world around us.

Significant solo exhibitions include We Are Family in the Australian Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Her solo museum survey exhibition: ComCiência at CCBB, toured to São Paulo, Brasília, Rio De Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte in Brazil and was named the most popular contemporary art exhibition in 2016 by The Art Newspaper. Other solo exhibitions include Curious Affection at QAGOMA in Brisbane, Once Upon a Time at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and Relativity at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Patricia has installed several major exhibitions in non-traditional spaces including Curious Imaginings at the Patricia Hotel in Vancouver and A Miracle Constantly Repeated in the Flinders Street Station Ballroom in Melbourne in 2021.

Don’t miss this chance to see Piccinini’s work and reflect on some of the most important issues of our time!

52 ACTIONS was developed and curated by Artspace, Sydney. The exhibition is touring nationally with Artspace, Sydney, with support from Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project is proudly funded by the NSW Government through Create NSW. It has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Visions of Australia program and through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body. It is also supported by the City of Sydney and by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.