Montalto is thrilled to partner with the team at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery to present a new and beautiful series of lunchtime events that deeply explore artists, and their art, in a relaxed environment overlooking the Montalto Sculpture Trail.

Each event will showcase a renowned artist in conversation as they discuss the artist’s background, inspiration, techniques and work (both completed and upcoming) over a long lunch in The Restaurant at Montalto.

On Thursday 12th May, Montalto welcomes Patricia Piccinini with Danny Lacy, Gallery Director of MPRG.

Danny was the Guest Judge of the Montalto Sculpture Prize 2021, and along with Creative Director Neil Williams will take guests on a guided walk of the Montalto Sculpture Trail from 10.30 am. This is as an optional extra.

Patricia Piccinini is a Melbourne based artist who explores the frontiers of science and technology through her sculptures, photographs, video and installation. Since the early 1990s, she has pursued an interest in the human form and its potential for manipulation and enhancement through bio-technological intervention. She is a crusader, getting joy from those things we know to be imperfect, for the values of compromise and community.

Patricia is best known for her mutant life-like creatures rendered in silicone and hair. From the start of her career her work has combined the cute and the grotesque, pitting our impulse to nurture against revulsion, but to encourage us to see the beauty of all created forms, however monstrous, deformed or artificial.

In 2003 Patricia represented Australia in the 50th Venice Biennale where an unprecedented 114 articles and reviews led to her international appreciation as a provocateur who’s thoughtful and inciteful works ticked so many contemporary boxes – from genetics to feminism to climate change.

Patricia is widely known and recognised for many varied works that span her career.

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