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Piccinini’s Flinders Street installation extended to January 2022

ArtsHub speaks with Piccinini on the feeling of loss with closures and the importance of public engagement as her RISING installation is extended.

29 Jul 2021 11:06

Gina Fairley

Visual Arts

Installation view, Patricia Piccinini’s The Supporter, in A Miracle Constantly Repeated, for Rising. Photo Eugene Hyland.

The snap cancellation of RISING has been one of the great disappointments this year. Originally slated to take place in August 2020, the festival was launched 26 May, only to be shutdown due to a new COVID outbreak in Melbourne.

Piccinini told ArtsHub: ‘I don’t make works for their own sake. They are part of a conversation with an audience, and without that audience they are just me talking to myself, which seems a bit pointless.’

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina