AnUneasyFeeling

Featuring:Mar Quinn, Shain Erin,

Richard Stipl, Ron Mueck, and Patricia Piccinini

Collaborated by: Whitney Smith

Mark Quinn

sculpture, paintings and drawings

often deal with the relationship we have with our bodies- how the conflict between the ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ has a grip on contemporary mind

marble sculptures of amputees Greek and Roman statuary and their depictions of an idealised whole.

Mark Quinn

Self Portrait

Kate Moss

Shain Erinvariety of media

including painting, digital media and sculpture

challenging conventions and preconceptions about art and art-making

wide range of influences including world art, mythology and popular culture with a goal to create a unique perspective

Shain ErinLeft: “Mabel”

Below: Mabel Pfeiffer syndrome

Shain Erin“Franz, The

Amazing Frog” Anencephaly

Richard Stiplinitially as a painter,

now turned to making sculpture

Always uses himself as a model

Always trying to convey how the world is changing and the infinite perfectibility of the human form

Scale: ¼ of human

Black Sabbath

Breathe, You Fucker

Black Sabbath

Ron MueckHyperrealist

sculptor

Australian

Early career as a model maker and puppeteer on a children’s TV show

Loves to manipulate scale

Ron Mueck

Dead Dad

A Girl

Mother and Child

Patricia Piccinini

Hyperrealist sculptor

Australian

“…the aim of my work was to look at the increasing impact of medical and media technologies on the body… I wanted the work to engage with contemporary technologies on a formal level.”

Undivided

Doubting Thomas

The Embrace, Offspring and Progenitor

Citation

Wikipediahttp://www.vincesear.com/ron-mueck/hit.www.richardstipl.comwww.art-interview.com/Issue_004/interview_Stipl_Richard.htmlhttp://www.patriciapiccinini.net/www.shainerin.comwww.marcquinn.com