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Skywhales Across Australia
'Skywhales Across Australia is a project that talks about nature, family, evolution, care and wonder. The skywhales float into our lives to make us smile and think.' - Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini's Skywhalepapa is a monumental sculpture in the form of a hot-air balloon. Together with its companion piece Skywhale they form a skywhale family.
Following their debut over Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra 2021, the floating pair will take to skies across Australia as a National Gallery touring event in 2024 and 2025.
Piccinini believes Skywhales Across Australia is not only two spectacular sculptures but a performance piece:
“I imagine visitors assembling to watch Skywhalepapa coming to life, with a single skywhale figure we have a character, but with the two we have a relationship, and a narrative.” says Piccinini.
As the skywhales float across the dawn skies, Piccinini calls on communities to engage with them creatively. Make a morning of it, prepare a picnic, watch in awe, and sing along in wonder as the skywhale family takes flight.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
4:30am - Site opens
4:45am - Event commences
5:35am - First light
5:57 am- Sunrise
6:15am - 6:30am* Event ends
*End time may vary due to weather conditions.
Related Events:
Artist Talk with Patricia Piccinini
Sat 27 September: 1pm - 2pm | Riverway Library
For over 25 years Patricia Piccinini has interrogated the complex relationship between our natural and artificial worlds, beginning each creative project with a speculative question, a wondrous ‘What if…?’
Known internationally for her astonishing hyperrealism, Piccinini’s practice comprises drawing, photography, video, mixed-media painted compositions, large-scale installation, and includes the now iconic hot-air balloon Skywhales sculptures.
With the launch of Skywhales Across Australia scheduled for Sunday 28 September, this is the perfect opportunity to acquaint yourself with Patricia Piccinini, one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists.
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Children's Book Reading with Patricia Piccinini
Sun 28 September: 10am - 11am | Riverway Library
Every Heart Sings by Patricia Piccinini follows the journey of the skywhale family. It is a story about nature, family, evolution, care and wonder. Published by the National Gallery, it is Patricia Piccinini's first children's book.
Following the Skywhales Across Australia launch on 28 September, young readers are invited to the Riverway Library for a reading of Every Heart Sings, by artist Patricia Piccinini.
The Every Heart Sings publication has been supported by the National Gallery of Australia Foundation Board Publishing Fund.
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Image credits:
Poster image: Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Patricia Piccinini.
Banner image: Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020 and Skywhale, 2013, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Hamilton launch © Patricia Piccinini. Photo by We Met in June
Skywhales Across Australia is a National Gallery Touring Event, supported by the Australian Government through Visions of Australia and the National Collecting Institutions Touring Outreach Program.
Skywhales is the third instalment of The Balnaves Contemporary Series and is a Know My Name project.
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IMPORTANT: Due to potential impacts from weather conditions, register below so we can contact you with updates on the event.