PATRIZIA BIONDI.
Patrizia Biondi is a Sydney-based, multi-disciplinary visual artist who works predominantly with found materials. Her creative processes involve the labour-intensive transmutation of obsolescent resources such as salvaged cardboard, by cleaning, treating, painting, cutting, sanding, hammering, smoothing, assembling and constructing the salvaged parts.
By recovering resources that were discarded as useless and transforming them into beautiful art objects that are collectible, therefore they are given significance, Patrizia questions how we assign value. The motivation for this enquiry is Patrizia’s concern with humanity’s increasing fascination with affluence and consumerism, weighed against the un-sustainability of waste, the cementing of individualism, the dissolution of community and the current global crisis of empathy.
Patrizia grew up in Italy during the seminal 1970s -years of fear, uncertainty, upheaval and monumental socio-political changes brought about by unrest and terrorism. This upbringing engendered a formative awareness of societal issues, a cognisance which, later, became the core of her artistic practise. Patrizia holds a Bachelor Degree of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney.