Skywhales spotted in Australia

Patricia Piccinini's Skywhalepapa is a monumental sculpture in the form of a hot-air balloon. A new companion piece to Skywhale, together they form a skywhale family that will be launched near the Gallery and take flight over Canberra three times. Following the Canberra flights, the sculptures will also float across the skies of Australia as a National Gallery Touring Exhibition throughout 2021 and 2022.
Centred around the two balloons, the Skywhales: Every heart sings project spans music and song to knitting and baking. The story of the skywhale family is told in Patricia Piccinini’s new children’s book Every Heart Sings, while an exhibition in the Tim Fairfax Learning Gallery brings together studio drawings, 3D models and an interview with the artist to look at the development the skywhales. An accompanying online learning resource for primary students look at concepts of love, care and responsibility in relation to ourselves, families, and other living beings. Musician Jess Green (AKA Pheno) has created a song, We are the Skywhales, keen knitters can make their own skywhales from a pattern developed by a local Canberra knitter, and Three Mills Bakery have produced a limited edition skywhales croissant for the three Canberra flight events.
Canberra flight dates are 7 Feb, 8 Mar and 3 Apr 2021.
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Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2019, purchased 2020
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THE SOUND TRACK USED:
We are the Skywhales features pop synths, wild electric guitars and raw, earthy saxophones, and delicate moments from the Luminescence Children’s Choir brings a beautiful innocence to the song. Produced with long time Pheno collaborator Alyx Dennison, the song exudes their shared love for outside edges of Art Pop, with echoes of Talking Heads, Tune Yards, St Vincent and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Well you failed to get them in the sky in Ballarat 9/7/22-10/7/22 what a flop they look silly