Artist's materials and production methods

Piccinini:
Piccinini's "The Young Family" is made using silicon, polyurethane, acrylics, leather and human hair. Piccinini's sculpture would have taken the process of building a rough model before starting the slow and detailed process of applying leather over the polyurethane body. Careful detail has been put into making the folds of skin with silicon as well as the positioning of human hair.

Nolan:
"Near Birdsville" is a painting composed from acrylics. Nolan has painted onto a board rather than using a traditional canvas to paint on. Nolan uses long brush strokes in making the sweeping desert plains. By doing this Nolan makes the image appear to have the element of blowing winds. Nolan's colour also blends into countless tones of brown from foreground to background.