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LES KOSSATZ   Australia   1943 -2011

Melbourne dwellers of a certain age will have Les Kossatz's monumental, playful sculpture of tumbling sheep, Hard Slide, in the foyer of the NGV imprinted in their memory, or they will remember Kossatz “art trams" with sheep crowded into the windows. Kossatz’s early works of the 1960s drew on his ability to work across a diversity of media, including painting, glass. drawing and printmaking. He started at the print workshop at George Baldessin’s studio in St Andrews, then during the 1970’s worked in a studio in Collins St in Melbourne with fellow artists Baldessin, Tate Adams, Andrew Sibley, Roger Kemp and Fred Williams. Kossatz addressed certain archetypal themes that affect human existence. He had a life-long fascination with the natural world and desire to understand both its human and animal inhabitants; exploration of the systems of knowledge and codes of behavior that structure individual and communal life; and his critical and playful reflections on contemporary behaviour and the mysteries of existence.

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