Les Kossatz

‘…Kossatz never glides over subject matter. Once he has chosen an area of exploration in his art he insists on tackling it from all angles and ringing every possibility of it’
Peter Dougherty’Art Streams’ July 1997
Born Melbourne Australia 1943
Painter, printmaker, sculptor and stained-glass designer.
Appointments
1965-69 Victorian Secondary School Teacher
1968-90 Lecturer RMIT
Numerous Awards including Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Prize ,1980
Commissions include the Eternal flame AWM Canberra and the Korean War memorial, Canberra. Stained Glass Monash Uni Chapel
SOLO and GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2009 Heide Museum of Modern Art Victoria
  Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melbourne
2007/8 Robyn Gibson, Sydney
2006 Stonnington Stables Deakin University
2005 McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
2004 Baillieu Library Melbourne University
2003 University of Tasmania
  Heide Museum of Modern Art
  RMIT Gallery Melbourne
2000 Defiance Gallery Sydney
  NT Art Gallery Darwin
1996 Lyall Burton Gallery Melbourne
Represented
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
State Galleries of Victoria, NSW, WA ,NT, Queensland and Tasmania
Numerous Regional and tertiary collections.
 
● For complete CV please email Gallery with request
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
     
       
  Squatter 1983 aluminium wood and fiberglass Alter Table 1976 sheepskin, Executive Lure
  117 x 76 x 156cm leather and stainless steel Box 1987 mixed 
  SOLD 131 x 120 x 72cm mediia
    NFS 280 x 65 x 75
      SOLD
       
       
       
  Untitled c.1987 alumium and wood Sentinel 1991  
  42 x 100 x 12cm 400 x 200 x 200cm (approx)  
  SOLD SOLD  
       
       

 

 

 

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