About The Artist
Suesy Circosta
Suesy Circosta has been an artist, and arts educator, for over 30 years.
Suesy Circosta has been an artist, and arts educator, for over 30 years.
During that time she has orchestrated many highly successful collaborative art projects, involving diverse, and often, highly disadvantaged people.
Suesy started her career in 1972, instigating many of the first on-site art projects in Victoria. Partnering with students, fellow artists, scientists, engineers, architects, landscape designers, and educational institutions, municipal councils, community groups and volunteers she helped produce playgrounds, temporary and permanent installations and assemblages, wall murals; and festivals, and celebrations.
From 1980 onwards she specialized in Community Arts working with:
non English speaking refugees and residents, youth at risk, drug addicts, alcoholics, individuals with cancer and M.S. the unemployed, those with intellectual, physical, emotional and mental disabilities, women 50+, and elderly citizens, emerging artists, art therapy, arts, teacher, C.C.D.U., and O.T. trainees, primary, secondary, V.C.A.L. ‘special school’, high IQ, T.A.F.E., and University students.
From 1990 Suesy specialized in permanent, on- site artworks, and temporary installations, for public, community and private settings, in inner city and regional areas of Australia.
Suesy’s commitment to the meditative practices, and research into sacred symbols, and mystical teachings, also saw her work intimately with spiritual communities. She created sacred artworks for Ashrams, Churches, and Centres of Well Being. She is recognized for her sacred Mandalas in Victoria and in the U.S.A.
Sensitive to on-site spaces and community needs, she transformed many hostile, and neutral spaces, into intimate communal settings and places of belonging.
Since 2009 Suesy has been working on a series of contemporary assemblages using sacred symbols and paraphanalia, with nostalgic and sentimental memorabilia. She is particularly interested in the plight of children, issues of the GNome project, and genetic tampering. At present she has a studio in St.Kilda , Melbourne, and is working towards a future exhibition.
During that time she has orchestrated many highly successful collaborative art projects, involving diverse, and often, highly disadvantaged people.
Suesy started her career in 1972, instigating many of the first on-site art projects in Victoria. Partnering with students, fellow artists, scientists, engineers, architects, landscape designers, and educational institutions, municipal councils, community groups and volunteers she helped produce playgrounds, temporary and permanent installations and assemblages, wall murals; and festivals, and celebrations.
From 1980 onwards she specialized in Community Arts working with:
non English speaking refugees and residents, youth at risk, drug addicts, alcoholics, individuals with cancer and M.S. the unemployed, those with intellectual, physical, emotional and mental disabilities, women 50+, and elderly citizens, emerging artists, art therapy, arts, teacher, C.C.D.U., and O.T. trainees, primary, secondary, V.C.A.L. ‘special school’, high IQ, T.A.F.E., and University students.
From 1990 Suesy specialized in permanent, on- site artworks, and temporary installations, for public, community and private settings, in inner city and regional areas of Australia.
Suesy’s commitment to the meditative practices, and research into sacred symbols, and mystical teachings, also saw her work intimately with spiritual communities. She created sacred artworks for Ashrams, Churches, and Centres of Well Being. She is recognized for her sacred Mandalas in Victoria and in the U.S.A.
Sensitive to on-site spaces and community needs, she transformed many hostile, and neutral spaces, into intimate communal settings and places of belonging.
Since 2009 Suesy has been working on a series of contemporary assemblages using sacred symbols and paraphanalia, with nostalgic and sentimental memorabilia. She is particularly interested in the plight of children, issues of the GNome project, and genetic tampering. At present she has a studio in St.Kilda , Melbourne, and is working towards a future exhibition.
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