Colin Suggett

Many Gippslanders will be familiar with Suggetts Stunned Mullet which adorns the corner of Fish Creek Hotel, however few will be aware that Colin Suggett is Australias leading artist creating moving sculpture. Dancing hawaiian sausages, whitegoods that blow hot air levitating video monitor with clap sticks and tycoons breathing their last gasp, all with a direct comment on contemporary social and political reality.

Born in Warrnambool in 1945, Suggett?s work is derived directly from his childhood obsession of making things that move ? cartoons, films, animations, motorised devices, puppets and billy carts.

Using the gamut of new materials and technology, the former film and media lecturer has created a theatrical and often humorous body of work based on his responses to prevailing social and political events. Audiences will be treated to a range of mechanically ingenious works that comment on the ?trial and error? nature of socio/political change in the latter quarter of the 20th century.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad, Sep 13, 17:34:50