Peter Cole, Song for the Kimberley, 2009. Mixed media, 96 x 87 x 20cm. Courtesy: the artist and Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria.
The Circus of Life invites the viewer to step inside the sacred space of the studio and learn more about the art and creative practice of one of Gippsland’s prominent sculptors, Peter Cole.
Cole’s works are largely autobiographical, depicting his reaction to oppression in its various social, political and personal forms. Using birds, animals and human forms as symbols to express these ideas, Cole also draws on his early influences of art of other cultures during his travels in Mexico, South America, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Northern Australia.
