About the Artist

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, educational institutions, municipal councils, community groups and volunteers she helped produce playgrounds, temporary and permanent structures, wall murals; and festivals, and arts 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 multi media projects, 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, ad mystic 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.

She is acknowledged for her compassion, patience, and broad knowledge of the arts. Hundreds of individuals have been empowered in her company to create on-site artworks throughout Melbourne.