Symbols of Australia

• Introduction
  • Behind the label
  • Beneath the lino
  • Notes on the text
  • Mimmo's Dinkum Memory-Jogger
  • Visual Puns and...
  • Symbols Revisited
  • Symbols of Assimilation
• Contents
• Authors
  • Mimmo Cozzolino
  • Fysh Rutherford
• Ordering

Mimmo Cozzolino

A native of Italy, Cozzolino has for many years resided and worked in Melbourne. He originally trained as a graphic designer and except for a short stint at the start of his career working for others, has always run his own studios. His interest and love of Australian iconography started soon after he arrived in Australia and eventually led to Symbols of Australia.

He now devotes most of his time to his art practice. He is simultaneously attracted and repulsed by the contemporary trends of abundance and blatant consumerism: one of his main interests in recent times has been discarded objects (urban rubbish), and their artistic possibilities. He finds, scans, photographs or installs them.

In the first half of 2008 he was visiting professor in the College of Fine Arts at Sungshin Womens University, Seoul, Korea, where he taught drawing and painting.

His photographs are held in private collections in Australia and USA. In 2003 he was the winner of the Australia-wide Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award.