Hossein Valamanesh art review

Hossein Valamanesh has become established as one of Australia's best-known contemporary artists. Often utilising the most elemental of natural materials - branches, flames, leaves, sand, mud, seeds, earth - Valamanesh seeks out an essential connection to place through the simplest of means. His poetic works explore issues such as cultural identity, history, memory and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Hossein Valamanesh was born in Tehran in 1949. He lived with his Azerbaijani parents in the remote town of Khash in the province of Sistane Baluchestan, a mountainous,…