We lost a true poet with the sudden passing of Hossein Valamanesh. Drawing on the cultural and natural worlds of Iran, where he was born in 1949, and his adoptive home of Australia since 1973, Hossein explored the entwined spheres of love, spirituality, and nature. His practice embraced a wealth of materiality including sculpture, text, photography, installation, architecture, large-scale public art, and moving image with equal alacrity.
Born in Tehran to parents from northern Iran, in what is now Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, Hossein spent part of his early childhood in the eastern city of
