Career
Vozzo works in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, and drawing. He is well represented in numerous private and institutional collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, United States of America and Asia. Vozzo’s artistic focus is on form and narrative.
He also has something to say about the business of art, and bringing the opposites that exist in both his life, and his work, into harmony. critic, John McDonald describes Vozzo as “a carver in a world of welders and installation artists, a humanist in a contemporary art scene dominated by nihilists".
Vince Vozzo is represented in private and Institutional collections in Australia, England, United States of America, and Asia including the Vizard Foundation, Melbourne and the collection of Mildura Regional Gallery. Vozzo has been a recipient of numerous coveted awards and residencies including the 1999 Hill-End ist in Residence.
In 2008 a survey exhibition "Vince Vozzo: Mule Head Testa Dura" was mounted at the Casula Power House. Born to Italian parents in 1954, Vozzo is a second generation Italian-Australian and grew up in the sprawling western suburbs of Sydney.
Vozzo’s path to artistic prominence began early in childhood, but it wasn"t always easy.
As a child, Vozzo suffered dyslexia and he withdrew from formal learning. He plunged himself into a world of comic strip animation, and these images gave him the impetus to draw. In his teens, he was simultaneously doing work for disadvantaged kids, & gaining considerable recognition and fame for his Bondi sand sculptures.
By now, he’d already successfully completed a hairdressing apprenticeship.
He also considered work as a social worker but an artistic streak desperate for expression could not be ignored and he instead enrolled to study Visual s at the East Sydney Technical College where he had his epiphany and realized he had found his medium with a block of stone. “I developed an interest in the use of form very early on.
I suppose I am continuing a long tradition in sculpture of the human form that began in Ancient Greece and reached a pinnacle during the Italian Renaissance.”.
