Tugomil Čopčić - Tugi

Australian, born in Osijek, Croatia
MFA, PGDip Fine Arts and Cinema (Melbourne), BFA and Ed.
Art Lecturer, Illustrator and Painter.
9 Independent and more then 50 group exhibitions.

Experimentalist, explorer, and inventor of intermedial solutions of visual art expression. His artworks are sketches and studies at the same time. A gesture of sketch – an expression of study. The collages are watercolours and drawings; all in one. An outright provocation - for senses and for anchored visual prejudices. A spirit of rough sketch and breath of life. Unreal as a man’s dream and as real as a genuine woman. Always opposed. For that magnetism of, with fate divided poles Tugi has peculiar and very complex sensitivity. Senses? That is his nature. That tension in which a spark joins refined sensitivity and sarcastic interpolation (anima and animus, soul and beast!), comic strip and fine art, imaginative topics and emphasised materiality, a tension that always surprises – that’s Tugi. (Mesinger B.)

Inserting gentle half-transparent layers and partly readable traces, he lights up the spaces of the new structural search. It looks as if he is sketching the magical fluid of silence, gathering the relief texture of flow... (Rem G.)