Sculpture Australia Brisbane Sculptor
2016 Ph.D. – Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;
2008 M.Phil. – Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH);
1998 Postgraduate Certificate in Pedagogy – Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, BH;
1997 B.A. – University of Sarajevo – Academy of Fine Arts, Bachelor Sculpture, BH;
1988 SSHGD (Graduated as the best Student of the Generation) School of Fine Arts Sarajevo, BH;
Bosnian and Australian sculptor. Born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Graduated from the School of Fine Arts – Sarajevo and was awarded both a Bachelor and Master of Sculpture degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He worked as a teacher of sculpture and drawing at the School of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, and was an assistant to Professor Kenan Solaković at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.
Currently a free-lance artist and research assistant to Professor Hariz Halilovich (Monash University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia).
Addis has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, under supervision of interdisciplinary team: Dr Sebastian di Mauro, Professor Dubravko Lovrenović and Professor Hariz Halilovich. In his doctoral research Addis analysed the art of Stećak (medieval Bosnian sepulchral sculpture) in the context of contemporary artistic and socio-anthropological conditions and also (re)actualised Stećak as his own metaphor and contemporary creative expression.