International Refugee Organisation Certificate of Identity for the purpose of immigration to Australia.

Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Golub, Poland on the 28 December, 1922. Josef was known as Stan or Ostoja. He migrated to Melbourne in 1949 and settled in Stirling, South Australia in 1955. Ostoja-Kotkowski studied art under Olgierd Vetesko in Poland from 1940-1945; at the Dusseldorf Kunst Akademie in Germany from 1946-1949 and at the National Gallery School in Melbourne under A. Sumner and Sir William Dargie in 1950-1951.

He was a prolific artist of enormous diversity: his work included painting, theatre design, photography, film-making, murals, stained glass, sculpture, computer graphics and laser art. He had a special interest in the use of light and sound and is recognised for his pioneering creative use of modern technology in chromasonics, laser kinetics and 'sound and image' productions. He died on 2 April 1994 in Stirling.

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