Tamara’s practice pursues the unknowable through an abstract language of hazy symbols, fragments, scrawls, and disjointed letters. At the heart of Tamara’s process is an attentiveness to the meaningful coincidences encountered through painting. These revelations are felt through acts of covering and building upon the surface of the canvas. As such, each work is like a palimpsest. Swirling and scumbling brushwork hold allusions to the lived world, celestial bodies and language where meaning is able to be briefly held before dissolving once more.
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Education
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing and Printmaking), Victorian College of the Arts, Vic
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Beamers, Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space (CASPA), Vic
2021 Spiral Weed, Jewel In My Crown, Brisbane Terrace, WA
2020 Online Viewing Room, LON Gallery, Vic
2019 ORB, FLOWER, EGG, TREE, CAT, PIGEON, Pig Melon, WA
2018 Riding Thru the Feeling, University House, Vic
Group Exhibitions
2022 Out of Bounds, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), WA
2022 As Real As It Gets, Seventh Gallery, VIC
2022 The Ultimate Symbol, Nod, WA
2021 Saplings, Stanley Street Gallery, NSW
2019 Chin Pony, Chamber Presents, Vic
2018 Great Western, The Living Museum of the West, Vic
2018 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Vic
2018 Majlis Travelling Scholarship Finalists, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Vic
Fundraiser Exhibitions
2022 Cathedral Cabinent Fundraiser, Cathedral Cabinet, Vic
2022 Pig Melon’s 3rd Birthday Party, Pigmelon, WA
2019 - 20 Blindside B-SIDES, Blindside, Vic
Awards & Residencies
2021 Artist-in-residence, Fremantle Arts Centre
2018 Finalist, Majlis Travelling Scholarship
2017 Recipient of Stuart Black Drawing Memorial Scholarship
Writing
2022 ‘But sometimes it’s nice to have more questions than answers’, interview with Brit Jackson, Partial Magazine