https://tamaramarrington.com Tamara Marrington Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:00:52 +0000 https://tamaramarrington.com en https://tamaramarrington.com/energy-unfolding-over-some-time Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:00:52 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/energy-unfolding-over-some-time <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8564c33cbd8a203a3399ce10c39dac4f77d789808070e5cb043829c5b8c01cae/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_19.jpg" data-mid="234160833" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8564c33cbd8a203a3399ce10c39dac4f77d789808070e5cb043829c5b8c01cae/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_19.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" 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50 cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25ba1c15e76a2ca7d02ba62cbed2247060c6b9334e344eda2ba9da31cd80174b/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_23.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d61b5b99e53362eaa958020e26d81085651afc0d52d4146fe2610e55ad9ef91c/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_15.jpg" data-mid="234163073" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d61b5b99e53362eaa958020e26d81085651afc0d52d4146fe2610e55ad9ef91c/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_15.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd4ae8e7e800b38adaa5e1d0b3e1398efa6ad3f8beba7fa85ba513f363118dcb/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_4.jpg" data-mid="234160818" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd4ae8e7e800b38adaa5e1d0b3e1398efa6ad3f8beba7fa85ba513f363118dcb/Energy-Unfolding-Over-Some-Time_TCB_Exhitbion-Documentation_AC_Screen-Use_4.jpg" /> energy unfolding over some time TCB Gallery, Melbourne 2025 paintings made in collaboration with Luisa Hansal curated by Liz Smith an ode to ‘dislodge in a landslide’ further you are You arrive at a place that was once a clearing. Instead of seeing an overgrown, bristling and tangled warp, what confronts you appears vague and ill-defined; nebulous. It feels unstuck in time; detached and losing form altogether. However, this is a place where the further you are from one thing, the closer you are to another. A beam of shimmering yellow skitters across your line of sight, illuminating swathes of land as it moves. The mist begins to fade. This world is altered, yet it is not unlike our own. In this world there are stars, impressions in damp grass, hands reaching, water dappled in amber, cloud stratums scoring an open sky, strange trees, a muddy heart. The inhabitants leap into and entwine around each other, transforming with each encounter. This dance of interlocking and overlapping creates something that breathes and undulates, unfolding and unfurling before concealing once more.&nbsp; The world gains form through the presence of these figures. It is full of surprises and tenderness, grief and lightness, anger and pleasure, yearnings and disappointments, questions and answers, miracles and tragedies; all of the things that make up the world you have left. Sometimes an encounter with something previously unseen and unfelt causes you to see and reconnect.&nbsp; We all experience times where disassociation is so profound that this world no longer makes sense. At the very least, it can feel very lonely and terrifying. But, when your back is turned on this world, couldn’t you also say that this other world you are turned towards - and that is facing you - is just as complex as the world you are not tethered to right now? I think when we feel these kinds of detachments, whether it be from the world, friends, or lovers, we can spend a lot of time trying to get back to a state of connectedness that we forget that being untethered can be just as vital, and part of what it means to feel connected in the first place.&nbsp; closer you are A large square canvas sits on the desk between Tammy and Lui. To their right, a selection of colours sit ready on a palette, along with brushes and two jars of medium. With everything ready, they apply a mixed wash of Manganese Blue and Prussian Blue over the canvas. They then begin to chart large strokes of other colours across the canvas, creating zones which are then worked into using smaller and more varied brushes. Periodically, the canvas is moved in a clockwise direction and, it’s at these moments that Tammy and Lui step back and assess the painting’s progress before working into a new side. The work takes shape quickly; two distinct visual languages entwining and braiding together with ease and intuitiveness. Aside from the occasional - “is it alright if I change this part a little?” - there is a tender understanding of knowing how far to go and when to stop, both teaching each other how to see and showing each other new possibilities with their visual languages.&nbsp; Sitting in the studio with Tammy and Lui, I am afforded the chance to see those moments of connection; when the work starts to make sense. The mundane unfurls, offering something previously unknown, unseen, and unfelt. Sometimes one’s world unfolds through connection with others; limits fall away and suddenly you are becoming again.&nbsp;“Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience you see differently.” Text by Liz Smith Chelsea Hart, Petal, 2021.&nbsp; The Paris Review, ‘James Baldwin: The Art of Fiction No. 78’, Issue 91, Spring, 1984. Chris Kraus, Social Practices, 2021, in the essay “Face,” 176. Documentation: Aaron Claringbold https://tamaramarrington.com/Beamers Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:11:57 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Beamers <img width="5630" height="3753" width_o="5630" height_o="3753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc4114f67120685a6c7ce83c4c7f4eac7fa3ce1aa9137d1ec8de05f1aa206554/Beamers-documentation-20.jpg" data-mid="157017567" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc4114f67120685a6c7ce83c4c7f4eac7fa3ce1aa9137d1ec8de05f1aa206554/Beamers-documentation-20.jpg" /> <img width="5271" height="3514" width_o="5271" height_o="3514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dacb9dddcf6e377c33df0ade3dc81281fe387984545032f6f6dcd64aaae548d/Beamers-documentation-26.jpg" data-mid="157017627" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eef221cebdbb26d98b82d8c8cea67e2ed82a8a122b9d5ca362ee19c2b527a54d/Beamers-documentation-12.jpg" /> <img width="5553" height="3702" width_o="5553" height_o="3702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1006f19b5ad4d45d1560a69cb25a3b73c9c485b7971975cb135b05f4b5eacae6/Beamers-documentation-18.jpg" data-mid="157017566" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1006f19b5ad4d45d1560a69cb25a3b73c9c485b7971975cb135b05f4b5eacae6/Beamers-documentation-18.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1234" width_o="1575" height_o="1234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8674d58b96b3d5a9bbac6e3d252ab99749a86eeac4bc1df306693e917eddd397/Tear-Shadow.jpg" data-mid="168755099" border="0" alt="tear shadow, oil on board, 45 x 60 cm, 2022" data-caption="tear shadow, oil on board, 45 x 60 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8674d58b96b3d5a9bbac6e3d252ab99749a86eeac4bc1df306693e917eddd397/Tear-Shadow.jpg" /> <img width="1123" height="1377" width_o="1123" height_o="1377" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87abeedaeeb41008339b042e75cdc4289a821477645c261623e4fcb463fbc4de/Kite-for-Richard.jpg" data-mid="168755096" border="0" alt="kite (for Richard), oil on paper, 31 x 23 cm, 2022" data-caption="kite (for Richard), oil on paper, 31 x 23 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87abeedaeeb41008339b042e75cdc4289a821477645c261623e4fcb463fbc4de/Kite-for-Richard.jpg" /> <img width="1147" height="1393" width_o="1147" height_o="1393" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04e5ff322f03e626806b4cbfb88f11aee2036f5e76cec53aa4c15353b6d5bf6e/somewhere-anywhere-wherever-nowhere.jpg" data-mid="168755097" border="0" alt="somewhere anywhere wherever nowhere, oil on paper, 31 x 23 cm, 2022" data-caption="somewhere anywhere wherever nowhere, oil on paper, 31 x 23 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04e5ff322f03e626806b4cbfb88f11aee2036f5e76cec53aa4c15353b6d5bf6e/somewhere-anywhere-wherever-nowhere.jpg" /> <img width="1444" height="1180" width_o="1444" height_o="1180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/becefd0d15f9d1114273c7a769d4962ed4ba897aa575b79fe17edaeb410d3637/Soft-Wall.jpg" data-mid="168755100" border="0" alt="soft wall, oil on linen, 41 x 51 cm, 2022" data-caption="soft wall, oil on linen, 41 x 51 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/becefd0d15f9d1114273c7a769d4962ed4ba897aa575b79fe17edaeb410d3637/Soft-Wall.jpg" /> <img width="1131" height="1326" width_o="1131" height_o="1326" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a228acea692a2000cd8be032995976a19b07adef2ff72748ff939f1131b1f8fb/Tip-Toe.jpg" data-mid="168755095" border="0" alt="tip toe, oil on linen, 51 x 41 cm, 2022" data-caption="tip toe, oil on linen, 51 x 41 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a228acea692a2000cd8be032995976a19b07adef2ff72748ff939f1131b1f8fb/Tip-Toe.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1230" width_o="1575" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7da06b5d1ba55810d5e7df95e71fabb2c6d195a58fdbb7ca1cd2ff6d7bd894c2/Sun-Light.jpg" data-mid="168755098" border="0" alt="sun light, oil on board, 45 x 60 cm, 2022" data-caption="sun light, oil on board, 45 x 60 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7da06b5d1ba55810d5e7df95e71fabb2c6d195a58fdbb7ca1cd2ff6d7bd894c2/Sun-Light.jpg" /> <img width="1018" height="1211" width_o="1018" height_o="1211" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/243eb8791244d625dbb32cb59ba683322fd5e05622da5bedcffed15b416fe1fa/Hook.jpg" data-mid="168755094" border="0" alt="hook, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" data-caption="hook, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/243eb8791244d625dbb32cb59ba683322fd5e05622da5bedcffed15b416fe1fa/Hook.jpg" /> <img width="1008" height="1215" width_o="1008" height_o="1215" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b581707ab764b05619a45147af347fd9f71851562ea0ecba38fca56e1cc83a5/Raindrop-falling-on-the-Cairngorms.jpg" data-mid="168755093" border="0" alt="raindrop falling on the Cairngorms, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" data-caption="raindrop falling on the Cairngorms, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b581707ab764b05619a45147af347fd9f71851562ea0ecba38fca56e1cc83a5/Raindrop-falling-on-the-Cairngorms.jpg" /> <img width="996" height="1198" width_o="996" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63c29c2d5cf4e8d9ee9a30acf4c993835e418e99ee60dff444390320abbd3eaa/Falling-Star.jpg" data-mid="168755092" border="0" alt="falling star, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" data-caption="falling star, oil on linen, 46 x 35 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/996/i/63c29c2d5cf4e8d9ee9a30acf4c993835e418e99ee60dff444390320abbd3eaa/Falling-Star.jpg" /> <img width="1283" height="1093" width_o="1283" height_o="1093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f2a8c8ec00bdef75fc102069852789b9291fbc37ab50a25d41c87744b6d8f4f/Alphabet-Soup.jpg" data-mid="168755101" border="0" alt="alphabet soup, oil on canvas, 37 x 45 cm, 2022" data-caption="alphabet soup, oil on canvas, 37 x 45 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f2a8c8ec00bdef75fc102069852789b9291fbc37ab50a25d41c87744b6d8f4f/Alphabet-Soup.jpg" /> <img width="1209" height="1518" width_o="1209" height_o="1518" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/304aae591cdc3b790c431796d0eba3908c79b3def392c5f8e4014e5a41ea57d6/Pathways.jpg" data-mid="168755090" border="0" alt="pathways, oil and fabric on board, 60 x 45 cm, 2022" data-caption="pathways, oil and fabric on board, 60 x 45 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/304aae591cdc3b790c431796d0eba3908c79b3def392c5f8e4014e5a41ea57d6/Pathways.jpg" /> <img width="1233" height="1530" width_o="1233" height_o="1530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e032fc5bfc5424db5e9337e232d70e78ac229055cef120a48856cbb57d410c98/No-Fear.jpg" data-mid="168755091" border="0" alt="no fear, oil and wax on board, 60 x 45 cm, 2022" data-caption="no fear, oil and wax on board, 60 x 45 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e032fc5bfc5424db5e9337e232d70e78ac229055cef120a48856cbb57d410c98/No-Fear.jpg" /> Beamers CASPA, Castlemaine 2022 ‘A beamer is a ray of sunlight. A beamer can range from soft orange morning illumination to more focussed blinding-white circles in the late afternoon. Beamer! is a catchprase you can exclaim to yourself and others when you notice the sunlight showing itself. A beamer is a fleeting manifestation of trust and anticipation, a glimmer of realisation dawning on you, the little door in the painting opening to a pathway after a long while of being shut. By the time these paintings reach you it’ll be spring… the sun will continue to shine on Earth for billions of years to come.’ Curated by Karl Halliday Beamers marks the latest chapter in Tamara Marrington’s exploration in painting, presenting a new body of work that follows the Naarm-based artist as she wades further through the muddied waters that flow between the figurative and the formless. The exhibition signals a turning point in Tamara’s practice. No longer referring to pre-existing images as source material, Beamers sees Tamara purge her paintings of scripted outcomes, choosing instead to brave the journey without a destination in mind. For Tamara, painting is a method of investigation, of “searching” and “following leads”, intuitively pursued in the hopes of discovering unexpected serendipities and synchronicities that supply shape and meaning to the work. With this gesture of creative liberation and self-conviction, the canvas becomes transformed into a tabula rasa of unknown potential to be excavated. The paintings, much like the show’s title, encourage this probing, patient means of observation, carrying with it the prospect of revelation as reward. With Beamers, we are reminded that the word painting is as much a verb as it is a noun, each picture the product of a process, each brushstroke the record of a decision gleaned from doubt. Often in the paintings, abandoned artefacts of previous layers and discontinued threads are left visible, converting the static, fixed object into a living, breathing archive of its own becoming. It is within this restless space of movement, mutation, and mirage that Tamara channels her pictorial language, an ambiguous syntax of symbols and signs that appear to us as celestial bodies of fugitive forms, singing and flickering in some sublime cosmic dance. Drifting through this cosmic forest of infinite possibility, Beamers faithfully hands you the torch, the promise of illumination. All that we see is light. Tell me, what does it reveal? Text by Karl Halliday&nbsp; Install documentation: Karl Halliday Painting documentation: Lucy Foster https://tamaramarrington.com/Out-of-Bounds Tue, 06 Sep 2022 07:05:40 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Out-of-Bounds <img width="2876" height="1920" width_o="2876" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2774a37ba599078915f82aad2a57d5fc49da18789509da3ae0cd0ced9cb627b7/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-1.jpg" data-mid="152186787" border="0" data-scale="70" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2774a37ba599078915f82aad2a57d5fc49da18789509da3ae0cd0ced9cb627b7/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5fac752a03507b4758655e29ddc1f4673ffb42c95544ca6ddaa94a972e1a069/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-3.JPG" data-mid="152186790" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5fac752a03507b4758655e29ddc1f4673ffb42c95544ca6ddaa94a972e1a069/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-3.JPG" /> <img width="2876" height="1920" width_o="2876" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99f07d6a38b668f26f3f85e990dc7f2a518385e1acaa336b937270d26ba52d82/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-4.JPG" data-mid="152186792" border="0" data-scale="70" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99f07d6a38b668f26f3f85e990dc7f2a518385e1acaa336b937270d26ba52d82/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-4.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3168c1a779f3fe3f98e505e73f0a32343b8f3f411afcfcfdaf876ed92b3d4ff4/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-2.JPG" data-mid="152186789" border="0" data-scale="45" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3168c1a779f3fe3f98e505e73f0a32343b8f3f411afcfcfdaf876ed92b3d4ff4/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-2.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6da3e705525e74e76af947912e9fa7127dc4ca60522604ac38af2a5fb9be8d6/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-17.JPG" data-mid="152186805" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="January (ghosts appear mostly in February), oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" data-caption="January (ghosts appear mostly in February), oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6da3e705525e74e76af947912e9fa7127dc4ca60522604ac38af2a5fb9be8d6/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-17.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0781e703c3c24548c03c91a2d116e7309d0eb6fa9bf7d6bdb0cf1a53af4d0886/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-16.JPG" data-mid="152186804" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="February (rock of hair),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" data-caption="February (rock of hair),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0781e703c3c24548c03c91a2d116e7309d0eb6fa9bf7d6bdb0cf1a53af4d0886/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-16.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/459c7f7e81e4b2c844a1c78a4e23d8b514d8fba28efbd26d84452edc9ab64a0e/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-15.JPG" data-mid="152186802" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="March (each reaching for each other),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" data-caption="March (each reaching for each other),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/459c7f7e81e4b2c844a1c78a4e23d8b514d8fba28efbd26d84452edc9ab64a0e/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-15.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5c418105c54dba916128051a8bc78ab70b680ea3bb2df5f1e1bfe70340a2d60/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-14.JPG" data-mid="152186801" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="April (looking for yellow),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" data-caption="April (looking for yellow),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5c418105c54dba916128051a8bc78ab70b680ea3bb2df5f1e1bfe70340a2d60/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-14.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f74ca2ca7907fedfefad348cc1941e21bece691676f78ed95ada19b0b230fc73/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-13.JPG" data-mid="152186800" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="May (writing to the universe),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="May (writing to the universe),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f74ca2ca7907fedfefad348cc1941e21bece691676f78ed95ada19b0b230fc73/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-13.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/820f935c5f580395cd17cb0cd34035b9bf9e2df0dfb2de16f8fd04d10f7f4613/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-12.JPG" data-mid="152186799" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="June (eye of our mum),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="June (eye of our mum),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/820f935c5f580395cd17cb0cd34035b9bf9e2df0dfb2de16f8fd04d10f7f4613/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-12.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0418b12eba23755a146e593a52a06cd57a8b002c25012afc718de861340ca3d2/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-11.JPG" data-mid="152186798" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="July (chin pony),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="July (chin pony),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0418b12eba23755a146e593a52a06cd57a8b002c25012afc718de861340ca3d2/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-11.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/316a39996df4cc71e642443488f7c6a9bc5f188c4878ab702f9f38549d140029/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-9.JPG" data-mid="152186797" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="August (chin chin),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="August (chin chin),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/316a39996df4cc71e642443488f7c6a9bc5f188c4878ab702f9f38549d140029/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-9.JPG" /> <img width="2876" height="1920" width_o="2876" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51fdac5cc5b51e1f155995ead0b00f61035f07404d2c526f4585875d287bef2b/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-8.JPG" data-mid="152186796" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="September (bruise),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 27 x 32 cm, 2022" data-caption="September (bruise),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 27 x 32 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51fdac5cc5b51e1f155995ead0b00f61035f07404d2c526f4585875d287bef2b/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-8.JPG" /> <img width="2876" height="1920" width_o="2876" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b3926303a2e990ede6fb196846376b6cf706b518ed03de7e8e0d606b68fe988/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-7.JPG" data-mid="152186795" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="October (seashells curve and smile),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 27 x 32 cm, 2022" data-caption="October (seashells curve and smile),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 27 x 32 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b3926303a2e990ede6fb196846376b6cf706b518ed03de7e8e0d606b68fe988/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-7.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bd5f6b71c0e336599dc74b23b2a3accb5cd77bf6f36bd9d7c021dffec3b4da4/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-6.JPG" data-mid="152186794" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="November (pond),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="November (pond),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bd5f6b71c0e336599dc74b23b2a3accb5cd77bf6f36bd9d7c021dffec3b4da4/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-6.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="2876" width_o="1920" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d5c5a59986004aea81b89fb80c158c723fd75ea70ba308d5a57ef4ab4e758b8/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-5.JPG" data-mid="152186793" border="0" data-scale="54" alt="December (a letter from home),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" data-caption="December (a letter from home),&nbsp;oil on canvas board, 32 x 27 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d5c5a59986004aea81b89fb80c158c723fd75ea70ba308d5a57ef4ab4e758b8/luisatammy-pica-gl-small-5.JPG" /> Out of Bounds PICA, Boorloo/Perth 2022 Paintings made in collaboration with Luisa Hansal Tom Blake, Pascale Giorgi, Luisa Hansal &amp; Tamara Marrington, Imogen Kotsoglo, Pip Lewi, Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge, Joana Partyka, Tyrown WaiganaCurated by Sarah Wall and Miranda Johnson&nbsp; Luisa Hansal and Tamara Marrington’s creative and personal relationship was formed when the two lived together in a sharehouse in Melbourne. Their collaborative paintings are an homage to friendship, to the ties of connection and affection that draw people together and keep them in each other’s orbit across distance and time. With each painting referring to music, poetry and personal musings or witticisms, each work stands alone as a spark of mutual understanding and shared experiences. The series is also a material and conceptual challenge from one artist to another. Starting from a series of rules - ‘Have the phrase “Ghosts appear mostly in February” in mind as you paint, stick with 10” x 12” size format, only paint with oil paints, and only use these colours: yellow, indigo, Tasman blue, and white’ - each artist would begin a canvas and send it to the other to work on before returning it again. Eventually a new rule was added - ‘Drop one of the colours used in the previous painting and add another’. Presented as a complete series, a gradient emerges as a record of the changing nature of relationships, but also of their endurance despite the fluctuations of time and space.&nbsp; Documentation: Guy Louden https://tamaramarrington.com/As-Real-As-It-Gets Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:14:39 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/As-Real-As-It-Gets <img width="5740" height="3827" width_o="5740" height_o="3827" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a7e6695eb36147456ccd45577de66eac279aac1908358bc337b923367bb8f9e/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-9.jpg" data-mid="147574604" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a7e6695eb36147456ccd45577de66eac279aac1908358bc337b923367bb8f9e/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-9.jpg" /> <img width="5702" height="3801" width_o="5702" height_o="3801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f0761c7d72489b0206ba39de74a3e66249d9750756969152a903b6ed368d215/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-7.jpg" data-mid="147574607" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f0761c7d72489b0206ba39de74a3e66249d9750756969152a903b6ed368d215/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-7.jpg" /> <img width="5674" height="3783" width_o="5674" height_o="3783" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07380b15c912c867f23fad3b333a5e7a759340116ed2dc4cb2fcc0f1a34a76db/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-1.jpg" data-mid="147574610" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07380b15c912c867f23fad3b333a5e7a759340116ed2dc4cb2fcc0f1a34a76db/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-1.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12074c940aea1514d563b95d004e4fef3c2167cb8234c4fcde048bb5179b6497/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-21.jpg" data-mid="147574603" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12074c940aea1514d563b95d004e4fef3c2167cb8234c4fcde048bb5179b6497/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-21.jpg" /> <img width="2211" height="1474" width_o="2211" height_o="1474" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ec6f7c8d42b0c3c1607514477d98b11147f288c9df3db86b14de45b20944350/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-17.jpg" data-mid="147574538" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Re-enter the garden, oil on unstretched canvas, 100 x 210 cm, 2022" data-caption="Re-enter the garden, oil on unstretched canvas, 100 x 210 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ec6f7c8d42b0c3c1607514477d98b11147f288c9df3db86b14de45b20944350/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-17.jpg" /> <img width="2407" height="2977" width_o="2407" height_o="2977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2df8b4659a89b19f2ed3073ff747787ea3a2a27f6b1f30a3d64c21928c30ae69/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-21-copy.jpg" data-mid="147574602" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Spinning around under the party lights, colour pencil and felt tip marker on paper, 15 x 21 cm, 2022 / Genesis, colour pencil on paper, 15 x 21 cm, 2022" data-caption="Spinning around under the party lights, colour pencil and felt tip marker on paper, 15 x 21 cm, 2022 / Genesis, colour pencil on paper, 15 x 21 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2df8b4659a89b19f2ed3073ff747787ea3a2a27f6b1f30a3d64c21928c30ae69/Seventh_As-real-as-it-gets-21-copy.jpg" /> As Real As It Gets Seventh Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne 2022 Alice Ramsden, Matilda Davis, Lou Hubbard, Tamara Marrington, Chris Madden, Spencer Lai, Reuben Daamen, Sam NugentCurated by Matt Siddall and Sam Nugent In ‘As Real As It Gets’, the artists consider dreams, imagination and the subconscious to be important vehicles of creativity. They use world-building as a coping mechanism to liberate themselves from feelings of displacement and loss resulting from extended periods of isolation. These artworks are realisations of both external and internal thoughts and feelings each artist has experienced due to restrictions of work, movement, and socialising through living within the COVID-19 pandemic. These fantastical environments, ranging from the romantic, to camp, to the grotesque, prompt the viewer to notice overlooked flora and fauna and discarded cultural signifiers, creating possibilities to subconsciously escape restrictions of socialisation and movement. The exhibition is a wormhole that imagines the collective works exhibited as a singular mind. A hospitable space is created for daydreamers to imagine alternate realities by gazing into detailed secondary worlds. Documentation: Lucy Foster https://tamaramarrington.com/The-Ultimate-Symbol Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:29:04 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/The-Ultimate-Symbol <img width="4837" height="3203" width_o="4837" height_o="3203" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/107cf9aee4f8d070008839929e8127c92eba2d5cfedff109fe29ccaa217fadf5/The-Ultimate-Symbol_2.jpeg" data-mid="147578979" border="0" data-scale="70" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/107cf9aee4f8d070008839929e8127c92eba2d5cfedff109fe29ccaa217fadf5/The-Ultimate-Symbol_2.jpeg" /> <img width="4928" height="3264" width_o="4928" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a62dd99a5b901fb334ff52a49c1f2754ea508af89045ccef291d28f4e67d82c/The-Ultimate-Symbol_1.jpeg" data-mid="147578980" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a62dd99a5b901fb334ff52a49c1f2754ea508af89045ccef291d28f4e67d82c/The-Ultimate-Symbol_1.jpeg" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04da05875d835ab072bc58812b1f4fc9009c90889005754aee5e93a888e3e841/Love-Lies-Bleeding_2022_35-x-28cm.jpeg" data-mid="147578982" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Love lies bleeding, oil on linen, 28 x 35 cm, 2022" data-caption="Love lies bleeding, oil on linen, 28 x 35 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04da05875d835ab072bc58812b1f4fc9009c90889005754aee5e93a888e3e841/Love-Lies-Bleeding_2022_35-x-28cm.jpeg" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/075b1852de6048c38894b9e3d85f692a2cd0b8760824762cb8db5de1c9fa80f8/Sky-Star_2022_oil-on-linen_35-x-28cm.jpeg" data-mid="147578981" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Sky Star, oil on linen, 28 x 35 cm, 2022" data-caption="Sky Star, oil on linen, 28 x 35 cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/075b1852de6048c38894b9e3d85f692a2cd0b8760824762cb8db5de1c9fa80f8/Sky-Star_2022_oil-on-linen_35-x-28cm.jpeg" /> &nbsp; The Ultimate SymbolNod Space, Boorloo/Perth 2022 Fiona Harman, Luisa Hansal, Isabella Speed, Tamara MarringtonCurated by Fiona Harman Rose is a rose is a rose is roseThe line appears deep in the 1913 poem by Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily. It has been plucked from 367 short sharp lines to stand on its own and it has become legion, mutating into smart variations. A lie is a lie is a lie, a crime is a crime is a crime. Stein used it too, in other work, again and again. The flower and the line, blunted with repetition to an easy shorthand for -&nbsp; things being what they are - the dispensing of symbolism. The end of flowery language.…Color mahogany.Color mahogany center.Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.Loveliness extreme…🌻&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Search terms: world before flowers. Flowers appeared around 130 million years ago. The Cretaceous Period. People also ask: what did the first flower look like? Like a magnolia, apparently. People also ask: what came before flowers. Studies suggest butterflies and moths. Not bright yet; brown. Did the flying insects or the flowers seize the advantage of colour first? Jury’s out on who seduced who. Search terms: When humans. Between five to seven million years ago. The Pliocene, the Pleistocene, the Holocene, the Anthropocene. Flowers are older than we are by 120 million years.And all the things we have done with flowers since.🌻 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;For Ancient Egyptians, the lotus was the sun. For Emily Dickenson, To be a Flower, is profoundResponsibility — , For Botticelli and many others, flowers meant spring, new life. Here, white flowers signal that Makuru has arrived, yellow flowers mean Kambarang. Oscar Wilde is said to have worn a green carnation. Narcissus became a flower of the same name gazing too long in a lake. Margaret Preston painted a tight wad of ‘Western Australian Eucalypt’ against a white modernist screen on a quest to find a uniquely ‘Aboriginal’ form of art (her words). Hans Heysen painted a series of fluffy roses in a basket and Norman Lindsay lamented their ‘useless beauty’, suggesting either another, more useful, form of beauty or that beauty itself is useless. Both are ideas worth contesting. Ask the bees what they think about flowers.Georgia O’Keefe, in 1939: “You hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.”🌻 To make an image of a flower you need a closed scalloping loop of five petals or more (not less) with an any-sized circle in the middle, and also years of training. You need the skill and patience to build layered colour and subtle gradients over hours and hours to capture something that might be gone in the morning. You need to seek transcendence. After moving water, the gossamer layering and intricate detail of the flower might be the most technically challenging surface to reproduce in paint. This is not least because they live so deep in the subconscious and so often in the daily eye-line that they come sheathed in information and assumption and are thus difficult to apprehend, in the moment, with clarity.You need the conviction and the stamina to keep saying, to those assumptions: this is very serious; it is life and deathTo capture a flower you need to live inside the idea: memento mori.🌻 Is it worth saying, yet again, that women artists in the European 19th century were not taught life drawing for ‘reasons of morality’, which barred them from success in the more ‘prestigious’ genres of painting, thus creating a faux-essentialist feedback loop in which the ‘lesser’ genres – including still life and flower painting – became coded as feminine? Is it worth once again holding the judgements in the term ’domestically scaled’ up to the light? What if we said instead: intimate? Always this mental wrestle, writing, faced with any group of artists all coded as female working in a genre coded as feminine; must I say it?&nbsp; What if I just don’t say it? Someone else will if I don’t. Or, what if it’s marginalia worth claiming? What if that’s where the power is?It is a trap, set long ago. Over and over I am doomed to build the pillar of salt just to tell you – don’t look.🌻 As always, things taken out of context obscure the complexity of the whole. It is not, as often quoted, a rose is a rose, but Rose is a rose… It begins with a proper noun. Rose, the name, appears capitalized elsewhere in the poem, alongside the masculine Jack, like in Titanic. One thing is in fact not exactly like what follows. Rose, the women, is a rose, the flower, is a rose is a rose is a –Stein had studied associative psychology and tested often in her writing what occurs in repetition and juxtaposition -&nbsp; the change and dissolution of meaningrather than the reinforcement of it.Of course the word for a flower would perform this sleight of hand trick: as long as we are human, things being what they are, flowers will always be something else.Notes and other readingThis text is much looser collection of ideas explored in an essay written in 2018 for the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art exhibition FLORA at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, which is available to read online here: https://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/2018-exhibitions-archive/floraThat essay drew heavily from Dr Ann Elias’s 2015 book, Useless Beauty: Flowers in Australian Art, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, which makes a compelling argument for an alternative history of Australian art told through floral imagery.The title of this exhibition – and the Georgia O’Keefe line quoted here - &nbsp;is borrowed from Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ Flowers are the Ultimate Symbols, published in the New York Times in 2021, available to read online here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/flowers-are-the-ultimate-symbolsThis text has been written without seeing the paintings in The Ultimate Symbol off screen, and thus - as the lament against thinking without looking would otherwise be ironic - is part one of two. Part two will be written after the exhibition opening, and will address the artists’ works directly.Text by Gemma Weston https://tamaramarrington.com/Spiral-Weed-jewel-in-my-crown Sun, 30 May 2021 11:55:28 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Spiral-Weed-jewel-in-my-crown <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b966e5eb48eabd7c82be0f3e2f8d34be51187e182b5506add8887f52c314102/IMG_1978-copy.jpg" data-mid="109905563" border="0" data-scale="85" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b966e5eb48eabd7c82be0f3e2f8d34be51187e182b5506add8887f52c314102/IMG_1978-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c86c3a649ada7e059cc0bb0c7059bb34778ee018b260d7b4e86953e00503f2a/adj.jpg" data-mid="110069096" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view / Crush, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" data-caption="Installation view / Crush, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c86c3a649ada7e059cc0bb0c7059bb34778ee018b260d7b4e86953e00503f2a/adj.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dd2ee34abb0aac294d0815a10d50f7cc0571369139d54826fa7b5fd919d5bea/IMG_1998.jpg" data-mid="109905751" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dd2ee34abb0aac294d0815a10d50f7cc0571369139d54826fa7b5fd919d5bea/IMG_1998.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1018cad83704fb404f7bdb47744e4c8488848bb8d8f710c1dd09875a890072b/IMG_1996.jpg" data-mid="109906369" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view / Coil, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm" data-caption="Installation view / Coil, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1018cad83704fb404f7bdb47744e4c8488848bb8d8f710c1dd09875a890072b/IMG_1996.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcf79bef5d147d9cf9aeb326a3439627528a08dd25619a32eeedf039b523bce3/IMG_1993.jpg" data-mid="109905333" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view - Hold your fear with love, oil on found PVC tarp, 2021" data-caption="Installation view - Hold your fear with love, oil on found PVC tarp, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcf79bef5d147d9cf9aeb326a3439627528a08dd25619a32eeedf039b523bce3/IMG_1993.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/950573cad3e61a2088076516144ca0d1d1fabb18edabc1b2c805dd8c35a60146/IMG_1982.jpg" data-mid="109905335" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/950573cad3e61a2088076516144ca0d1d1fabb18edabc1b2c805dd8c35a60146/IMG_1982.jpg" /> <img width="2871" height="1975" width_o="2871" height_o="1975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10554effde1cd4ba7c2a58ff712a6124dbdf8fd9c26088fb92ef5c7bdb8cf0e8/IMG_2011.jpg" data-mid="109905334" border="0" alt="Soil on canvas, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" data-caption="Soil on canvas, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10554effde1cd4ba7c2a58ff712a6124dbdf8fd9c26088fb92ef5c7bdb8cf0e8/IMG_2011.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b53e13b26d56dd0b7162ab6a01003b28bfb1e7b13d2e02b4dea599a610e3797c/IMG_1981.jpg" data-mid="109905331" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b53e13b26d56dd0b7162ab6a01003b28bfb1e7b13d2e02b4dea599a610e3797c/IMG_1981.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4e3d40df79109a143d12eea5f90f19fb7471ae3b6f55003e3b7542229c45d6/IMG_1986.jpg" data-mid="109972945" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd4e3d40df79109a143d12eea5f90f19fb7471ae3b6f55003e3b7542229c45d6/IMG_1986.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b664761af50b427bcd1ae53993faeacda83d8989c311d520183ba61f7afcd96/IMG_1989-copy.jpg" data-mid="109972946" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b664761af50b427bcd1ae53993faeacda83d8989c311d520183ba61f7afcd96/IMG_1989-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8af7640b2074f3f913cfa22c6af93aacf2fca22c9197d2316979b267e0eac2a/IMG_1985.jpg" data-mid="152387845" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8af7640b2074f3f913cfa22c6af93aacf2fca22c9197d2316979b267e0eac2a/IMG_1985.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2056" width_o="3088" height_o="2056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5ebe54fb6e8880817a8aef131c4b6225342d5c2993dbdd1d244aec92687534f/IMG_2002.jpg" data-mid="109908483" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view / Re-enter the Garden, oil on unstretched canvas, 100 x 210 cm, 2021" data-caption="Installation view / Re-enter the Garden, oil on unstretched canvas, 100 x 210 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5ebe54fb6e8880817a8aef131c4b6225342d5c2993dbdd1d244aec92687534f/IMG_2002.jpg" /> <img width="1181" height="1339" width_o="1181" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96584efa94d7fad79c85db0e034569423ae27dd102b43bc76ceb6972f0131938/What-paint.jpg" data-mid="110253169" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="What Paint? oil on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" data-caption="What Paint? oil on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96584efa94d7fad79c85db0e034569423ae27dd102b43bc76ceb6972f0131938/What-paint.jpg" /> <img width="1181" height="1334" width_o="1181" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/397a8c6ca8e5e0311fdd7d85adaf8cb54c22324bceb1fa4909f17cabc1b72e7f/Vivid-again.jpg" data-mid="110253168" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Vivid Again, oil, acrylic and colour pencil on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" data-caption="Vivid Again, oil, acrylic and colour pencil on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/397a8c6ca8e5e0311fdd7d85adaf8cb54c22324bceb1fa4909f17cabc1b72e7f/Vivid-again.jpg" /> <img width="1181" height="1325" width_o="1181" height_o="1325" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6be2529b85cb82dd5b7e634de827c87c76fb75159e430df1a12f6c1af2f4d5f7/Offerings.jpg" data-mid="110253170" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Offerings, oil, colour pencil and sunflower pollen on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" data-caption="Offerings, oil, colour pencil and sunflower pollen on unstretched black canvas, 24 x 28 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6be2529b85cb82dd5b7e634de827c87c76fb75159e430df1a12f6c1af2f4d5f7/Offerings.jpg" /> <img width="3439" height="4545" width_o="3439" height_o="4545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/644d0241af67ff085d881d42fb2fdfeb1e9231e1193bb128a81034765de7fd11/Faith-_-Void.jpg" data-mid="110073153" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Faith/Void, oil and limestone grit on unstretched black canvas, 2021" data-caption="Faith/Void, oil and limestone grit on unstretched black canvas, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/644d0241af67ff085d881d42fb2fdfeb1e9231e1193bb128a81034765de7fd11/Faith-_-Void.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="4344" width_o="3510" height_o="4344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/660a7f347d7b1eeb1962bdd771150d2479f0b5db6e11eef8f9d512cc28a71ebc/Original.jpg" data-mid="110073164" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Sky Trophy 1, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" data-caption="Sky Trophy 1, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/660a7f347d7b1eeb1962bdd771150d2479f0b5db6e11eef8f9d512cc28a71ebc/Original.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="4375" width_o="3510" height_o="4375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/014e574ff231625ac8c3f4e324079122bda1f2c1a7bd052c1f8e8d47e90f9a6e/Sky-Trophy1.jpg" data-mid="110073165" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Sky Trophy 2, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" data-caption="Sky Trophy 2, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/014e574ff231625ac8c3f4e324079122bda1f2c1a7bd052c1f8e8d47e90f9a6e/Sky-Trophy1.jpg" /> <img width="3507" height="4328" width_o="3507" height_o="4328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a666f07ee1658fa33fef1fc22abddfd6ebb41f945d3043e7f2077eccb9af338c/It-Never-Is.jpg" data-mid="110073161" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Sky Trophy 3, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021 " data-caption="Sky Trophy 3, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a666f07ee1658fa33fef1fc22abddfd6ebb41f945d3043e7f2077eccb9af338c/It-Never-Is.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="4302" width_o="3510" height_o="4302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8282d020c6acabe3aed81e3577121f80d8bb02669c180686921cdd29aac7c66/Sky-Trophy2.jpg" data-mid="110073166" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Sky Trophy 4, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" data-caption="Sky Trophy 4, oil on unstretched canvas, 32.5 x 36 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8282d020c6acabe3aed81e3577121f80d8bb02669c180686921cdd29aac7c66/Sky-Trophy2.jpg" /> <img width="1919" height="2088" width_o="1919" height_o="2088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d094fd10fa0c7de95aa570106d254f44920db47344111e605c0c03b6e3638c5/glistening-drinkflow-state.JPG" data-mid="152387916" border="0" alt="Flow state, glistening drink, oil on canvas, 2021" data-caption="Flow state, glistening drink, oil on canvas, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d094fd10fa0c7de95aa570106d254f44920db47344111e605c0c03b6e3638c5/glistening-drinkflow-state.JPG" /> <img width="1911" height="3127" width_o="1911" height_o="3127" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfdfd94543ffe6bac689d681f718a51d15916bf166e0de9dfee6f5f0d87f790e/5.jpg" data-mid="110073132" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 1, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 1, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfdfd94543ffe6bac689d681f718a51d15916bf166e0de9dfee6f5f0d87f790e/5.jpg" /> <img width="1919" height="3132" width_o="1919" height_o="3132" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8773257fbfadad2e8ec208ca11aa078a941a827552aaf0eb2d488bf9ecb0b34/8.jpg" data-mid="110073144" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 2, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 2, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8773257fbfadad2e8ec208ca11aa078a941a827552aaf0eb2d488bf9ecb0b34/8.jpg" /> <img width="1919" height="3132" width_o="1919" height_o="3132" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ac6e42aeb3f78c5adc3d58d0139dca0f8d4698589cc4eba68a78dd506221d90/7.jpg" data-mid="110073140" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 3, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 3, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ac6e42aeb3f78c5adc3d58d0139dca0f8d4698589cc4eba68a78dd506221d90/7.jpg" /> <img width="1912" height="3130" width_o="1912" height_o="3130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bfabf317458fef2758d205f1d7269537df798eea705ba1b30e84d20e987d855/2.jpg" data-mid="110073118" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 4, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 4, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bfabf317458fef2758d205f1d7269537df798eea705ba1b30e84d20e987d855/2.jpg" /> <img width="1914" height="3125" width_o="1914" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2259a5f54ba94419145c1a26976042ed02902f5c21c341f61e24c4fa4da6cab/4.jpg" data-mid="110073128" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 5, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 5, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2259a5f54ba94419145c1a26976042ed02902f5c21c341f61e24c4fa4da6cab/4.jpg" /> <img width="1910" height="3128" width_o="1910" height_o="3128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdb4ae93b0d009df3c0188e9f3a02f62e01f5d4c8106224c47f65c6c1a782403/3.jpg" data-mid="110073123" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 6, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 6, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdb4ae93b0d009df3c0188e9f3a02f62e01f5d4c8106224c47f65c6c1a782403/3.jpg" /> <img width="1914" height="3129" width_o="1914" height_o="3129" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8e8b2a34efb7ab7ff7ff86c95394f79232d0f7ffa36b9ee6f7e565a671e910a/1.jpg" data-mid="110073114" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 7, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 7, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8e8b2a34efb7ab7ff7ff86c95394f79232d0f7ffa36b9ee6f7e565a671e910a/1.jpg" /> <img width="1912" height="3127" width_o="1912" height_o="3127" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57b7ca8b2327b8de0530b5e41c78d08cd300986f83f274e3ae522ef5e5844ec7/9.jpg" data-mid="110073516" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 8, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 8, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57b7ca8b2327b8de0530b5e41c78d08cd300986f83f274e3ae522ef5e5844ec7/9.jpg" /> <img width="1912" height="3129" width_o="1912" height_o="3129" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd29e4508e2a2d96423f97c21e56b115a879e6a25f5c25d3cf7bd253291f9b6c/6.jpg" data-mid="110074409" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled 9, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" data-caption="Untitled 9, oil on paper, 12 x 20 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd29e4508e2a2d96423f97c21e56b115a879e6a25f5c25d3cf7bd253291f9b6c/6.jpg" /> Spiral weed,&nbsp; jewel in my crown&nbsp; Off-site exhibition at Brisbane Terrace, Boorloo/Perth 2021 Curated by Elizabeth Smith pretty caught up in a spiral of spines and frondsa glimmer of wire in the soft tangle meaning briefly catchingin the corner of your eye When I look at Tammy’s work, I am reminded of Marguerite Duras’ piece The Lover, particularly the part where she writes “she pays close attention to externals, to the light, to the noise of the city in which the room is immersed...” Enmeshed in a larger reflection where expressing meaning is obscured and lost, the action of focusing on the margins stabilises her and her feelings towards her lover; feeling present in the periphery. A discovery of wire in a tangled mess of weeds became some kind of portal or way of seeing – of looking between rather than at something. What lies between the tangled, grid-like wire is otherworldly yet recognisable. Tammy pursues meaning through a code of dead and discarded things, found objects, weeds, scrawls and letters, and disjointed sentences. She asks you to look as if seeing the world through peripheral vision. Even at their brightest moments, the works are receding. The landscapes that Tammy paints transcribe complex renderings of emotional states. Slippages and gestural strokes combine with uneasy letters and word fragments to create so much content, they almost lead to a void. But as you focus on isolated parts of the composition, details emerge and unite to suggest the possibility of a distinct statement. Just as you reach this point, the message re-obscures itself; its “language dislodges like rocks in a landslide.” Everlasting always exists in fleeting’s notches and grooves. As such, the works are forms of myth-making for that moment of clarity before total disintegration, of almost knowing expressed in lively and vibrant echoes fading out in spirals.Text By Elizabeth Smith Chris Kraus, Social Practices, in the essay “Face,” 176. Ibid., in the essay “A History of Destabilization (Lucie Stahl),” 225. https://tamaramarrington.com/Saplings Mon, 31 May 2021 11:01:32 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Saplings <img width="5999" height="3999" width_o="5999" height_o="3999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc4447b6393625cc22fe7786e2ad2968d16a3770d76c19e149d9dc1c35722301/Exhalation-24MP-20210416--7.jpg" data-mid="110489208" border="0" data-scale="60" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc4447b6393625cc22fe7786e2ad2968d16a3770d76c19e149d9dc1c35722301/Exhalation-24MP-20210416--7.jpg" /> <img width="5999" height="3999" width_o="5999" height_o="3999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59dbb96fc05392a380fd4898ed650a5f79700773495df4f5f2288dccfedb36d5/Exhalation-24MP-20210416-6888.jpg" data-mid="110489210" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59dbb96fc05392a380fd4898ed650a5f79700773495df4f5f2288dccfedb36d5/Exhalation-24MP-20210416-6888.jpg" /> <img width="5999" height="3999" width_o="5999" height_o="3999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d308460b21e3b4269858f45ee215acc07ba9625578c8e1a5404d97c7aac9a42/Exhalation-24MP-20210416-6942.jpg" data-mid="110489211" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d308460b21e3b4269858f45ee215acc07ba9625578c8e1a5404d97c7aac9a42/Exhalation-24MP-20210416-6942.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f3f0207f269c0f445f8346a229e0992a8305ec4822ccb60f79e1a7030a60c9c/Pilot.jpg" data-mid="110489170" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Pilot, oil on paper with handmade frame, 23 x 31 cm, 2021" data-caption="Pilot, oil on paper with handmade frame, 23 x 31 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f3f0207f269c0f445f8346a229e0992a8305ec4822ccb60f79e1a7030a60c9c/Pilot.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb68858555a4a34971605d368bd003582d644d014dec58a0be1407c9dc0b1fc6/Searchlight.jpg" data-mid="110489172" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Searchlight, oil on paper with handmade, 23 x 31 cm, 2021" data-caption="Searchlight, oil on paper with handmade, 23 x 31 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb68858555a4a34971605d368bd003582d644d014dec58a0be1407c9dc0b1fc6/Searchlight.jpg" /> <img width="4152" height="5292" width_o="4152" height_o="5292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94a015da0389403fae0c2e2e9a37442424d9da826a7c1d24312b26a246cd0904/Tamara-Marrington-Soft-Front-Strong-Back-2021-Oil-on-Canvas-35-x-45-cm-Courtney-Lopez-Esder.jpg" data-mid="110491016" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Soft Front Strong Back, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" data-caption="Soft Front Strong Back, oil on canvas, 35 x 45 cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94a015da0389403fae0c2e2e9a37442424d9da826a7c1d24312b26a246cd0904/Tamara-Marrington-Soft-Front-Strong-Back-2021-Oil-on-Canvas-35-x-45-cm-Courtney-Lopez-Esder.jpg" /> Saplings Stanley Street Gallery, Warrane/Sydney 2021 Tamara Marrington, Anna May Kirk, Catriona Secker, Rebecca Selleck and Chrystal RimmerCurated by Emma Pinsent Saplings are not stagnant. By their very definition, saplings are dynamic — growing, branching out and forming connections. It’s a fitting title, really. It allows the encompassment of everything that this exhibition lends itself to; acting as a springboard to explore ideas relating to the Anthropocene, natural and social history, biology, ecology, climate change, memory, innocence, and birth and death. Many of the artists mentioned the strange parallels that were drawn between their lives and the concept of saplings in the lead up to this exhibition. It’s not surprising, as all five artists; Rebecca Selleck, Tamara Marrington, Catriona Secker, Chrystal Rimmer and Anna May Kirk; deal with notions relating to the natural world in some way or another, and artists are, by nature, contextually responsive. Nevertheless, I think it is an important point to note. We exist by virtue of the natural world — a world perfectly climatised for the actuation of life. Inevitably, one should assume that of course, parallels would be drawn between the artists and the notion of saplings — one cannot be separated from the other. Paul Adams, in his article Placing the Anthropocene: a day in the life of an enviro-organism (2015), puts this nicely — referring to this symbiotic relationship as an “ecological consciousness”. “Ecological consciousness therefore must follow a contextual understanding of self-identity, based in not-always-human communications, requiring us to see the foundation of the human self as ‘out there’ in what we call ‘nature’ rather than just ‘in here’ in the mind” (Adams, 2015) The artists in saplings are particularly attuned to this notion of the natural world and self-identity as a fixed partnership. In Young eastern grey (2021), Rebecca Selleck recalls a journey back home through national park, and the heart-wrenching moment where an eastern grey kangaroo joey died in her arms after rescuing him from his dead mother that was hit and left on the side of the road. Selleck draws an emotional parallel between the joey, and her own son, who at 10 months old had spent most of his life in hospital from debilitating illnesses. Casting the joey in bronze, Selleck also pays homage to the kangaroo mother; signified by a Eucalypt sapling under which she was left, with bronze cast twigs and leaves. Much of Selleck’s work addresses the need for human accountability in environmental and ecology ethics in Australia, leaving the viewer wondering, who is responsible for the joey? Tamara Marrington makes similar connections between memory, identity and the natural world. In Soft Front Strong Back (2021), Marrington paints a dried-up leaf in close view, surrounded by floating letters that attempt to congregate into words. This combination of imagery and text is not uncommon for Marrington, whose practice often takes the form of energetic environments; where plants, flowers and animals, are used as evocations of subjectivity and memory. An obvious observation in Soft Front Strong Back is that the leaf is shaped like a heart. Not so obvious, is the artist’s embedded entanglement of emotion, memory and meaning, which upon further consideration, reveals itself in the leaf ’s rendering of a soft, skin-like complexion, and through Marrington’s words, “here is my heart, searching still, spiky but now a little softer, tentative”. Through Marrington’s fusing of poetry and painting, one can’t help recall poetry by E.E Cummings: “here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)” &nbsp;(Cummings, 1952). Such metaphors that draw upon nature to convey feelings of the heart; are not new concepts in any sense and highlight traditional discourses into human/nature binaries (Power, 2005, p. 40). Considering the two as polars that must always fight for hegemony, is a reductive concept in any sense — humans do not work inde- pendently of nature, and nature is not independent of humans. In Tamara Marrington and also Catriona Secker’s work, such traditional readings are able to be evaded; allowing the melting of constituents together as one entity. For instance, in Secker’s work, we see the peculiar, surreal blending of microscopic organisms, plants, animals and human subjectivity. Taking natural history illustrations as a starting point, Secker’s work speaks to the inherent processes, consciousness and connections present within nature. In Understory and Overstory (2021), Secker centres each painting around a single sapling “character”; illustrating the unspoken and unseen interconnection that binds organisms to ecosystems. By giving each character human elements, Secker draws us into considering our part in the scenario — particularly in Understory, where the form of the organism is reminiscent of a kind of bodily system; perhaps respiratory or reproductive. Such readings have the capacity to position two seemingly opposing organisms side-by-side — stirring the question: what is our part in this scenario? Chyrstal Rimmer’s work expands upon this question, stipulating plastic’s impact upon the natural environment has redefined the state of the contemporary environmental landscape. The human vs nature dichotomy is something that Rimmer tries hard to destabilise. Through a rigorous studio-practice of breaking down waste plastic to be remodelled into the form of fallen trees, twigs, and fungi taken from the bush; Rimmer’s work not only conflates the human environment with the natural one — quite literally fusing the two together — but also straddles other opposing ideologies inherent in art; such as painting and sculpture. The painterly-like surface of melted plastics — that are restructured through the use of moulds and later, into an object upon cooling — becomes synonymous with Rimmer’s main argument: “to dismantle problematic ideologies including nature’s oversimplification as an entity in opposition to man.” Rimmer’s suggestion of plastic as being inextricable to the natural environment, speaks to a growing concern for the mitigation of discrepancies between industrial and economic aims, the sustainability of the natural environment and the safety of people in future generations. Anna May Kirk engages with this concern, too, in Exhalation (2021). Standing amidst the backdrop of the 2020 bushfires, which saw the nation stir into climate emergency, the work references climate concerns throughout history. By appropriating "pomader balls” — vials commonly used during&nbsp;the Middle Ages that were filled with perfumes like civet and musk, seen to deter polluted air that was perceived to be the work of witches; and Victorian era “tear bottles” — Exhalation points a finger at similar denialist sentiment that circulated during 2020: that the bushfires were a result of arsonists and not directly related to climate change. Interestingly in Exhalation, the biomorphic glass vial — which Kirk fills with a combination of native essential&nbsp;oils, spices and other scents — is thread, hung and mounted to a glass mirror in the angled shape of Medieval paintings. Decisions such as these are undoubtedly deliberate and as the viewer looks back at their own reflection, Kirk asks us to consider&nbsp;the mirroring of past and future and the viability of the world, not only for ourselves, but for future generations. Pausing for a moment to consider this, I return to the initial image of a sapling. Green-as-green in it’s fresh new growth, embarking of new beginnings and looking to the future. This here, is the bottom line, in what seems is an exhibition made up of many divergent, mirroring and aligned concepts. As much as saplings is about looking at the natural world through the lens of past experience — challenging outmoded perceptions of human beings as independent from the natural world — it is also deeply rooted in the future. What will become of the green-as-green sapling, with many odds stacked against it? Whilst such a question certainly poses as pessimistic, saplings, I believe, is grounded in hope. If art is good at anything, it is the ability to digest contemporary concerns and concepts; chewing the curd and spitting out the parts it doesn’t like. Where saplings defines itself beyond that though; is in it’s ability to reflect, draw parallels, challenge and generate conversations about not only the past and present — but the future, too.Text by Emma Pinsent Documentation: Docqment https://tamaramarrington.com/ORB-FLOWER-EGG-CAT-TREE-PIGEON Wed, 27 May 2020 08:21:08 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/ORB-FLOWER-EGG-CAT-TREE-PIGEON <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/369d80d4db7cc06d3aa5774ab73da96502d1e1177bb7ea0cc9fd10eb950161ac/TAM-1.jpg" data-mid="74833285" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/369d80d4db7cc06d3aa5774ab73da96502d1e1177bb7ea0cc9fd10eb950161ac/TAM-1.jpg" /> <img width="5236" height="3495" width_o="5236" height_o="3495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f141e540ee217fed56b50aa4fa3e480bcb03a2a66453d2ab9fec87b7cb141ae/TAM-32.jpg" data-mid="74833295" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f141e540ee217fed56b50aa4fa3e480bcb03a2a66453d2ab9fec87b7cb141ae/TAM-32.jpg" /> <img width="3068" height="3727" width_o="3068" height_o="3727" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ff6bb79e5c977d5b100b2fd3cccbe150033b4f9c1b704b45621e5b7dd254c76/ORB-3.jpg" data-mid="81250812" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ff6bb79e5c977d5b100b2fd3cccbe150033b4f9c1b704b45621e5b7dd254c76/ORB-3.jpg" /> <img width="4016" height="5554" width_o="4016" height_o="5554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17a424828bb1d98d1d5105cc05c72352fe0d1d4e55d80482f8a721e976a9b08a/TAM-12.jpg" data-mid="74833290" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="FLOWER, oil on board with handmade concrete support, 29.5 x 37 cm, 2019" data-caption="FLOWER, oil on board with handmade concrete support, 29.5 x 37 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17a424828bb1d98d1d5105cc05c72352fe0d1d4e55d80482f8a721e976a9b08a/TAM-12.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5465" width_o="3648" height_o="5465" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b723588436b520fd67ac7afc70832d7951e28f4d48537f92ba9772827c354d81/TAM-13.jpg" data-mid="74833291" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="EGG, oil on board with handmade concrete support, 29.5 x 37 cm, 2019" data-caption="EGG, oil on board with handmade concrete support, 29.5 x 37 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b723588436b520fd67ac7afc70832d7951e28f4d48537f92ba9772827c354d81/TAM-13.jpg" /> <img width="2207" height="2689" width_o="2207" height_o="2689" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19db635dd53be0267b56c547481de9f6bc15842a6ccce38ad6ae4fa7f7c874aa/ORB-4.jpg" data-mid="80891578" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="PIGEON, oil on board, 20 x 25 cm, 2019" data-caption="PIGEON, oil on board, 20 x 25 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19db635dd53be0267b56c547481de9f6bc15842a6ccce38ad6ae4fa7f7c874aa/ORB-4.jpg" /> <img width="2183" height="2659" width_o="2183" height_o="2659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b2b57c814b752ea5e021e9fe023039d16d3b72b1543f46902694a6ce88f5f01/ORB-5.jpg" data-mid="80891579" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="CAT, oil on board, 20 x 25 cm, 2019" data-caption="CAT, oil on board, 20 x 25 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b2b57c814b752ea5e021e9fe023039d16d3b72b1543f46902694a6ce88f5f01/ORB-5.jpg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39a76ffc5b0c2b2c4336778e083975efc14c241f0fa77db93e731b562ed0e472/TAM-10.jpg" data-mid="74833288" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="TREE, oil on two linen boards, 40 x 60 cm, 2019" data-caption="TREE, oil on two linen boards, 40 x 60 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39a76ffc5b0c2b2c4336778e083975efc14c241f0fa77db93e731b562ed0e472/TAM-10.jpg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dce285ce5e024907aca79adc08c0f5f88f030d3237ed0fa54b8662655bf293cf/TAM-27.jpg" data-mid="74833294" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="R I D I N G, oil on flamless candles, dimensions variable, 2019" data-caption="R I D I N G, oil on flamless candles, dimensions variable, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dce285ce5e024907aca79adc08c0f5f88f030d3237ed0fa54b8662655bf293cf/TAM-27.jpg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71caaf6d0a215091bb3d59b9481a6c94c2b637efd8f3677c9974b826d8f6ae53/TAM-16.jpg" data-mid="74833292" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="ORB, oil on four boards with cedar shelf, 35 x 120 cm, 2019" data-caption="ORB, oil on four boards with cedar shelf, 35 x 120 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71caaf6d0a215091bb3d59b9481a6c94c2b637efd8f3677c9974b826d8f6ae53/TAM-16.jpg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8c50e487f533cd442c35a6375aef70eee5fc5fe8eb800052869117b40d14aac/TAM-11.jpg" data-mid="74833289" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="ORB, oil on four boards with cedar shelf, 35 x 120 cm, 2019" data-caption="ORB, oil on four boards with cedar shelf, 35 x 120 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8c50e487f533cd442c35a6375aef70eee5fc5fe8eb800052869117b40d14aac/TAM-11.jpg" /> ORB, FLOWER, EGG, TREE, CAT, PIGEON&nbsp;Pig Melon, Boorloo/Perth 2019 I’m painting grass. In a flash the strip of orbs reminds me of the yearly winter overgrowth of wild oats and nasturtiums in the backyard of my parent’s house, pre-subdivision. child-me used to sludge through the long grasses, hems of her pants soaked with dew, disappointed by the limits of the garden. One corner was so overrun by vines that you couldn’t see the fence at all - I liked this part best because as a concept, it was limitless. The event of the property being cut in half now presents itself as a soft delineation between periods of life (child, less-child). What would she think of me? In writing this I realise that it’s her I’m making these paintings for. I take a break from studio hell and try to imagine her: small and wispy, hair down to her torso, brow slightly furrowed. She’d look down on me for smoking, probably pretend to cough. Today I’m frustrated – the paint has played a trick on me where one egg has life and the other doesn’t. Sometimes a painting is clear and other times it stares back at you like the wall that it is. Frustration dissipates though: I step through a portal where I am a child again, drawing. Through some slip of the hand she makes a wrong mark on the page but is filled with elation when she realises that this is the mark that makes the whole image true. I sense the same invigoration in me now and that comforts me. Tonight, I love painting and painting loves me. Documentation: Lachlan Parkin https://tamaramarrington.com/Chin-Pony Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:03:41 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Chin-Pony <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2df0fb121145a033d133e387a0ce1626490fc208d2ea2000e784ed60d8769dd/P1014334.JPG" data-mid="74839072" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2df0fb121145a033d133e387a0ce1626490fc208d2ea2000e784ed60d8769dd/P1014334.JPG" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f733cd5390f26451dd64654bfa7c6fc9d0841d46e2e3e31497ce3fa437b805e7/P1014338.JPG" data-mid="74839074" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view / For a second it's still there, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2019" data-caption="Installation view / For a second it's still there, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f733cd5390f26451dd64654bfa7c6fc9d0841d46e2e3e31497ce3fa437b805e7/P1014338.JPG" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbec9e2acf43eab829ff24d7a221bf1b4a62c3be44c4ac8f8885272a3c0741aa/P1014341.JPG" data-mid="74839075" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbec9e2acf43eab829ff24d7a221bf1b4a62c3be44c4ac8f8885272a3c0741aa/P1014341.JPG" /> <img width="4169" height="3003" width_o="4169" height_o="3003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e9f150788571e27ca81e7d7a37820fd80ca48e1444d7bbb329aebfcc991eaee/P1014342.JPG" data-mid="81459881" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Stretch, oil on canvas, 30 x 38 cm, 2018 / Flee, oil on canvas, 30 x 38 cm, 2018" data-caption="Stretch, oil on canvas, 30 x 38 cm, 2018 / Flee, oil on canvas, 30 x 38 cm, 2018" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e9f150788571e27ca81e7d7a37820fd80ca48e1444d7bbb329aebfcc991eaee/P1014342.JPG" /> <img width="2127" height="2118" width_o="2127" height_o="2118" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b05a4cbe215808a93130afe2db5ecb23d58cf012d120f06a4ed587547ffeec53/4-Chin-Pony.JPG" data-mid="81254893" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Fat sunflower looks into its own future, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm, 2019" data-caption="Fat sunflower looks into its own future, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b05a4cbe215808a93130afe2db5ecb23d58cf012d120f06a4ed587547ffeec53/4-Chin-Pony.JPG" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eea49e48354210cf93f4e2cb054e7416396bae484651ed205ed03d259acf7326/P1014337.JPG" data-mid="81459882" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Untitled, plaster cast of pavement heart, 15.5 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm, 2019" data-caption="Untitled, plaster cast of pavement heart, 15.5 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm, 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eea49e48354210cf93f4e2cb054e7416396bae484651ed205ed03d259acf7326/P1014337.JPG" /> Chin Ponyw Luisa Hansal Chamber Presents, Naarm/Melbourne 2019 Of course, you do get obsessed and at those times what you wanna know gets drawn toward you. How close can you get? (Ghosts appear mostly in February). How do you describe something which is invisible and unknowable? When the train goes by, what should I pay attention to? The sound, or what I see, or what goes on in my mind, or maybe all three of them at once (three guesses; a coincidence, a connection outside, a connection inside). It's so beautiful to see someone thinking. &nbsp;&nbsp;Excerpt from A Letter From Home by “Blue” Gene Tyranny &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://tamaramarrington.com/Riding-Thru-the-Feeling Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:13:54 +0000 Tamara Marrington https://tamaramarrington.com/Riding-Thru-the-Feeling <img width="4027" height="2962" width_o="4027" height_o="2962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be74a11d503d2cdb1c758877a3879c43845439a4b18b1c063ff6584bc0c04e0e/P1014155.JPG" data-mid="74839970" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Installation view / Riding Thru the Feeling, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm / Warning, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm / Love is Overtaking Me, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm" data-caption="Installation view / Riding Thru the Feeling, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm / Warning, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm / Love is Overtaking Me, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 cm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be74a11d503d2cdb1c758877a3879c43845439a4b18b1c063ff6584bc0c04e0e/P1014155.JPG" /> <img width="4511" height="3216" width_o="4511" height_o="3216" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d440bd35b69d98c8d6da31220363d6a12e294a2b097b3edb7eb0eea6be6162e8/P1014160.JPG" data-mid="81460906" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Riding Through The Feeling (appropriated Bill Callahan lyrics), oil on wall, dimensions variable, 2018 " data-caption="Riding Through The Feeling (appropriated Bill Callahan lyrics), oil on wall, dimensions variable, 2018 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d440bd35b69d98c8d6da31220363d6a12e294a2b097b3edb7eb0eea6be6162e8/P1014160.JPG" /> <img width="4481" height="3216" width_o="4481" height_o="3216" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6622f3e73f47b8a6d14cb0527a0d8febf73e3b706c85f46bea97c88dcd44cdb8/P1014161.JPG" data-mid="81460907" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="Love Is Overtaking Me (appropriated Arthur Russell lyrics), oil on wall, dimensions variable, 2018 " data-caption="Love Is Overtaking Me (appropriated Arthur Russell lyrics), oil on wall, dimensions variable, 2018 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6622f3e73f47b8a6d14cb0527a0d8febf73e3b706c85f46bea97c88dcd44cdb8/P1014161.JPG" /> <img width="2259" height="2195" width_o="2259" height_o="2195" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9399ceda0cfb631357ded2ee8461e64b09e71e6e96aa5bd37792aa03ef23586c/IMG_0428.jpg" data-mid="74841246" border="0" data-scale="55" alt="A nice and opportune photo taken on opening night, credit: Mark Dustin" data-caption="A nice and opportune photo taken on opening night, credit: Mark Dustin" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9399ceda0cfb631357ded2ee8461e64b09e71e6e96aa5bd37792aa03ef23586c/IMG_0428.jpg" /> Riding Thru the FeelingUniversity House, Naarm/Melbourne2018 riding through the feeling love is overtaking&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;me&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; A show about Love - wall inscriptions are appropriated lyrics by Bill Callahan and Arthur Russell.