Tamara Tallent
Tamara Tallent, Installation view of The Great Australian Fairytale, Treasury Gardens.
Cardboard, timber, steel, acrylic paint, polypropylene sheets, audio visual animation on digital screen 4 minutes 26 seconds, 2023. Documentation by Kaye Manners.
Tamara Tallent, The Great Australian Fairytale, Treasury Gardens.
Cardboard, audio visual animation on digital screen 4 minutes 26 seconds, 2023. Documentation by Kaye Manners.
Tamara Tallent, Post News, audio video montage on single digital screen, 5 minutes 8 seconds , 2022..
Tamara Tallent, Projections, audio-visual montage on single digital screen, 4 minutes 56 secs, 2022.
Installation view of Mythistórima Series
biro, ink, pencil on paper and audio-visual montage on digital screen,
timber, paint and headphones, 2022.
Documentation by Kenneth Suico.
Heroine, Winter, Triton
biro and pencil on paper 19 x 12.5 cm, 2022
Documentation by Kenneth Suico.
Still of Projections
audio-visual montage, timber, paint, 2022
Still of Post News
audio-visual montage, timber, paint 2022
Waiting
ink on paper, 2010
Embrace
etching, ink, pencil on paper, 2010
Self Portrait
oil on canvas, 2013
Untitled
ink on paper, 2000
Winter
Etching on cotton paper, 2022
The Beguiling Daphne of Daphne
2022
biro, ink, pencil on paper
About
Tamara Tallent is a contemporary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is thematically diverse as are the mediums she uses. Her desire to create art comes from a need to express meaning in past events and experiences. Whilst exploring the nature of strong emotion, she remains devoted to aesthetics, always aiming for a sense of beauty.
She is currently working on a series of surrealist works on paper, installations and video art, which draw upon fables and film noir to create a personal mythology. Fairytales, nursery rhymes and fictional tales are also used as allegories to current Australian sociopolitical issues.
"I reimagine intense moments from the past, through film noir, mythology and the fairy-tales that saturated my childhood. By re-staging these scenes, memories become distorted, shifting the perspective between fiction and reality.
Working with etching, ink, biro, puppetry and film montage, I assemble new narratives with strong light and shade, alluding to a theatrical sense of drama, comedy and fantasy. Mother, lover, romantic, rebel and heroine are players in an autobiographical reel. Juxtaposing characters from popular culture with real life events, I explore the tension between these influences and defining one’s own identity."
When not creating art, Tamara teaches puppetry, ceramics, and art, to adults living with a disability
or mental illness. Connections made through collaborative community projects and teaching
are essential components of her ethos and art practice alike.
Education
Graduate Certificate in Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (Interior Design)
RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Web Site Design & Authoring RMIT
Puppet Manipulation
Polyglot Puppet Theatre
Art, Design & Photography
Brighton Bay Program at Elwood College
Bayside Gallery 2019
Local Artists Group Exhibition
VCA Artspace 2022
Group Exhibition
Track Gallery 2021
Group Exhibition
Artist Residency & Exhibitions
Artspace Gallery
GCVA Group Exhibition
Victorian College of the Arts
Melbourne University 2022
Blindside Contemporary Art
Online collaboration between George Paton Gallery (Melbourne University) and Ramp Gallery (Wintec School of Media Arts, NZ) 2022
Track Gallery
Group Exhibition January 2021
Monash Council
Bayside City Council – Billilla Historic Mansion
Artist in Residence
Puppetry Workshop Facilitator, 2018-2019
Bayside Local Group Exhibition
Bayside Art Gallery 2019
Oak Hill Gallery
Group Exhibition 2013
LUMA
La Trobe University Art Gallery
Group Exhibition 2012
I respect and thank the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation on whose unceded land I live and work.