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.

Post News, audio video montage on single digital screen, 5 minutes 10 seconds , 2022..

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

Winter

Etching on cotton paper, 2022

Embrace

etching, ink, pencil on paper, 2010

Man

charcoal, conte, oil pastel, ink, pencil on paper, 2010

The Beguiling Daphne of Daphne

biro, ink, pencil on paper, 2022

Waiting

ink on paper, 2010

Untitled

ink on paper, 2000

Moments

ink on paper, 2000

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.

Self Portrait with Frida & Salvadore

oil on canvas, 2013

Artist Residency & Exhibitions

2024 Ladder Art Space, Distortions, Solo Exhibition

2023 Rubicon ARI, Fabrications, Solo Exhibition

2023 Brunswick Street Gallery, Echoes of a Gaze, Group Exhibition

2022 Artspace Gallery, GCVA Group Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.

2022 Blindside Contemporary Art, Co-ordinate: Into the In-between, online collaboration between George Paton Gallery (Melbourne University) & Ramp Gallery (Wintec School of Media Arts, NZ).

2021 Track Gallery, Interwoven, Group Exhibition, Monash Council.

2018 - 2019 Billilla Artist in Residence & Puppetry Workshop Facilitator, Bayside City Council – Billilla Historic Mansion

2019 Bayside Local Group Exhibition, Bayside Art Gallery

2013 Oak Hill Gallery, Group Exhibition

2012 LUMA, Group Exhibition, La Trobe University Art Gallery

1999 Baragan House, Group Exhibiton of RMIT Interior Design Studio participants, Mexico City, Mexico.

I respect and thank the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation on whose unceded land I live and work.