Sculptor of poems

A woman with dark hair in a green tank top and black shorts standing against a white wall adorned with ceramic sculptures of lips and abstract shapes. A pegboard with various tools is visible to the right.

Tara’s work immortalises intimacy, a plea for moments to exist beyond the present.

Sculptural poems that inhabit the feral pulse of being - intimacy, sensuality, longing, and the body as a site of becoming. The body is abstracted and fragmented into forms that are simultaneously tender and raw with surfaces marked by cellulite, folds, and soft perfection. Tara’s ceramic sculptures explore how desire, memory, and identity inscribe themselves into flesh.

Clay reliefs and sculptural vessels blur the line between reality and fantasy. Together, they feel like a constellation of bodies orbiting with glory. Individual yet connected, each one holding traces of touch.

Body becomes clay, clay becomes body. A whisper that we are all human, with the instinct for longing, hunger for connection, and the desire for more. Intimacy becomes public, making visible what is often hidden.

After all, we are all living poems.

Upcoming

Affordable Art Fair Melbourne
27–30 August 2026
Presented by Red Gallery
Royal Exhibition Building
9 Nicholson Street, Carlton VIC, Australia

Tara Sao presents Serpentine Impulse, a new collection of ceramic sculptures exploring human impulse and the early whisper of transformation. Snake motifs are used to narrate the raw layers of instinct, held in gentle embrace with the clay body. The sculptures evoke resilience, and the unrelenting human impulse to never stop dreaming, and to always keep yearning for more.

Angelic Hiss

Angelic hiss | Stoneware, glaze | 47 × 29 × 12 cm