About

An artist in Naarm, Tara grew up in a culturally rich family as a second generation Australian. The pursuit for perfection was admired and deeply rewarded, as this was needed to survive. With the learnt knack for flawless repetition, Tara’s early craft was custom tableware fuelling the desire for functional art but over time, became hungry for more storytelling and intuitive creation. 

Freeing from the confines of technical mastery, and precision, Tara has since leant into uncertainty and clay became a site of play, one that is tactile and instinctive. Shifting from tableware to sculpture, her work now centres on the exploration of intimacy delving into the dimension between reality and fantasy. The body, and nature are sites of intimate exchange and how the process of clay mirrors this intimacy with hands being a conduit between both internal and external worlds. She investigates the body as a site of paradox, where longing lingers, and stillness echoes.

Sensual, but restrained. Raw, yet intentional. Fragile, and just a bit feral. 

In a world saturated with noise and digital proxies for connection, that insists on flawless execution and replication, Tara’s work resists uniformity and predictability. Through wheel throwing, and hand building, each sculpture narrates the poetic existence of being - one that yearns for more.

Tara has exhibited across Naarm/Melbourne, including a solo exhibition, Anatomical Poems at Red Gallery, alongside group presentations at Sol Gallery and Brunswick Street Gallery. In 2026, she joined Red Gallery at Affordable Art Fair Melbourne with a new collection of ceramic sculpture. Her practice has evolved from functional ceramics and commissioned tableware into a sculptural language centred on the body, intimacy and embodied experience.