Affordable Art Fair Melbourne
Presented by Red Gallery
27 August - 30 August 2026

Tara Sao presents a new collection of ceramic sculptures exploring human impulse, using clay to mirror the unraveling of being.

Snake motifs are used to narrate the raw layers of instinct, while the clay body surfaces vulnerability, and holds the fragility of becoming. The sculptures evoke resilience, and the unrelenting human impulse to never stop dreaming, and to always keep yearning for more.

A person with long dark hair and tattoos on their left hand is shaping large white balloons with their hands, with a plain white wall in the background.
Person working on a clay sculpture, shaping with a small sculpting tool, in a minimalistic studio with white walls.
Lovedrunk | Stoneware, glaze | 34 x 33 x 27 cm

Lovedrunk | Stoneware, glaze | 34 x 33 x 27 cm

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Lovesick | Stoneware, glaze | 27 x 26 x 25 cm

Lovesick | Stoneware, glaze | 27 x 26 x 25 cm

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Lovestruck | Stoneware, glaze | 28 x 27 x 25 cm

Lovestruck | Stoneware, glaze | 28 x 27 x 25 cm

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

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

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Femme feral | Stoneware, glaze | 36 x 26 x 10 cm

Femme feral | Stoneware, glaze | 36 x 26 x 10 cm

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Fierce whisper | Stoneware, glaze | 37 x 27 x 10 cm

Fierce whisper | Stoneware, glaze | 37 x 27 x 10 cm

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Lure | Stoneware, glaze | 42 x 24 x 10cm

Lure | Stoneware, glaze | 42 x 24 x 10cm

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Soft sin | Stoneware, glaze | 45 x 34 x 7 cm

Soft sin | Stoneware, glaze | 45 x 34 x 7 cm

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Sweet venom | Stoneware, glaze | 32 x 22 x 7 cm

Sweet venom | Stoneware, glaze | 32 x 22 x 7 cm

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Tender spell | Stoneware, glaze | 37 x 25 x 8 cm

Tender spell | Stoneware, glaze | 37 x 25 x 8 cm

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Unfurling stillness | Stoneware, glaze | 40 x 26 x 10 cm

Unfurling stillness | Stoneware, glaze | 40 x 26 x 10 cm

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Untamed grace | Stoneware, glaze | 28 x 26 x 8 cm

Untamed grace | Stoneware, glaze | 28 x 26 x 8 cm

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Fever dream | Stoneware, glaze | 43 x 27 x 11 cm

Fever dream | Stoneware, glaze | 43 x 27 x 11 cm

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A woman with long dark hair is reaching for an object on a table, with a busy corkboard filled with papers and photos in the background.