Irreversible, 2016, Camilla Tadich
Oil on linen, 35cm x 48cm
Provenance: MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
Camilla Tadich is a Melbourne based painter and sculptor who graduated Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. After surviving the horrific 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, her experiences led her to create haunting pieces dark spaces. Tadich spends time wandering the natural world to capture her nightscapes, the landscapes that transform in the dark and in doing so, reveals the disquieting characteristics of uninhibited nature (1).
Artist Statement
'Growing up in the hills outside Melbourne, as young children, my siblings and I would embark on adventures lasting hours ‘down the creek’, running along misty tracks, building shelters from fallen trees, sourcing water for billy tea, burying cans of food for the next expedition, all the while observing the shadows stretching over the hill into the valley as a cue to return home before ‘it gets dark’. As we wearily trudged home, the small glow of house lights beckoned, though threatened by an immense inky darkness draping itself over, and around us.'