Cosmos, 2015, Tamara Dean
Archival pigment paint on cotton rag paper, 150cm x 200cm
Provenance: Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney.
Exhibited: Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2017.
Tamara Dean works as a photographer, installation and performance artist. Her pieces explore the ineffable relationship between people and the natural world. Her compositions suggest our connection with nature may be shaped by ritual, but is ultimately intuitive. Her works have been shown around the world, including at the Brussels Art Fair, the Pingyao Photography Festival in China, and the Australian Centre for Photography (1).
Cosmos, part of Dean's Instinctual collection, plays with dwindling daylight, reflecting on the water and nude models who take on a sentient liminality representing both the human footprint and also mirror patterns in nature to explore evolution.