Tamara Marrington

Tamara Marrington is an artist based in Boorloo (Perth). She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (2018). Tamara was awarded the Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship (2017), and was a finalist in Majlis Travelling Scholarship (2018). Since graduating, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, and in 2021 undertook a six week residency at Fremantle Arts Centre. Most recently, Tamara was featured in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual Salon Vernissage exhibition, and presented her solo show, Beamers, at Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space. Tamara’s practice pursues the unknowable through an abstract language of hazy symbols, fragments, scrawls, and disjointed letters. At the heart of Tamara’s process is an attentiveness to the meaningful coincidences encountered through painting. These revelations are felt through acts of covering and building upon the surface of the canvas. As such, each work is like a palimpsest. Swirling and scumbling brushwork hold allusions to the lived world, celestial bodies and language where meaning is able to be briefly held before dissolving once more.