Born Galinyala/Port Lincoln, SA
Lives & works Tarndanya/Adelaide, SA
Working across sculpture, installation and moving image, Tamara Baillie’s practice is located at the convergence of identity and memory and often plays with concepts of presence and absence. Emerging from explorations of elusive familial and cultural histories, well known works include a series of cartographic installations in sugar-cured muslin and salt-water mark making; evocative landscapes that chart physical and emotional terrains of ‘settlement’ and ‘discovery’.
Tamara has exhibited throughout Australia at Artspace (NSW), National Art School (NSW), Firstdraft (NSW), Incinerator Gallery (Vic), Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Vic), ACE Open (SA), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australian Experimental Art Foundation (SA), South Australian Museum, JamFactory (SA) and Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2019 she was inaugural studio resident at ACE Open, other residencies include the British School in Rome (Rome), FAVELab (Athens) and Artspace (Sydney) and Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Previous roles include Co-Chair of Post Office Projects, Co-Director of FELTspace ARI and founding member of both SA Artists for Climate Action collective and onesixteenth, indigenous visual arts collective.