Tamara Tallent

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

A loved one morphs into Triton as his car sinks into the sea; Daphne is deceived by Rhett Butler; my mother gets drunk on vodka with Dr. Zhivago.

I reimagine intense moments from my past through film noir, mythology and the fairytales that saturated my childhood. By restaging these scenes, my memories become distorted, shifting the perspective between fiction and fact.

Working with etching, ink, biro, puppetry and film montage, I assemble new narratives with strong light and shade, alluding to a theatrical sense of drama, comedy and fantasy. Mother, lover, romantic, rebel and heroine are players in an autobiographical reel. Juxtaposing characters from popular culture with real life events, I explore the tension between these influences and defining one’s own identity.