Tara Denny

Honours

Working as a sculptor in bronze and clay, I materialise my own personal mythologies. My practice uses feminist methodologies to resist the cultural erasure of women’s work, cementing entropic experiences of love and the bittersweet pull of fantastical realities into objects of great permanence. Evoking long traditions of oral histories passed between women, I like to conceal diaristic scrawl into the work’s surface. The archaic materials used in my practice act as tribute to the latent unknowability of feminine experience, suggesting wide rifts of loss and amnesia. Works arrive broken and in fragments, ripe with decay, as though resurfacing from a fallen time to finally encounter the public’s gaze.