EXHIBITION 13th - 25th NOVEMBER 2023

Tara John’s transition from a commercial photographer to art photographer and painter and her experience living and working in Sydney’s diverse and industrial inner west, is reflected in her work, which boldly projects the natural into the urban, man-made world.

With a heightened perception of the sensory, drawn from her own journey through illness, Tara’s works focus on light, colour and texture, creating illusions of depth and dimension and layering, blending and distorting shape. She reveals our environment in fresh and unexpected ways.

Her work is influenced by the ideas and work of Henri Lefebre in rhythmanalysis where rhythms in our everyday life, in our movements through space and our interactions with objects in space are explored.

“The rhythmanalysist is capable of listening to a house, a street, a town as one listens to a symphony, an opera.” 

Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis

She is inspired by the work of James Turrell and his interest in human perception. And Fred Williams, who changed the way we see our landscape and environment.

“It is about your seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking into a fire.” James Turrell

Tara’s work has been exhibited as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival having been awarded an inner west council artist grant.

She was a finalist in the Art and About Australian Life exhibition and has exhibited her work in solo shows both in Sydney and Melbourne. Her work has been recognised after she was invited as a guest artist to speak at the NSW Art Gallery.