Represented by Michael Reid, Sydney + Berlin

www.michaelreid.com.au

Website: www.tamaradean.com.au

Instagram: @tamaradean

ABOUT TAMARA

Tamara Dean is a critically acclaimed photo media artist working in photography, installation and moving image.

Known for exploring the relationship between humans and the environment, Dean often collaborates with large

groups immersing themselves in dramatic natural landscapes. Moving seamlessly between documentary and art

realms, Dean’s beautifully crafted works, at times dreamlike, invite us all to contemplate our place within the natural

world.

“I create symbolically charged works which aim to bridge the separateness that we as humans create in our minds

between ourselves and nature.”

Dean has won numerous awards including, the 2020 Goulburn Art Award, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic

Prize, 2018 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, 2018 Meroogal Women’s Art prize, 2011 Olive

Cotton Award; and 2009 Sydney Life: Art & About.

Solo shows include High Jinks in the Hydrangeas 2021, Endangered 2018 & 2019, In Our Nature 2018, Instinctual 2017,

Force of Nature Ballarat 2017, About Face 2016, Here-and-Now 2015, The Edge 2014, Only Human 2012, This too Shall

Pass 2010, Ritualism and Divine Rites, 2009.

Dean’s experiential installations and use of moving image reflect contemporary photography’s emergent and

expanding fields.

Her work has also featured in the Sydney Contemporary 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015; Pingyao Photography Festival, China

2019, 2018, 2012; Denfair Melbourne 2017, FotoLeggendo Rome 2017, 2013; Auckland Art Fair 2019, 2018,

2016; ‘602’ Art Fair Melbourne 2016; Melbourne Art Fair 2018 & 2014; Hampton Art Fair NY 2014; Delhi Photo Festival

India 2013 ; Fotofever Brussels Art Fair 2012.

Dean was a selected artist for the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art with her photographic series In Our Nature

and Stream of Consciousness (SOC) installation and was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts grant to

assist in the creation of her SOC installation.

Her work is held in notable collections including the National Gallery of Australia Collection, Canberra ACT;

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra ACT, Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank, The Mordant

Family Collection, Neil Balnaves Collection, Francis J. Greenburger Collection NYC, Tweed River Gallery, Gold Coast

City Art Gallery, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Newcastle Art Gallery.

Dean was a member of the Australian photographic collective ‘Oculi’ from 2001-2011; Sydney Morning Herald staff

photographer 2001 – 2014; and was represented in Europe by Agence Vu, Paris for over a decade.

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