From the series Instinctual 2017,

Capturing the ineffable relationship between humans and the environment is a driving force behind the work of Tamara Dean. Her compositions suggest our connection with nature may be shaped by ritual, but is ultimately intuitive. Being on site, and a rich experience of place is as important as the final tableau. The artist’s verdant photographs play with twilight, reflections on water and nude models who take on a sentient liminality representing both the human footprint and also mirror patterns in nature like fish shoaling, to explore evolution.

“The action of ‘going to’ and experiencing the location and subsequent ritual is as important as the photographic representation at the end. The absence of clothing and natural setting is designed to symbolise a universal sense of humanity, the shoaling nature of the figures representing our instinctual human nature and inherent animalism. An acknowledgment that we are indeed a part of nature.”    – Tamara Dean
Tamara Dean

Juniper (Juniperus) Rushes, 2017

archival pigment print on cotton paper
edition of 8 + 2AP
75 x 100 cm, unframed

$6,800

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From the series Instinctual 2017,

Capturing the ineffable relationship between humans and the environment is a driving force behind the work of Tamara Dean. Her compositions suggest our connection with nature may be shaped by ritual, but is ultimately intuitive. Being on site, and a rich experience of place is as important as the final tableau. The artist’s verdant photographs play with twilight, reflections on water and nude models who take on a sentient liminality representing both the human footprint and also mirror patterns in nature like fish shoaling, to explore evolution.

“The action of ‘going to’ and experiencing the location and subsequent ritual is as important as the photographic representation at the end. The absence of clothing and natural setting is designed to symbolise a universal sense of humanity, the shoaling nature of the figures representing our instinctual human nature and inherent animalism. An acknowledgment that we are indeed a part of nature.”    – Tamara Dean

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