TAI SNAITH
Tai Snaith is an artist, author and broadcaster living on unceded Wurundjeri land on the banks of the Merri Creek. Her artwork celebrates the intersection of stories, objects, people and place. How objects like books and vessels can illustrate and preserve the stories of the times we live in as well as the past.
Tai’s recent major commissioned wall work, involving photographed assemblages of her ceramic objects, found objects and open books for the State Library of Victoria was shortlisted in the World Illustration Awards in 2019. Similarly, this way of working has led Tai to collaborate with the Royal Botanic Gardens and their Herbarium collection on a major work launched publicly this year. This current exhibition (Impossible Bouquet) for Heide Museum of Modern Art continues her exploration of how objects can tell a story of place and the people that inhabited it. Made during lockdown, these vessels tell both a story of our current unprecedented times and connect them to the dark domestic history of the Heide cottage. Tai also has a podcast where she speaks with other female identifying artists called ‘A World Of One’s Own.’ Originally commissioned by ACCA, there are now 3 seasons to date.
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Photographs: Clytie Meredith, Bri Hammond & Matthew Stanton
