Tamara Elkins
Micro-residency

Tamara Elkins is a multimedia artist who has worked predominantly in the mediums of drawing, printmaking and performance. The use of bodies in environments has been a key aesthetic theme and metaphor in her pieces.
Tamara’s work is currently moving into exploring themes of gender identity, the ambiguity of our sexualities, the intertwining of masculine and feminine and how it manifests in a singular gender. She is also exploring the question “What are we all yearning for?” a concept mentioned by choreographer Pina Baush in the 2011 documentary ‘Pina’, a pivotal influence.

ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist I’ve strived to create work that has some resonance of truth, a lot of it has come from my own personal narrative and plays on the idea that we as human beings instinctively conceal. I’ve always liked the idea though that it wasn’t just about me, that it reached beyond that. I like the idea that we can make connections with the people around us through the telling of shared human experience. I suppose that plays into another big theme in my work, loneliness, my own and others.