Tara Marynowsky’s painterly interventions on vintage postcards and subtly rendered watercolours explore the raw power of the feminine. She knows that nostalgia for a perfectly contained female energy exists alongside the historical transformation of women’s self-identity, and she looks to bring poetic truth to light. Her process-oriented sensibility balances emotive intensity with delicate line, form and colour, and imbues the fragile figures of men and women, animals, ghostly apparitions and masked players inhabiting her work with an otherworldly honesty – connecting a strangely familiar past with an unsettling present.
Provocative and direct, confronting and comforting, Marynowsky’s ability to enter the viewer into an intimate relationship with the fragility and beauty of curiosity, play and subverted politesse forces dialogue with the tropes we use to define ourselves. In her work, cultural stereotypes, mythical archetypes and unspoken longings meet up with the subconscious currents that influence our daily lives.
Tara Marynowsky graduated from the University of New South Wales School of Art and Design (Honours) in 2002 where she studied Time Based Arts and is currently the Senior Curator of Content and Interpretation at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Recent exhibitions include solo shows as well as the group show Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries at Macquarie University. Tara was commissioned to create new work for The National 2019: New Australian Art at Carriageworks. In 2015 she received a Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting. Her video works have screened internationally at Filmmuseum Düsseldorf and The Centre Pompidou. Her work is held by Artbank, dLux MediaArts, Goulburn Art Gallery and in private collections. She has been featured in publications including Art Collector, Juxtapoz, Broadsheet and the Sydney Morning Herald.
