Biography

The female experience is central theme to my work. I explore notions of psychological and sexual trauma through the depictions of nightmares and memories, and the melding of the fantastical with the mundane.

A technicolour palette naturally develops in my modelling of all things. I embrace it for it's child-like connotations, which juxtopose my more mature themes.

I seat my imagery in the ever more present liminal space contemporary society creates with its conflict of present and absent consciousness contructed by modern technology.

Tamara Wong


Tamara Wong is a figurative artist. Though she works in a range of media to further her understanding of the human form and its grace, it is through painting and sculpture that she channels these insights. Her paintings created from live models, self portraiture and found imagery are expressed through vivid colours and a desire to show the energy of brush strokes and love of the human body.

Tamara has been studying art since childhood with community classes at the National Art gallery and similar facilities. Her Grandmother, a professional oil painter has cultivated a desire to be true to the figure through realism. During her high school years she briefly worked at an animation studio where she met and later became the assistant to the Ottawa based photographer Jef Harris. He became her mentor in the marriage of digital and traditional media.

Having attended the Ottawa School of Art, and graduating from OCAD in 2011, some of the College and University teachers which especially touched her practice include: sculptor Dawn Dale, painter Lucia De Marinis, doctor and medical illustrator Stephen Tulk, portrait painter David Campbell, sculptor George Boileau, sculptor David Pellettier, sculptor Stan Krzyzanowski, sculptor Claude Miceli, artist Natalie Waldburger, creative writer Leanna Mclennan, painter Catherine Beaudette, painter Maria Gabankova, and painter Natalka Husar.


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