About
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Tamara Saunders (2001, Hong Kong) lives and works in Bournemouth. She uses a variety of materials to correlate and express her past and hobbies in her artworks as she utilizes her childhood of never sticking to one place or country to spark inspiration. For instance, creating works and pieces relating to memory or relations with her different cultures. Her favourite mediums to use are acrylic paints and chalk. With these materials, Tamara explores the different ways to apply them onto canvas or paper, for example, using her hands to create some of her paintings rather than just with brushes. However, recently she has been experimenting with sculpting, using chicken wire and clay to form figures and different fantastical features related to her last exhibition. Last year, Tamara worked on a collaborative project at Arts University Bournemouth to create sculptures to turn the town's lower gardens golf course into a crazy golf course. Where she created three large pieces: a book of her own design, a dragon to entice kids to her golf hole, and a wooden painted castle to cause excitement with a nostalgic similarity to the Disney castle. As with this project she picked up new skills in woodwork and sculpture-making with plaster and jessamine, which Tamara hopes to keep exploring as she moves on to her next project. In her current work, Tamara dives into her dragon sculptures' origin and sought to delve deeper into fairytales and mythology, playing around with different combinations of animals to create her own hybrids. From drawing them together with colour pencils or pastels. To painting the animals fully and then ripping apart the pieces and collaging them together. With this, she hopes to discover and reveal the animal's hierarchy in our world not just in the creative industry of films, games and books, but how we lack to treat them with respect as we utilize them for pets, food and resources. As Tamara expands on her interests in fantasy, she hopes to continue creating artwork on more difficult themes in the future.