Ones to Watch: Tamara Pavlovic

Outstanding artists to have on your radar right now. Charlotte Middleton writes.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Tamara Pavlovic is a multidisciplinary artist now based in Sydney, whose practice explores female identity and the female form. The artist employs a wide range of media including painting, mixed media, and recently, video performance, to deconstruct and reconstruct bodies in playful and provocative ways. The hybrid and morphed figures that populate Pavlovic’s works reflect her interest in surrealism and psychology, hinting at the inner workings of the human mind, memories, and the unconscious. The intimacy of the artist’s subject matter is reflected in the small scale of most of her works, where the eye is guided across the paper by the flow of watercolour. Pavlovic’s practice has gained momentum since she graduated with a Master of Art at the University of New South Wales Art & Design in 2019, and she won the Works on Paper Prize in 2020 at Blackstone Gallery in Newcastle, where she is having a solo exhibition in February 2022. Other recent accolades include being named a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award and Hunters Hill Art Prize.

Featured image: Tamara Pavlovic, If these wall could talk, 2021. Mixed media on 300gsm Fabriano paper, framed, 71 x 92cm. Courtesy: the artist.

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