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| My art practice spans across many mediums including painting, primarily
watercolour, gouache and acrylic, ceramics, zines, and printmaking. I have
recently been working to consolidate my ceramics and painting practices,
creating pieces that use a hybrid of techniques from both fields. I'm
fascinated by biology, which I also study, and in my art practice investigate
the inherent queerness of nature as it resists categorisation, creating
speculative organisms that embody this concept. My works also examine
the dissolution of binaries, and understanding my own relationship to
society as an ace queer nonbinary person. I am a lover of all things creepy
crawly and am greatly inspired by insect moulting processes,
metamorphosis, and instars as a metaphor for queer self discovery. In my
latest works I have been exploring sapphic representation in science fiction
and fantasy media and its queer potential. As well as working with the genderqueer community to share and archive experiences of gender
euphoria and trans joy, a collaborative process I would like to do more of in
the future. @star_tash |
| Knowing, Forgetting, Remembering Tash Brobyn, Knowing, Forgetting, Remembering, 2024, acrylic and gouache on wood, watercolour and gouache on cotton paper, gouache on cotton paper, earthenware, 34 x 25cm, 35 x 26.5 cm, 28.5 x 32.5cm Knowing, Forgetting, Remembering, is a triptych of acrylic and gouache paintings with accompanying ceramic frames. Moving from left to right the works examine the changing relationship with self and queerness from childhood to adulthood. I was interested in the idea of understanding your own wants as a young child and the processes of learning and unlearning that are undertaken when growing up in a cisheteronormative society. Imagery within each of the paintings consists of real and speculative organisms that reflect ideas of undifferentiated growth, dormancy and self preservation, and moulting and connectivity. The ceramic frames also reflect this progression, with the first frame being inspired by slime moulds, the second insect pupae, and the third a community and deep sea worms. |