12 JULY - 5 AUGUST
FRONT GALLERY

TARA DENNY
A TON OF GOLD

My name is Tara Denny and I am a sculptor working with bronze, wax and clay to materialise my own personal mythologies. My practice uses feminist methodologies to resist the cultural erasure of women’s work, cementing entropic experiences of love and the bittersweet pull of fantastical realities into objects of great permanence. Evoking long traditions of oral histories passed between women. The archaic materials used in my practice act as tribute to the latent unknowability of feminine experience, suggesting wide rifts of loss and amnesia. Works arrive already broken into fragments and ripe with decay, as though resurfacing from a fallen time to finally encounter the public!s gaze.

Tara Denny is a Melbourne (Naarm) based artist. She graduated in 2022 at the Victorian College of Fine Arts (Honours). Recent solo shows include Platform Arts (Geelong), and Melbourne’s cultural event ‘Open House’ Cathedral Cabinet and George Paton Gallery, 2022. Recent group shows include Blindside, ‘All World Are Flat’- 2021. Greenhouse Melbourne,’Celestial Poetics’. 2023.

Photography: Brianna Speight