Image: Teacosy * 3; Holy Trinity Cosy, 2006/07. Hand embroidery, wallaby hide, jet beads, Japanese silks, wool, cotton, steel frame, paint and Edwardian dress trim
Tara Badcock
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Tasmania |
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Tasmania |
Tara Badcock is a textile artist and designer, currently based in Chudleigh in the Tasmania’s north west. She gained her Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours at the University of Tasmania in 1997. Since this time Badcock has exhibited widely at local and international events and venues.
After completing a number of residencies in and around Paris, Badcock created her design identity Paris + Tasmania. This brand engages with themes of beauty and utility, cultural identity, social and collective memory and personal experience. Her work ranges from home wares - including cushions, elaborate curtains and wall panels, to fashion and accessories. Using a combination of textile manipulation, stitching and hand embroidery techniques, Badcock endeavours to communicate grand and worldly ideas through private and intimate concepts.
In 2006 Badcock received an Arts Tasmania grant that supported her Teacosy* Revolution exhibition and Manifesto. This is an ongoing project, involving the creation of fantastic teacosies for use in performance, sound and installation works, for photography, and as artworks.
