VCA ART 2021

Tara Denny

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)

One walked around such pointless paths.
Picking the white flowers from my tobacco garden.
The last of the golden trumpets well, they had dropped to the ground in between the blue stone cracks.
Pointless paths.
Surley it had some point, a lesson to be told.
Between my Dakota. My friend.
A path in my past.
Unable to read time in any way. Watching the hand pass over the flower bed.
walk on. Ignite the fire.
Go on tapping a fraction too loudly.
Heel tapping
She whispers.
trapped in cobwebs.
In a veil of cobwebs.
trapped in cobwebs.

Tara Denny, City Of Faces, Ceramic and silk, oil prints with natural dye, 2021. Documentation by Claire Lambe.
Tara Denny, City of Faces, Ceramic and silk, oil prints with natural dye, 2021.
Tara Denny, City of Faces-ruby red lips, Ceramic, lingerie, leather, copper, silk, 2021.
Tara Denny, The god mother, Ceramic head and ceramic child charm, dressed in silk rags, dyed, 2021.
Tara Denny, Twiggy snood, Leather sleeve, ceramic head, wig, 2021.
Tara Denny, pigeon heck, Bronze, 2021.
Tara Denny, Label M., Ceramic, combs, lingerie, leather, ribbons, 2021.
Tara Denny, City of Faces, Ceramic and assortment of leather, silk, dyed fabric, 2021.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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