Tamara Perrett’s (She/Her) artistic practice explores how self-reflexive eroticism and sexual exploration through art can be a gesture of feminine empowerment and notes the faculty of bodily decadence. She is a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance.

Tamara’s work interrogates the complexities of sex, sexuality, identity and pleasure by prescribing a ‘normalising’ to these notions. Through presenting her work in the context of art, she is in turn assigning value and cultural significance to the themes within her practice.

Drawing inspiration from the female nude in Western art history, Tamara situates her art through a lens that opposes and emancipates the works from a hetro-patriarchal Male Gaze. She considers her practice sitting somewhere between a Female and Queer Gaze, that allows her to create a space for autonomy, identity and desirability to flourish and be uninhibited.

Tamara’s intends to exemplify a sense of exploration, comfortability and empowerment of feminine sexuality and desires.