A contemporary artist based in Wanaka New Zealand with her family. Tash’s earlier education was around the arts, with particular attention to painting and photography. Later education in 2001 attending the Bachelor of Fine Arts course in Dunedin. A young solo mother at the time with a young child led to a career change into business education and ownership to be able to provide for a growing family.
Many years in business pass and the creative calling was always present, a return to the art world in 2013 Tash created Workshop 74 a collaborative art space with an art friend, this was the first introduction to start making art again in a creative environment.
In search to create something unique Tash quickly discovered a rare medium using real animal skulls that evolved into treasured natural sculptures adorned with rhinestones and intricate detailed works. This led to an exhibit that has remained on display at the Famous Cardrona Distillery nestled in the historic Cardrona Valley. Exhibiting in this space has gained a lot of interest from global visitors to the area and led to artworks being shipped to many corners of the globe.
Heart Speak- Worldwide
In 2017 an organization called Heart Speak project reached out and led to several artworks being donated to Heart Speak Worldwide to help raise funds for under privileged youths. A skull piece was sold at the Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite Foundation Event.
Art Cell
In December 2017 a rare pop-up exhibition called Art Cell was created with a group of ten Artists. The exhibition was created in the retired local police station prior to its demolition. A few skull artworks and a taxidermy flamingo were part of Tash’s collection for this endeavor.
Running a large day to day business has not provided a lot of time for making art. The last couple of years Tash has made a priority of time invested to her creative journey. She has the desire to push her artwork further to be seen. The last few years Tash has been creating her new body of work on panels and canvas, still using rhinestones in some of her work, this new collection takes us on a journey through – A Universe of Symbolism. This collection has not yet been seen in public, it is nearing the final stages to reveal this latest collection soon.