Tai Snaith
With a pervasive playfulness and sense of absurd humour, Tai Snaith works across many materials and within widely varying sites and contexts including collage, drawing, painting, performance, installation and publishing. Her practice is often personal, collaborative and experimental and frequently includes imagery of animals and humans derived from her childhood memories and faded cultural signifiers or relics. Born in 1980 in Australia, Snaith holds a BFA (Hons) from the Victorian College of the Arts.
In addition to practicing as an artist, she is a curator, producer and writer. Tai has shown extensively both in Australia and overseas; written for Art & Australia, Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Yen and Un magazine; is a visual arts reviewer on TripleR radio; and worked as a producer for the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne Emerging writers festival. Tai has been awarded the Australia Council Tokyo studio and last year has been shortlisted for the Hutchins Art Prize and the Manning Prize and awarded the Banyule works on paper prize.