
Tara Keegan
Visual Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
I work across two interrelated and parallel practices that continuously inform one another. With a background in Sculpture, I draw upon my experience as a visual artist, maker, and performer to enrich my participatory work, engaging in collaborative processes that allow projects to evolve organically over time.
In the studio, my practice centres on the organic forms of the body exploring growth, illness, cellular structures, and the female reproductive system. This is not purely theoretical; it is a visceral and intuitive expression of my lived experience, visually and mentally reconstructing the world around me. Through soft sculpture, performance, installation, and sound, I aim to develop a visual language grounded in corporeal awareness one that conveys embodied experience. The act of making becomes an empathetic response, a way to create objects that reflect an internal, felt state.
Materiality is central to my process. I’m attentive to texture, form, and physical presence, but equally compelled by the emotional and relational responses that objects can evoke. Working with found materials and mixed media, my pieces often resemble archaeological fragments, artifacts of personal experience that have been unearthed, reassembled, and reimagined.
While I pay close attention to the physicality and texture of materials, I am equally interested in our emotional and relational responses to the objects themselves. By working with a range of found materials and media, my pieces often take on the quality of archaeological artifacts fragments of lived experience unearthed and reimagined.
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