Tara Badcock
Tara Badcock is a visual and conceptual artist based in northern Tasmania who graduated from the University of Tasmania at Hobart with a postgraduate degree in fine art. After spending many years living in cities pursuing a creative career, Tara spent a three-year stint in Paris, which was a textile-fuelled, life-altering experience. Tara has spent the past 12 years raising children and endeavouring to maintain a creative career in textile art and
as well as exploring sculpture and installation. Tara has recently returned to live on the family farm with her children as a single parent to be able to focus on building a more symbiotic and restorative existence of art, gardening and self-sufficiency skills.
“It’s been a few rough, heart-wrenching and raw years to reach this point of a now beautiful, peaceful calm, and it tastes delicious…I jokingly refer to it all as returning to my default factory settings. If I were French I might say I’m reconnecting with my terroir.”
“I have a passion for collecting antique hats. I feel the most like ‘me’ when I’m wearing one of my Edwardian beauties skewered to my hair with a lethal-looking hat pin or two, complete with feathers and lace or a trailing chiffon scarf.”
“I’m a passionate collector of antique and vintage textiles, mainly because they still seem to contain the human touch of their maker and/or wearer. The many hands that go into transforming and adorning cloth are what interest me most, alongside the layering of usage, wear and repair.”
