Undulations
Artist
Grant-Iramu, Tamika
Production date
2022
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Object Detail
Title
Undulations
Production date
2022
Medium
vinyl-cut and watercolour on 300gsm Hahnemühle paper
Measurements
paper: 50.5 x 144 cm; image: 37.5 x 134 cm
Object type
Edition
1/10 + 2AP
Interpretive text
Tamika Grant-Iramu is an emerging printmaker with Torres Strait Islander (TSI), Papua New Guinean and European heritage. Exploring these facets of her identity, Iramu-Grant works in a mostly monochromatic palette using the carving techniques and storytelling aesthetic that she feels reconnects her to her TSI and Paupa New Guinean cultures. Grant-Iramu's practice looks to her immediate natural environment, focusing on small details she observes, reimagined as distinct floral motif. For the artist, “the relationship she has with the process of carving corresponds to the strength and fluidity of her natural environment, the constant randomness that arises from the direction in which she carves allows newly discovered forms to grow” (Grant-Iramu, 2021.)
Undulations depicts native and introduced Queensland flora, highlighting Lemon Myrtle from Meajin/ Brisbane alongside the Mount Blackwood Holly, a native unique to the Mackay region. Titled for the artist’s imagined impression of the changing relief in the landscape between her Brisbane home and the Mackay region, Grant-Iramu has used flowing lines and organic shapes throughout this work. This two panel relief print is a to-scale design of the 17m painted mural the artist created in residency at Artspace Mackay in April 2022.
Artspace Mackay 2022
Undulations depicts native and introduced Queensland flora, highlighting Lemon Myrtle from Meajin/ Brisbane alongside the Mount Blackwood Holly, a native unique to the Mackay region. Titled for the artist’s imagined impression of the changing relief in the landscape between her Brisbane home and the Mackay region, Grant-Iramu has used flowing lines and organic shapes throughout this work. This two panel relief print is a to-scale design of the 17m painted mural the artist created in residency at Artspace Mackay in April 2022.
Artspace Mackay 2022
Accession number
2022.1
