Taryn Raffan is a contemporary artist who documents, delivers and exhibits her work through a variety of mediums including drawing, print, sculpture, assemblage and installation. Raffan tends more towards the conceptual, transient and unpredictable methods of making, often collaging and assembling elements of her work together to enhance the subject and materials dialogue. Raffan’s work tinkers with notions of isolation, comfort and seemingly inanimate objects, often utilising found materials and working in specific locales. Raffan’s work offers as a congruent between what is seen as a stark globalised reality and what is fantasised within ones own societal idea of attachment, belief, nature and spirituality.
Connecting, sharing and collaborating with others is as fundamental to her practice as is a inquiry of place. Currently working towards a solo exhibition on Gadigal/Wangal Country / Marrickville, Sydney; she also maintains ongoing creative connections with fellow artists and friends Michelle Heldon/the-parcel, Rachael Ireland and Ruth Feeney.
Raffan has exhibited and participated in residencies in Australia, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and the Netherlands. Her work belongs in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Having grown up on Eora and Kuring-gai Country / Sydney and Central Coast, NSW; she is currently based on Yuggera Country / Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
I acknowledge the Turrbal People as the Traditional Owners of the land I live and work on and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of lands and waters all across Australia and recognise that Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded.