Tatjana Este is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, painting, drawing, sculpture and performance.
Este's visual narratives explore themes and issues centred on psychology and complexities of human nature within current cultural, socio-political and personal conditions. Este’s practice is conceptually based and aesthetically driven, often using embodied, labour intensive approaches to her chosen mediums - both traditional and contemporary.
The scope of Este’s work reflects the deep enquiry into her own inner sense of emotion and sensibility, and acts as a cathartic remedy to underlying social and psychological conditions the artist perceives to be at play in spatial and social contexts. The works developed by Este often implicate the viewer as either active participant or by immersing the viewer in large-scale installations. Este recurrently employs a refined, bold and elegant visuality, whilst duality implicit to her work operates on various metaphorical, emotional and conceptual levels to generate complex spaces that consider history, time and psychological states.
Tatjana Este was born in former Yugoslavia and settled in New Zealand in 1994. She has completed a Master of Fine Arts (Hons) at Auckland University, New Zealand in 2005, relocating to Melbourne, Australia in 2008. Este has exhibited in Australia and internationally including Serbia, New Zealand and Italy. She has undertaken 16 solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions, awards and residences. Recent exhibitions include: Monumento, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne (2023); Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award finalist exhibition, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW (2022); The Gathering (Contained), Assembly Point, Melbourne (2020); Unfold, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne (2019); Blueming II, a major installation commissioned for the Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat (2018); Bound, Gallery Reflektor, Centre for Visual Arts, Serbia (2017). Este’s work is held in private and public collections throughout the world.
