| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Visual Artist |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Tara Bursey is an artist whose practice encompasses sculpture and installation as well as drawing, craft, and self-publishing. Her conceptual work can be characterized by its labour intensive, inventive use of materials such as paper and food. In the past few years, she has exhibited extensively throughout Toronto in a diverse range of venues, from storefront window installations, tattoo shops and telephone poles to the Textile Museum of Canada, the Ontario Crafts Council, as well as in group exhibitions and artist projects in Halifax, Saskatoon, Montreal, Berlin and Copenhagen. Tara’s most recent projects include coordinating The Portable Library Project and installation/exhibition programming for City of Craft, a contemporary craft event that takes place in Toronto. She began studies towards a degree in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University in September of 2009. |
