Bio
Tamara Burlando is a multidisciplinary visual artist.
Her work embraces multicultural integration, creating nets and relationships that support co-existence, mutual learning, and respectful exchanges.
Her works oscillate from photographs printed in delicate tea bag patchworks, wool installations within the trees' branches, and multiple coloured stitched soft sculptures to create a conversation between 2 cultures, collaborations with other women artists, and the performance of her intuitive ceremonies of identity and belonging.
Tamara explores art as a tool of discovery and healing, a path to reconnect with the land and remember untold stories. Also as a quest for ancient knowledge.
Tamara was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Abya Yala from a mix-heritage (Uruguayan, Huarpe, European).
She has a specialization in Sculpture (Massana School of Applied Arts, Barcelona, Spain) & Photography (IEFC, Barcelona, Spain), and she is currently undertaking a Post-grad Certificate in Creative Therapies with Indigenous perspectives, at Darwin University, Australia.
Tamara Burlando is a multidisciplinary visual artist.
Her work embraces multicultural integration, creating nets and relationships that support co-existence, mutual learning, and respectful exchanges.
Her works oscillate from photographs printed in delicate tea bag patchworks, wool installations within the trees' branches, and multiple coloured stitched soft sculptures to create a conversation between 2 cultures, collaborations with other women artists, and the performance of her intuitive ceremonies of identity and belonging.
Tamara explores art as a tool of discovery and healing, a path to reconnect with the land and remember untold stories. Also as a quest for ancient knowledge.
Tamara was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Abya Yala from a mix-heritage (Uruguayan, Huarpe, European).
She has a specialization in Sculpture (Massana School of Applied Arts, Barcelona, Spain) & Photography (IEFC, Barcelona, Spain), and she is currently undertaking a Post-grad Certificate in Creative Therapies with Indigenous perspectives, at Darwin University, Australia.
CV_TAMARA BURLANDO
b.1975, Argentina/Huarpe Nation, lives and works on Arrernte Country/Mparntwe, Australia.
EDUCATION / TRAINING
2021 Creative Therapies with Indigenous perspectives Student, Postgraduate diploma. Charles Darwin University.
2011/ 2006 Textile studies, various courses, various countries.
2005 Arts Diploma in Photography from I.E.F.C. Barcelona, Spain.
2001 Postgraduate Residence Program; Off-Massana Postgraduate Grant Program, Massana School of Applied Arts. Pueblo Español, Barcelona.
2000 Specialisation in Sculpture, Massana School of Applied Arts, Barcelona, Spain.
1999 / 1988 Foundation studies (Bachelor of Arts), Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Prilidiano Pueyrredon (National School of Fine Arts. I.U.N.A). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 “What we have always been” Gachi Prieto Gallery. Buenos Aires Argentina.
2007 "Interior Landscapes" & "Photo Interventions", Del Paseo Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2006 “Interior Landscapes", Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ipswich Art Gallery – 4 October 2025 to 30 November 2025
2025 Grafton Regional Gallery - 26 July 2025 to 14 September 2025
2025 Glasshouse Port Macquarie - 19 April 2025 to 12 July 2025
2025 Manly Art Gallery & Museum - 21 February 2025 – 6 April 2025
2024 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery – 23 November 2024 to 31 January 2025
2024 Mildura Arts Centre – 16 August 2024 to 13 October 2024
2024 Broken Hill City Art Gallery - 24 May 2024 to 4 August 2024
2024 JamFactory, Adelaide - 2 March 2024 to 12 May 2024
2023 "B+ Atarraya", Jose &Tamara Burlando, Galeria del Paseo, Manantiales, Uruguay.
2023 "Meet me by the River", Paula DoPrado&Tamara Buraldno, “Relationality and residues of change” 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial
2023 "Ellas 4.0 Ancestras", CAMPO creative Institute, Garzon, Uruguay.
2022 “Place of not knowing” Collaboration with Pattie Beerens, Australian Ceramics Triennale.
2022 Rimer Cardillo, Tamara Burlando, Andrea Gelsi. Lilia Muniz Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2020 “Grounding Sound” Collaborative project for Elliat Rich, Watch this space, Mparntwe.
2016 “Smiles of bush” Installation as part of “Unbroken Land” InciteArts. Desert Park, Alice Springs, Australia.
2015 “What we have always been”, Alice Springs Festival & Artist Talk,The Residency, Alice Springs, Australia.
2015 “Home”, sound installation, Collaborative piece with Kirsty Robertson, Anna Satharasenghe. The Residency, Alice Springs, Australia.
2015 “Portraits of Alice Springs”, Alice Springs Festival, Alice Springs, Australia.
2014 “Lo que siempre hemos sido”Roberto Riverti Foto Galeria, Punta del Este Uruguay.
2014 “Papunya Smiles”, Book launch and exhibition, The Residency, Alice Springs, Australia.2014 Roberto Riverti Foto Galeria, Punta del Este Uruguay.
2013 "La mujer y la Fotografía" Roberto Riverti Foto Galeria, Punta del Este Uruguay.2012 Roberto Riverti Foto Galeria, Punta del Este Uruguay.
2012 A fine line, Where Craft meets Art and Design. Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, Australia.
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2012 Alice Springs Wearable Arts Award. 2nd prize master class.
2012 Alice Springs Wearable Arts Award.2nd price recyclable category.
2011 Alice Springs Wearable Arts Award. 1st prize, natural fibres.
2008 Northern Territory Government Arts Grant recipient. Felt-Making Workshop Program for the women and children of Mutitjulu Community (Uluru, Central Australia).
2005 Emerging Photographer Pro40. 1st prize, student category. Barcelona, Spain.
EMPLOYMENT
2023/22 Creative Therapist. Kentish Lifelong learning and care.
2023/22 Creative process facilitator. Mhaca (Mental Health Association. Central Australia)
2022/21 Ceramics teacher. Jardin Pottery Space.
2021 Weaving and Wellbeing workshops. Yirara College & Kentish Lifelong learning and care.
2021/19 Early Years/Arts and craft Educator. Children’s Ground, NT, Australia.
2019/13 Special Textile Projects/ Studio Mentor. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Alice Springs.
2019 Creativity Boost program facilitator. Central Craft, Alice Springs.
2018/1017 Workshop facilitator (weaving and cyanotype techniques). Gabriela Horbat studio, Misuki & Nido studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Special Weaving techniques Guest Lecturer. Andrea Saltzman. Textile Design Studies Faculty of Buenos Aires University. Argentina.
2012/2010 Artists assistant. Papunya Tjupi Arts, Papunya Community, NT, Australia.
2007/2008 Photography Lecturer. Andrea Saltzman, Textile Design Studies Faculty of Buenos Aires University. Argentina.
