Tai Snaith

Program

KIDS: Conversation Collage with Tai Snaith

Join exhibiting Unfinished Business artist Tai Snaith to create a collage artwork based on conversations. Participants will unpack the idea of building their own identity and the fluid nature of re-arranging or assembling one’s self. This workshop is for children...
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Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own

With a nod to Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ from 1929, artist Tai Snaith has conducted With a nod to Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ from 1929, artist Tai Snaith has conducted With a nod to Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ from 1929, artist Tai Snaith has conducted With […]...
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A World of One’s Own: The Same Sky with Lucreccia Quintanilla

How can we make Culture rather than Art? Is the sky a black velvet blanket? Tai Snaith's podcast series returns with 13 more conversations with mid-career and emerging women and non-binary artists whom she admires. In episode one, Tai and Lucreccia Quintanilla discuss how having a punk attitude...
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A World of One’s Own: The Same Sky with Lucreccia Quintanilla

How can we make Culture rather than Art? Is the sky a black velvet blanket? Tai Snaith's podcast series returns with 13 more conversations with mid-career and emerging women and non-binary artists whom she admires. In episode one, Tai and Lucreccia Quintanilla discuss how having a punk attitude...
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A World of One’s Own: The Empathy Highway with Archie Barry

How can we share an experience without using words? What is it like to feel the push and pull of presence and hiding? Tai Snaith and Archie Barry chat honestly about what role identity plays in Archie’s practice and how they are interested in expressing that identity in a non-visual way...
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A World of One’s Own: Pansies, Moons and Chameleon Words with Laura Skerlj

Is a painting like a poem? How do we make our own rules when we are painting? In this conversation Tai Snaith and Laura Skerlj discuss their migrant roots in Australia and how this affects the ethics of how they live and work. Laura shares her secret practice of writing ‘tragic poems’ and how...
Exhibition

Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism

Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]

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A World of One’s Own: Invisible Forces of Powerful Women with Sanné Mestrom

Can we maintain a lightness of being using heavy materials? What is the role of a public artist and how is this changing? In this spirited conversation, Tai Snaith and Sanné Mestrom discuss what it means to be a self-made woman interested in the relationship between the lived world...
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A World of One’s Own: Invisible Forces of Powerful Women with Sanné Mestrom

Can we maintain a lightness of being using heavy materials? What is the role of a public artist and how is this changing? In this spirited conversation, Tai Snaith and Sanné Mestrom discuss what it means to be a self-made woman interested in the relationship between the lived world...
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A World of One’s Own: Agatha in Puzzling World with Agatha Gothe-Snape

What is Conceptual Art? How can we do away with Visual Litter? Tai Snaith and Agatha Gothe-Snape talk about the practice of deep thinking and the process of taking ideas apart. They discuss the fine balance of keeping all the parts of the ‘plait’ of one’s life even and neatly braided, and what...
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A World of One’s Own: Agatha in Puzzling World with Agatha Gothe-Snape

What is Conceptual Art? How can we do away with Visual Litter? Tai Snaith and Agatha Gothe-Snape talk about the practice of deep thinking and the process of taking ideas apart. They discuss the fine balance of keeping all the parts of the ‘plait’ of one’s life even and neatly braided, and what...
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A World of One’s Own: Spatial Memories with Esther Stewart

How might an artwork be part of the language of interiors or functional design? How important is understanding scale and process? Tai Snaith and Esther Stewart go deep into process during this conversation. They discuss Esther’s studio process and what it means to adopt a more design-based...
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A World of One’s Own: Spatial Memories with Esther Stewart

How might an artwork be part of the language of interiors or functional design? How important is understanding scale and process? Tai Snaith and Esther Stewart go deep into process during this conversation. They discuss Esther’s studio process and what it means to adopt a more design-based...
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A World of One’s Own: Lace Borders and Honey Highways with Stanislava Pinchuk

How can we make traces of suffering into visual poetry? How do we map emotional data? Tai Snaith and Stanislava Pinchuk talk about the different ways we can make our art practice meaningful to our lives, and the lives of others. They discuss how Stan has managed to include travel, meeting people...
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A World of One’s Own: Stories of Fearless Women with Paola Balla

How can mockery and humour be used as a tool for survival? How do you write yourself into a history that has always favoured men? In this conversation Tai Snaith and Paola Balla go on a raucous storytelling romp through Paola’s vibrant past, recounting her ‘triple-whammy of Otherness’ as a young...
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A World of One’s Own: Stories of Fearless Women with Paola Balla

How can mockery and humour be used as a tool for survival? How do you write yourself into a history that has always favoured men? In this conversation Tai Snaith and Paola Balla go on a raucous storytelling romp through Paola’s vibrant past, recounting her ‘triple-whammy of Otherness’ as a young...
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A World of One’s Own: Megan Cope

How important is it to connect with a place that is part of your history? What are your responsibilities to make work for ‘your people’ as well as an art audience? Tai Snaith and Megan Cope discuss what it means to move back to work ‘on country’ as a contemporary Indigenous artist. They unpack...
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A World of One’s Own: Megan Cope

How important is it to connect with a place that is part of your history? What are your responsibilities to make work for ‘your people’ as well as an art audience? Tai Snaith and Megan Cope discuss what it means to move back to work ‘on country’ as a contemporary Indigenous artist. They unpack...
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A World of One’s Own: Portrait of a Bright Future with Atong Atem

How important is it to make yourself and others visible? What can a photograph achieve, and what is the power of the photographer? Tai Snaith and Atong Atem discuss all the different aspects of Atong’s identity and how making sense of them informs her artwork. Atong explains what it is like...
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A World of One’s Own: Portrait of a Bright Future with Atong Atem

How important is it to make yourself and others visible? What can a photograph achieve, and what is the power of the photographer? Tai Snaith and Atong Atem discuss all the different aspects of Atong’s identity and how making sense of them informs her artwork. Atong explains what it is like...
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A World of One’s Own: Kate Just

What does it mean to make artwork with a social consciousness? How do we represent our politics through what we wear? Tai Snaith and Kate Just discuss the way that clothes, like skin, can carry a multitude of meanings, stories and histories to make up who we are. Kate talks about using other...