Tamara Van San

Through the use of clay, ceramic, plaster, wood, polystyrene and latex, among others, Tamara Van San creates sculptures that celebrate shape, volume and colour. Her small and large-scaled, indoors and outdoors works appear in bright, unexpected shapes, dominated by circles and ovals, with splashes of colour following their outlines. Deeply experimental and unique, Van San’s practice is described as ‘anti-classical’ in its refusal to adhere to the tradition of unity, beauty and purity. Instead, her process is intuitive and intimate, allowing the materiality and the form of her works to, in the artist’s words, “resolve themselves through the process of their own making”. As a result, her sculptures are an unpredictable expression of their own physicality, non-figurative yet communicative. Landing on the fine line between harmony and disorder, Van San’s sculptures are liberating experimentations, cheerful yet uncanny.