Visual Artist
Rachael Tanner is an artist and museologist from Brisbane, living and working in Hobart, Tasmania. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland College of Art, 2015, and Master of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland, 2021.
Rachael is a spiritual artist who utilises embodied, process-led practices experienced through bodywork as the ground for a multidisciplinary visual and cultural exploration. The Art seeks to weave together divergent ideas and philosophies in order for audiences to better integrate their bio and somatic experience and understandings of themselves and the culture around them.
Cultural Embodiment is the somatic INTEGRATION of information about the physical environmental world and human sciences anthropology through perception and awareness of the body. ​
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This art is an ongoing pursuit with multimedia and interdisciplinary studies to create expressions of divinity and synthesis of human mind - body - soul. The work aims is to mediate western scientific and eastern philosophical concepts of yoga and embodied ritual and temple studies . The key areas of research are related to the mystical and biomedical of the human body. My work applies the use of modern technology, ANCIENT RITUALS, meditation, eco-somatic dance, and YOGA to contemplate these ideas.
Connection to EMBODIED CULTURE has formed through an enduring practice of yoga; the inquisition of the physical and somatic body in relation to the natural environment, focussing on enriching the experience of consciousness through deep bodywork. This has also been reinforced through studies of Zen, Buddhism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lomi Lomi Hawaiian healing and Shiatsu. Ultimately, the practice is an exploration of the healing arts - body, breath and consciousness to expand cultural awareness, connection to the sacred and ephemeral of intangible heritage, liminal experience and ritual.
Salamanca Arts Centre Solo Exhibition 2023
Rachaels work is museological and multidisciplinary and therefore looks at the way we can use visual material to communicate cultural, social, anthropological ideas to engage audiences into a deeper relationship to themselves, their community, their environment and connection to earth. Ultimately, the practice is an exploration of the human - earth relationship which looks at how we can express connection to the sacred and ephemeral of our biological and ecological heritage. The collaboration between specimen, digitisation, and visual arts explores the subject of conservation and preservation of the natural world within an ideal that encourages symbiosis and reciprocity with earth.
Vacant Assembly SOLO Exhibition 2022
Rachael’s works occurs across divergent theoretical and practical disciplines; museological studies, visual arts, and yoga. These divergent modes of philosophical thought peel the layers of consciousness on multiple tiers. Primarily her work deals with oil paintings, digitisation and remediation techniques. The artwork will speak in diverse and emotive ways to those interested in natural history, ecology, technology, collections, ethnography. Much of her installations and digital remediations express the cyclical nature of life, the sacred, and ephemeral, resulting in a transformative experience which unfurls over time and on differing planes.
