Tiarna Herczeg









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Tiarna Herczeg (she/her) is a proud First Nations and Hungarian woman, born and raised on Dharug Country and currently practising on Gadigal land (Sydney). She identifies as Yalanji/Kuku Nyungkul, with family ties extending to Hopevale, Cherbourg, and Laura, QLD. Weaving inspiration from these diverse landscapes, her artistic practice is deeply personal and intuitive — a way of staying grounded and spiritually connected amidst a life shaped by movement and relocation.

For Herczeg, art is a ritual of listening and learning. She paints without preconceived notions, guided instead by feeling and ancestral memory. Her understanding of intuition is shaped by the belief that gesture is inherited — carried through generations, land, and lived experience. Her work becomes a conversation between memory and place, body and land, silence and sound.

Herczeg moves through the world carrying both the deep sense of belonging that comes from living on the Country she’s connected to, and the layered experience of being a third-generation immigrant through her Hungarian lineage. Her practice lives in the in-between — shaped by both presence and displacement, memory and movement. This complexity allows her to create work that speaks from multiple cultural and emotional positions at once — not as contradiction, but as a form of wholeness.

Themes of home, identity, and belonging are central to her practice. These emerge through loose, gestural brushstrokes and vivid colours that channel the emotional resonance of Country.
“The colours I use don’t just look like a place, they feel like one. I think colour can speak in ways words can’t. It holds grief, breath, rest, memory. For me, colour isn’t decoration or theory — it’s a way of communicating what can’t be named. It’s ancestral and emotional. It’s the body remembering.”

This exploration extends beyond painting into sculpture, sound, and installation. These mediums allow her to investigate her cultural narrative through immersive, sensory experiences that reflect her connection to place, energy, and spirit.

Herczeg’s approach is process-led and guided by embodied and intuitive knowledge. Rather than seeking control or resolution, she creates from a place of listening — where each mark or sound is a response to what is felt, not forced. Drawing from inherited gesture and relational ways of knowing, her work reflects a dialogue between artist, material, and memory. This is not spontaneity for its own sake, but a way of staying connected — to Country, to spirit, and to the quiet intelligence of the body.





Solo exhibitions

2025     Girl In The Clouds - Apollo Gallery, Budapest
2024      I Came Through The Sky - Laundry Gallery
2024     Through Coloured Glass - Curatorial+Co.
2024     R M Williams
2023     Wungariji- Curatorial and Co
2022     Kadabal Bangkarr - Cement Fondu
2022     Ngadiku- Koskela
2022     JUWA-Hake House of Art
2021     Jana bayan buku dungan nagyu bawajin- Airspace projects


Group Exhibitions

2024 DARING - Curatorial+Co.
2023   Friends Faves-The Design Files.
2023   Sydney Contemporary - Curatorial and Co.
2022   Into the everywhen-Craft Victoria.
2022   Don't be a stranger-Brunswick Street Gallery.
2022   While you were sleeping-aMBUSH Gallery.
2022   Colour story-Ginger Finch ACT.
2022   Trio-Michael Reid Northern Beaches.
2021   The Other Art fair.
2020   Urns of 2020-Gaffa Gallery.

Commissions + Public Art

2024 The Sundays, Hamilton Island QLD , Collection of artworks and murals.
2024    The Harbord Hotel NSW,  Mural.
2024     Lendlease Hicksons Park Barangaroo, Artwork commission for public space furniture.
2024     Sofitel NSW, Mural
2024     ArtsMatter, Rowan Sallvage x Tiarna Herczeg . Digital performance
2023     Urban Logistics co , Mural 200sqm.
2023     Double rug , Tiarna Herczeg rug collection.
2023     Soy clay, Nail polish collaboration.
2023     koskela x Charter Hall project “ Maku Wunkun”.
2022     Mode festival , Bizzarro, Artistic director.
2022     Soft Stir magazine, First Nations curator.
2022     Reach Out Australia (NFP), Digital artwork commission.
2022     UNSW Commission for Joyce Wu/ Ending domestic violence.


Selected Publications

2025 Vogue Australia , Print, Artist profile
2024  Women's weekly March issue , Print, Artist profile
2024  The design files ( featuring 4 articles) ,Online, Artist profile and artwork feature.
2024  Russh Magazine, Print, Artist profile
2024 The Local project, Online, Artwork feature
2023 Hunter and Folk Magazine, Online, Artist feature
2023 The Urban List, Online, Cultural

Represented by Curatorial and Co, Woolloomooloo, Sydney.


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For all commissions, Exhibitions and collaboration inquiries please contact :

Hello@curatorialandco.com

For anything else:

Tiarnaherczeg@gmail.com