Tiarna Herczeg




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PSEUSHI X TIARNA HERCZEG



About:



Tiarna Herczeg (she/her) is a proud First Nations & Hungarian woman and artist living on Gadigal lands. She identifies as Kuku Yalanji/Kuku Nyungkul Warra with family ties from Hopevale, Cherbourg and Laura, QLD.

Herczeg was born on Dharug Country in Western Sydney and spent a majority of her life in between there, Rockhampton and the Blue Mountains.

She has developed her own artistic style using her practice as a way of telling her own stories and sharing significant places related to her identity. Herczeg’s practice is intuitive and instinctive as she often paints without a direct idea, but rather uses her practice as a ritual for listening and learning.

Her approach to painting also comes from a sense of urgency regarding her spiritual and cultural identity. Living off Country and frequently moving around, the act of painting, for Herczeg, becomes a vehicle for groundedness.

She works to disconnect from the idea of ‘painting’ and instead tap into spirituality, relinquishing the fear of painting a perfect artwork. This fearlessness manifests in loose, large, gestural brush strokes with vibrant colours and organic compositions highlighting the familiarity, richness and vitality of Country. There is a spiritual exchange of energy between Herczeg and her work; listening and opening up to be guided by intuition… remembering places of which she has lived, visited and dreamt.

There is a big theme of home and belonging in Tiarna’s work that acknowledges her dual identity as someone who is First Nations and also who is the daughter of a second gen Immigrant.


Represented by: Curatorial and Co, Woolloomooloo, Sydney.


CV


Education:


2023-2024: Certificate IV Marketing and Communications. TAFE NSW.

2021-2022: Bachelor of Fine arts The National Art School.

2018-2020: Bachelor of Laws and Arts, Majoring social justice. Macquarie University.



Professional experience:


  • November 2022- Feb 2024:
Retail Host , MECCA brands.


  • December 2021- March 2022:
First Nations curator, Soft Stir Magazine


  • March 2022- June 2022:
Artistic director, Bizarro: Mode festival


  • December 2021- February 2022:
Intern Marketing , Unilever


  • June 2018- June 2021:
First Nations Social worker, Department of Communities and Justice. Mount Druitt



Exhibitions:
Coming up:
  • curatorial and co- Solo show June 2024.
  • Laundry Gallery- solo show September 2024.
  • Apollo Gallery Budapest- November 2024.
previous:
  • Curatorial and Co- Darlings Exhibition, December 2023

  • RM Williams- November 2023

  • The Design Files, October 2023

  • Sydney Contemporary , September 2023

  • Curatorial and Co, “Wungariji” Solo show Feb 2023.

  • Cement Fondu, “ Kadabal Bangkarr” solo show, Oct- Dec 2022

  • Koskela, “ Ngadiku” solo show, September 2022.

  • Craft Victoria, “ Into the everywhen” group show July 2022.

  • Hake house of Art, “ JUWA” solo show, June 2022.

  • Brunswick Street Gallery, “ Don't be a stranger” group exhibition, June 2022.

  • aMBUSH Gallery, “ While you were sleeping”, group show, May 2022

  • Ginger Finch ACT, “ Colour story” group show , April 2022.

  • Michael Reid Northern Beaches, “ Trio” group show March 2022.

  • The Other Art fair, Dec 2021.

  • Airspace projects, “ Jana bayan buku dungan nagyu bawajin”solo show , April 2021.

  • Gaffa Gallery, “ Urns of 2020” December 2020.



Commissions and collaborations:

Coming up:
  • Hamilton Island Project 2025.

Previous:

  • Double rug collaboration  2024. 

  • PSEUSHI X TIARNA HERCZEG- Invasion day T-Shirt ( fundraising) 2024.

  • The Darling Hotel, Sydney 2023.

  • Urban Logistics x Curatorial and co x Tiarna Herczeg 200sqm Mural, Rockdale. December 2023

  • Soy clay collaboration, June 2023.

  • koskela x Charter Hall project Sydney “ Maku Wunkun” March 2023.

  • Mode festival , Bizzarro, Artistic director June 2022.

  • Soft Stir, First Nations curator , Feb 2022.

  • Reach out Australia, design commissions, Jan-July 2022.

  • UNSW design, commission, Jan 2022.




As featured in :




  • The local project 2024.

























 






Available art


- Curatorial and co





Contact


Tiarnaherczeg@gmail.com

For all artwork and commission inquiries please contact Curatorial and Co: 

Email: hello@curatorialandco.com
Phone: +61 2 9318 1728













Tiarna Herczeg