“Woman Vs Wild”
Tai Snaith
1 June → 23 June 2012

Woman Vs Wild is a site-specific installation of new collage and drawings on found books and paper. Installed among the books in the West Space reading room the work responds to the site as a home of personal reflection, inspiration, historical documentation and sexy librarians. Based around ideas of the creative self being akin to a wild animal; a beast that is put through various degrees of taming, compromise and process before publishing or presenting an acceptable outcome, Woman Vs Wild is a playful and wry look at women that have trusted this wild part of their psyche.

The opening will see the launch of an artist’s book comprising new writing and images curated by the artist – a menagerie of ideas bringing together a bunch of writers’ thoughts loosely grouped around the concept of ‘wildness.’

Tai Snaith has a multifaceted practice working as an independent artist, curator, producer and writer. Honesty, absurdity, animism and the fine line between fiction and reality heavily influence her ideas alongside a recurring focus on collaboration and experimentation. Using collage and drawing Snaith often explores the inner thoughts, spiritual beliefs and aspirations of the greater animal kingdom as a means to find her own. Tai’s work is part of various private and public collections including the Artbank collection and the NGV works on paper collection. Tai has shown extensively in Australia and abroad and is currently represented by Helen Gory Galerie.