Tamara Dubnyckyj graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2005-2007). She lives and works in London.
So far in 2024, Tamara has exhibited in group shows; Uncertain Objects, Part 1 in Somerset, A Room of One’s Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford and It Rose and it Fell, Terrace Gallery, London.
In 2023, she was selected RA Summer Exhibition and Wells Art Contemporary, A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery, exhibited as part of Dungeness 5th Continent, Folkestone Art Gallery, and Stage, curated by LLE gallery, Kingsgate Project Space. She was selected for the BEEP prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022, and the Marmite Prize V 2016 . In September 2018 she had a solo show Stage at the Stone Space gallery in London. Recent group shows include Ghost Changing Room, curated by Mindy Lee at the Wimbledon Space, London 2019, Strangelands at Collyer Bristow, curated by Rosalind Davis, Nightswimming, at the Mission Gallery in Swansea, curated by LLE gallery.
Her paintings and drawings evolve from her collections of objects and ephemera, research trips, and daily observations and encounters. There are recurring themes within the work; an ongoing exploration of drapery, rhythm and play, suggestions of the body, backdrops as stages and platforms.
Objects are arranged, or lifted from found arrangements (ready-mades). There’s a sense of time passing, or staying still. The characteristics of the garments or objects emerge during the process of painting, where the handling of paint is used to create movement, tempo, depth, and also signify formal aspects of colour, shape and pattern within the paintings.