Tanmaya Bingham's strikingly surreal and intricate artworks investigate the mechanics of human dynamics and the neurological processes that create patterns in our daily lives. Creating intensely detailed images, using portraiture and figures as the forefront subject of her work, Bingham’s arrestingly open and direct, yet slightly warped faces, have a clear aesthetic – and an even clearer will to delve, and delight in the ever shifting and morphing human condition.
By choosing herself and her family and friends as her primary subjects Bingham explores the notion that we learn through example and the stories of others. Therefore, each artwork, whether painting, sculpture, drawing or installation, is laden with symbolism and her own personal life. When these concepts are delivered in her visual form they become a metaphoric map that is meaningful for both the subject and the viewer.
Bingham’s focus on psychological, sociological and genealogical patterns that occur within the context of herself and her immediate circles is what makes her artworks quite so alluring for the viewer. Although the content of her work is highly personal, the themes are universal, and the skill with which she executes her work only goes to compound the already unforgettable impression she makes.
Tanmaya Bingham has exhibited all over the world, predominatly in the US and Australia where she now resides. Bingham has been awarded several prizes - 2010 Kenilworth Art Prize (Finalist), Queensland Australia, Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art (Finalist) Melbourne, Australia, and Walker Street Gallery (Finalist), Melbourne, Australia. In 2009 Northcote High Views, Northern Exposure 09, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2007 Off the Wall, Melbourne, Art Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and in 1993 she won Excellence in Art, Santa Fe Prep, Santa Fe, NM, United States.
