Tara Sampy Artist Bio

Tara Sampy graduated from Norwich School of Art in 1994.  She has continued to developed a practice, working with different media, to explore her interest in both how communities are made visible, and how they are represented. Her socially engaged practice has included work with women’s groups, allotment holders, and older people. Commissioned to make site specific work in the UK and Europe she has presented her work in partnership with national galleries at conferences both in the UK and Germany.

She has always had an interest in plants, the people who grow them, and interpretations of the concept of ‘nature’. In her most recent work, she has brought plant life into the making process, placing them onto the inked plate and printing directly from them. 

Notions of wilderness and community and how we ‘manage’ those environments are born from this interest in the botanical field, and they naturally spill out into her public engagement and participatory work too. Are we looking at representations of plant life, or human life?

Tara Sampy has developed a practice, working with different media, to explore her interest in both how communities are made visible, and how they are represented. Her socially engaged practice has included work with women’s groups, allotment holders, and older people. 

These Monotypes are individual unique prints that are created by re-laying the paper onto the print plate several times. Utilising the plants positive and negative image, she plays with colour, transparency line, and form to create an entrancing series of works that explore moments of connection, balance and relationship.

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