About

TAMIKA GRANT-IRAMU is a Brisbane based artist born in 1995. Since graduating from Queensland College of Art in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (majoring in Interdisciplinary Print Media), she has continued to develop her practice in relief printmaking. Inspired by the environment of her immediate natural surroundings, Tamika’s practice focuses on the minute areas of native flora, bringing into focus these aspects that often go unnoticed. The relationship she has with the process of relief print carving corresponds to the strength and fluidity of her natural environment - the constant randomness that arises from the directions in which she carves allows newly discovered forms to grow. There is an importance in the connection between the artistic process and herself as the medium, as it allows a new dialogue to come into play. As a landscape artist, Tamika immerses herself in the natural topographies she encounters, using relief print carving as a tool to capture her visceral impressions of place.

The connection she has to place and the physicality of relief-print carving intertwine as she explores her cultural identity, using her creative practice to find ways of connecting with the differed threads of her Papua New Guinean, European and Torres Strait Islander heritage. The carving techniques and storytelling aesthetics of Torres Strait Islander and Papua New Guinean culture combined with the Western influences of her upbringing converge in her practice as she explores and grows her own story.

Informed by techniques and conceptual approaches of her printmaking practice, Tamika also translates her artworks into new mediums such as textiles, interior furnishings, and public art.

Tamika Grant-Iramu Artist CV