About
Photo: Pablo Martin. Stylist: Kendra McCarthy. Courtesy of the artist and Designer Rugs Australia.
TAMIKA GRANT-IRAMU is a Brisbane based printmaker with a passion for translating her works on paper into new mediums such as textiles, interior furnishings, murals and public art. Since graduating from Queensland College of Art in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (majoring in Interdisciplinary Print Media), Tamika has continued to develop her practice in relief printmaking. Her dedication to her printmaking practice was first recognised in 2018 as a finalist in the Works on Paper Category for the prestigious 35th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).
In 2019, Tamika was shortlisted for the Haugesund International Festival for Artistic Relief Print at the Haugesund Art Gallery in Norway, a Onespace feature artist in the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2019 where she received the Emerging Artist Award and an Australia Council Grant Recipient (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Panel). This grant funded the collaborative development of a new artwork with nationally celebrated artist Brian Robinson, which has since toured to four galleries in Queensland and acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art collection in 2023.
Tamika has undertaken numerous public art commissions, including a major public art project at STARS Herston Hospital completed in 2020, which was shortlisted as a finalist in 2022 for the Rider Levett Bucknall’s Award for Best Public Art Project. The STARS commission also led to the development of a collaborative suite of custom designed rugs with Designer Rugs Australia, launched in March 2022.
Her artworks produced in the printmaking medium have also been short listed in the 2020 National Works on Paper Awards, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery, VIC, was awarded Highly Commended at the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2022, and a recipient of the Necia Gilbert Emerging Young Artist award in 2023.
In late 2023, Tamika embarked on a two-month residency in Torino, Italy through Nthspace Torino. The outcome of this residency led to a solo exhibition at Onespace Gallery in June 2025, with one of the works selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Nation Art Prize 2025.
Tamika Grant-Iramu is represented by Onespace, Brisbane.
Tamika Grant-Iramu Artist CV