Biography
Born in former Yugoslavia Tamara moved to Australia in 1995. Currently she lives and works from her studio at Agnes Water. Tamara first studied art at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane where she graduated with BA of Visual Arts in 2001. Later she studied printmaking at Brisbane Institute of Arts and drawing at the London Atelier of Representational Arts.
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Tamara Sladojevic
Contact
0412 615 276
tamarasladojevic@gmail.com
www.tamarasladojevic.com
Education
2016 Quixotica, Ceramic Residency, Cooroy
2014 Julian Ashton Art School, Painting, Sydney
2013 London Atelier of Representational Arts, Drawing
2010 Brisbane Institute of Art (BIA), Printmaking
2001 BA Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
1995 High School Uros Predic, Serbia
1992 Primary School, Manojlo Popic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Awards
2016 Ceramic Centre for Excellence – Regional Networking Award
2016 Winner – 1770 Art Show – Painting Category
2016 Highly Commended – Bundaberg Arts Festival, Heather Heckenberg Memorial Award
2002 First Place – Evolution Art Prize, Wollumbin foundation
Grants
2016 Recipient of the Gladstone Regional Development Fund – funding for the public sculpture created for the ‘Art in Park’ project, initiated by Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum.
Collections
1998 Premises of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais Wilson, Geneva
Exhibitions
2016 Public Art Installation –‘Art in Parks’ Popup Public Art Project, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum initiative
2016 The 40th rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award – Selected
2016 1770 Art Show – Winner (Painting Category)
2016 Bundaberg Art Festival- Highly Commended (Heather Heckenberg Memorial Award)
2015 The 40th rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award – Selected
2010 ‘Disturbance’ collaborative interactive installation, Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Vault Installation Space
2002 – 2012 collaborative interactive installation aka OKO T
List of Events:
2012 Dragon Flight Reunion, Conadale, QLD
2011 The Globe Theatre, Fortitude Valley, QLD
2011 Goobalistic 10 year, Souths Leagues Club, Westend, QLD
2005 Mayhem – Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
2005 God Speed – Brisbane RNA Showgrounds
2005 Slinky – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2005 Darkside – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2005 Redtronic – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2005 Reanimator – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2005 Big Day Out – Gold Coast Parklands
2004 Advent*jah Summer Blast – RNA Showgrounds Brisbane
2004 Orphic – Trocadero Entertainment Centre Gold Coast
2004 Time Tunnel – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2004 Drop – Elephant & Wheelbarrow Brisbane
2004 Mayhem – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2004 Drop – Elephant & Wheelbarrow Brisbane
2004 Goobalistic – Souths Leagues Club
2004 Drop – Elephant & Wheelbarrow Brisbane
2004 Big Day Out – Gold Coast Parklands
2004 Summerfielddayze – Doug Jennings Park, the Spit Gold Coast
2003-2004 Utopia NYE Sydney SuperDome
2003 Advent*jah – RNA Showgrounds Brisbane
2003 Gods Kitchen – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2003 Lowlands – Biddinghuizen Netherlands
2003 Fuse – Brussels Belgium
2003 On @ Off Corso – Rotterdam Netherlands
2003 Fuse – Brussels Belgium
2003 Project Ozma – Reading UK
2003 Utopia – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2003 Advent*jah – RNA Showgrounds Brisbane
2003 Atomic NRG – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2003 Two Tribes – Doug Jennings Park, the Spit Gold Coast
2003 System 6 Reboot – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2003 Warp Factor – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2003 Summerfieldayze – Doug Jennings Park, the Spit Gold Coast
2002 System 6 Shutdown – Arena Entertainment Complex Brisbane
2002 Nucleus- Jorge Brisbane
2002 3dlavins BETA TEST – Modus Studios Brisbane
Professional Appointments
2016 Workshop facilitator –‘Making Ceramics Vassels with Coloured Porcelain Slip’
2015 – 2016 Facilitator for the ‘Agnes Water Life Drawing’
2012 – 2016 Portraiture for private collectors
2010 Teaching drawing at the Bundaberg Regional Gallery
2002-2010 Owner/Director, OKO T pty ltd – providing video production and interactive installations for music festivals nationally and internationally
2001 Creative Secondment (QCT) Queensland Theatre Company, production of Alexandar Ostrovsky’s play “The Forest”, directed by Tom Gutteridge
2000 Visual mixing, amphitheatre, Woodford Folk Festival
2000 Camera operator, Adventjah, RNA Showgrounds
1999 Studio Assistant for Trustees Scholarship classes, Queensland Art Gallery
1999 Camera operator, Smartarts Interactive Theatre, Woodford Folk Festival
1999 Camera Operator, Mu Magic Media, System 6, Arena