Artworks are first available to purchase in person at the exhibition held from 4-10 Oct at King George Square.
Online sales will open following the exhibition.
Tahnee is an artist and designer based in Brisbane/Meanjin. Her style and practice is heavily influenced by her Diné (Navajo) heritage and cultural practice.
Her works focus on the combining of sustainable organic materials and traditional geometric depictions which align strongly with her graphic design background. Tahnee uses her art practice to decolonise, create order, and facilitate authentic storytelling as a deliverance from severe anxiety, which has heavily impacted upon her life, function, and purpose in and outside of artistic and professional practice.
This work speaks of representations of culture. Representations that paint us as a caricature, not as people. They have and continue to encourage discrimination and inherent bias towards the othered.
Some of the imagery within may be somewhat familiar, with nods to popular and meme culture, but the average audience will have very little idea of the specificities and intricacies of the story, because the authentic meaning and narrative has been hidden behind these marks of appropriation and fetish.