Tai Snaith

Tai’s work straddles 4 parallel, boisterous trains of thought and carriages of different ideas.

Drawing, illustration and Design;

Tai creates 2d images with a variety of different mediums including ink, pencil, pen, gouche and watercolour on paper, found paper and wood. Her illustrations have been published widely online and in Curvy (YEN) and used for a number of covers and cards. Tai’s illustrative work will soon be published in Street/Studio through Thames and Hudson (to be released mid 2010). Tai uses her drawings as as a way of tapping her imagination and as an iinitial idea process, a kind of warm-up for larger three dimensional ideas and concepts.

Performance;

Tai performs with fellow artist Narinda Reeders in a duo called The Hit & Miss (www.hitandmiss.me). Together they practise the long lost art genre of Tableau Vivant, in which they create installations with their own bodies as the main element. The end result is a real-life, site specific, still image. Often their work explores the ideas of mortality, consumerism, symmetry, femininity and the absurd.

Curated projects;

Tai currently works as an independant curator and producer. Recently working for the Next Wave Festival, The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, The Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Melbourne Emerging Writers festival. As a producer Tai usually works collaboratively curating and producing large site specific projects with fellow artists. Some of her other large scale curated projects include ‘Rich Text’ at Storey Hall , ‘House Proud’ for Next wave and before that ‘New Ruins’ in the former City Watch House Jail for the Commonwealth games cultural program.

Critical;

Tai conducts a regular review on Melbourne Radio station Triple R (102.7fm) as part of the Smart Arts program on Thursdays. She also writes for various art and design magazines including Artichoke, Architecture Australia and UN magazine.