Tamara Henderson’s immersive installations often include painting, film, textiles, sculpture and audio. Drawing on mythology and investigating shadow states and other realms of consciousness, Henderson’s sensory explorations are informed by dreams, hypnosis, literature and psychotropic experiences. Invoking the aims and strategies of Surrealist literature, theatre, art and film, the artist’s anthropomorphic forms and fantastical films are at once droll and foreboding. Henderson was born in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1982 and studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; the Städelschule, Frankfurt; and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Last updated April 2017