ABOUT

After finishing the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1997 specializing in Graphic Design TM developed her unique visual vocabulary style and solid technical skills as a painter.While she starts an active exhibition career she studies three years at the ‘Actors Studio’ in The Hague and engages in theatrical activities. She uses these experiences making performance art and video’s when she obtains the Master’s of Fine Art degree at the Academy of Art and Design in Breda / Den Bosch in 2007.

In 2021 her first museum solo exhibition PLAY opens in the Drents Museum in Assen. In this exhibition she shows a large amount of mainly paintings and work on paper from the period since she studied in Breda. With this exhibition a catalogue is presented with texts of director Harry Tupan, writer Justine le Clercq and Tamara herself. For Tamara the exhibition marks a turbulent period in her life; After divorce, a move to another new city, trying to build a new life, a traumatic violent experience hits her hard.. but after that, the year before COVID she meets the love of her life and life seems to be smiling again when PLAY opens. After she decides to start a new chapter in her career. To deepen and renew her way of working she starts working at various Artist Residences in the Netherlands, for instance the Van GoghAir programm in Zundert where she is inspired by the personal history and work of Vincent van Gogh, and works in two different Studio’s to experiment with new materials and a more direct approach to what she calls: “ A cut-and-paste theatre wherein I play all roles myself. “

Unfortunately during the first ‘Artist in Residence’ period in Zundert in 2023, her lover dies suddenly after a motor-bicycle accident. As it happens Tamara started a course to be a beekeeper just two months before. Both working in the residences and becoming a beekeeper helped her get through a difficult time.

In 2024 her second museum solo exhibition takes place in Stedelijk Museum Breda, the city where she lives with her two children since 2016. The exhibition Face Me, Play Me, Be Me, contains all her experiments and new ways of telling her story; film,, beehives, clay puppets, jute masks, cut out paper in combination with small canvasses and a risoprint edition with collages, mixed media and photographic work.

In 2025 she starts teaching on a regular basis, it provids her satisfaction, inspiration and a certain amount of routine in weekly life that gives her peace at mind. However what happens next in life and work isn’t certain but for sure the year 2026 is the beginning of new adventures.