ARTIST STATEMENT
Tammy Honey’s practice investigates the ways we perceive, remember, and organise experience through colour and structure. Across her series, she translates data, memory, and environmental systems into visual fields, using colourfield painting as both method and language. In Datafields, Honey explores the collection and recall of information, where structured bands of colour function as coded fragments of memory. The works register moments drawn from personal and historical experience, translating them into rhythms of tone and line. Colour becomes a trigger for recognition, and the paintings act as systems of recall, where memory accumulates, shifts, and is continually reinterpreted.
Datascapes extends these concerns into spatial and perceptual territory. Vertical and horizontal fields suggest terrain, horizon, and atmospheric depth, where memory and environment intersect. Landscape is approached not as a fixed site but as an experiential system shaped by perception and recollection, linking individual experience to broader spatial and temporal contexts.
With Disrupted Fields, Honey introduces rupture and instability into these systems. Bands, blocks, and geometric interruptions fracture visual continuity, creating fields under pressure where horizons and structures emerge and dissolve. Chromatic shifts, moving from restrained, muted tones to brighter, occasionally fluorescent passages, introduce subtle disruptions within disciplined compositions, translating the rhythms of urban and lived experience into structured yet unsettled visual fields.
Together, these bodies of work form a coherent trajectory: from encoding memory (Datafields), to perceiving space (Datascapes), to disrupting perceptual systems (Disrupted Fields). Honey’s practice reveals how colour, rhythm, and structure mediate our experience of time, memory, and environment.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Tammy Honey is a Melbourne-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores memory, place, and data through painting, video, and installation. Her work navigates the space between translation and disruption, often unfolding as long-term, evolving series that respond to specific themes. Processes inform these themes of collecting and translating data, which Honey integrates into her conceptual and visual investigations.
Honey has exhibited and screened internationally, with works shown at venues including Tate Modern (UK), Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), SCOPE Art Fair (Switzerland), and Dundee Arts Centre (UK). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania, and her work is held in collections including the ASAC Collection, Ergas Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, State Library Victoria, Gippsland Art Gallery, and private collections across Australia, the USA, and the UK.
EDUCATION
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, University of Tasmania
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2023 Mapping Place, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2022 96: Tammy Honey, FAC Artist in Residence, virtual gallery
2021 Baby, I'm Your Man, Digital Facade, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria
2019 Aesthetic Disruption, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Spidergirl, Venice Contemporary Art Fair, Venice, Italy
2018 Spidergirl, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Tammy Honey: iLandscape 2007-2018, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 iLandscape, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Victoria,
2018 iLandscape, Dark Space, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania
2003 Manchurian Remix, CAST Gallery, Level 2 screening room, Hobart, Tasmania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2026 Prelude, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2025 The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2025 Winter: Memories, Studio Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2024 FEMME: Women in Art, Studio Gallery, Sydney, Brisbane
2024 The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Digital Aesthetic, Box Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2022 G Biennale 22 Metaverse, online, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Christmas Exhibition, Small Works by the [MARS] Artists, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Carried Landscapes, curated by Kim Collmer, Q18 Galerie, Quarter am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
2019 Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms - #4, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Super Awful Meta War Machines, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Creativity Persists, Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2017 Artefacts From 21st Century Humans, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne
2012 Placeness, 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin
2011 Boom Boom, Knowledge Knowledge, ARS Upstairs, Napier Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
2009 Figuring Landscapes, curated by Steven Ball, Catherine Ewes, Pat Hoffie, Danni Zuvela. TATE
Modern, London, UK, Artsway, New Forest, UK, Dundee, Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, FACT Liverpool, UK, Vivid, Birmingham, UK Showroom, Sheffield, UK, 7th Hull International Short Film, UK, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK, Site Festival, Cinecity, UK, Brighton Film Festival Stroud Valley Artscape, UK Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Perpetual Art Machine, University of Georgia Art Galleries, Athens, Georgia, USA
2008 Perpetual Art Machine, Utsikten Art Center, Utsikten, Norway,
2008 Perpetual Art Machine, Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, USA, SCOPE Art Fair, Basel
2008 The Mirror Stage, curated by Helene Black & Yiannis Colakides, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus
2008 Neo Goth: Back in Black, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2007 Australian Gothic, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Project Space, & Spare Room, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 New Revelations, curated by Leon Marvell, Perth International Film Festival 2007, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, WA
2007 After Cinema, 4th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Scala Theatre, Berlin, Germany
2007 Voyeur One, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 Exposed, The Basement ARI, Friskas, Finland
2006 Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Downtown ARI, Adelaide, South Australia
2005 Vital Signs Conference, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria
2004 Megastar MegaMart, Guerilla public projections, Hobart, Tasmania
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2022 Corridors, Online Artist in Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia
2021 ACMI-X, ACMI, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS
2023 Mapping Place, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
2021 Like, Whatever, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Laminex, Bakers Road Entertainment ISBN: 978-0648955344
2018 Spider Girl, Exhibition and catalogue essay by Jessica Schwientek, NOIR Darkroom, CC BY-SA 3.0
2011 Re-Imagine: Contemporary Art, book by L Chuy, Art Now International ISBN: 978-0982092132
2008 Figuring Landscapes: artists’ moving image from Australia and the UK, Exhibition and catalogue essays by Catherine Elwes, Steven Ball, University of Arts London ISBN: 9781846380471
2008 Neo-Goth: Back in Black, Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue, The University of Queensland Art Museum, ISBN: 9781864999167
2007 Australian Gothic: Video Art Now, Exhibition and essay
2006 Risk, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Kings ARI, Melbourne
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2016 School volunteer, Art projects, Queenscliff Primary School, Queenscliff, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Ergas Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
State Library Victoria, Australia
Private collections in Australia, the USA and England
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2007 Acquisition Artist Grant, ERGAS Collection
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2025 Bayside Painting Prize Finalist, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 Winner, BigCI Artist in Residency Prize, BigCi, NSW, Australia
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 GBiennale GB22 Art Symposium, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2022 GBiennale - Film and Arts Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE
2021 GBiennale - Film Festival Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE
2019 GIFF - Film Festival
GUEST LECTURERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023 Artist talk and workshop, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
2022 Speaker, GB22 Symposium, GBiennale, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia
2021 Guest Lecturer, RMIT
2020 Guest Lecturer, RMIT