Tara Del Rey
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DEL REY has had numerous Solo & Group Painting and Performance Art Shows in the UK, EUROPE & USA, including -
→ LAUDERDALE HOUSE, London;
→ HACKNEY TOWN HALL, London;
→ CANDID GALLERY, London;
→ PARALLAX ART FAIR, London;
→ MIAMI RIVER ART FAIR;
→ CYPRUS OPEN STUDIOS;
→ TRIBE London;
→ SPECTRUM Miami
→ New York
→ Paris Art Fair
→ TOKYO ART FAIR
→ VENICE BIENNALE
→ ART BASEL Switzerland
→ As well as having her Paintings featured in Private & Public Collections in the UK & USA.
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→ Artists for Peace Award
→ Artists for a Green Planet Award
→ Premio Canaletto Painting Award
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Instagram
→@taradelreyart
TARA DEL REY is a Post Postmodern Painter, Performance Artist and Filmmaker whose Work is unapologetically Sincere, Autobiographical, colourful and Spiritual. Like the Sacred Art of India and Tibet each work is infused with healing energy.
Trained at St Martins and Goldsmiths, London, Del Rey has exhibited globally, including SPECTRUM Miami, PARALLAX London, ART BASEL Switzerland, VENICE BIENNALE, Japan, Paris Athens and Cyprus.
Del Rey has won multiple awards including Artists For Peace & Artists for a Green Planet Awards for her best known Performance Artwork ‘SWIMMING NAKED WITH SHARKS’.
‘SWIMMING NAKED WITH SHARKS’
The Magical Protective Power of Vulnerability
TARA DEL REY
‘Indigenous Hawaiian culture has an ancient but enduring tradition of families having ancestral Animal Guardian spirits or ‘aumakua, such as the shark, the owl, the dolphin.
Individuals have a duty to care for and protect their 'aumakua.
I am lucky enough to have swum with a pair of natures deadliest predators and emerge unscathed.
Though terrifying at the time
I now feel
blessed
mysteriously magically protected
humbled
forever imprinted by the fragility of all life
In return for this special blessing I have dedicated my art resulting from this extraordinary encounter to raising awareness of the need to preserve and protect sharks as a species from destruction by us humans through overfishing and habitat destruction.
