Tamara Elkins

Tamara Elkins is a multidisciplinary artist operating at a cross-section of performance, installation, video and textiles, working between Dharrawal(Wollongong) and Gadigal(Sydney), Australia. She completed a Diploma of Fine Arts at TAFE, and obtained a  Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from UNSW Art and Design.

Elkins has continued to develop her practice with residencies in Buenos Aires, Edinburgh and Sydney, and sought further development through courses with Body Weather, Force Majeur, Critical Path and Readymade works. She was also a member of the Base Metal Performance collective.

In 2024 she received a Mini-Space Grant from Critical Path, leading her on to run a series of workshops on mythmaking with performance and writing as part of their Critical Practice Workshops.

Elkins has an ongoing collaborative partnership with artist Katy B Plummer in which she provided choreography and performed in Plummer’s work The Ubiquitous Myth of the Eerie Wife. They continue their collaboration with the current project COLOSSUS.

Elkins own work focuses on the role of spellwork to drive narrative and mythmaking, in particular, looking at rituals within the matrilineal line and how they can act as a scaffold reinforcing resilience through personal identity.

2026 Experimental Choreographic Residency