Example 2.

Artists Name: Tassia Joannides

Country: Australia

Artist Bio/statement (max 200 words):

Tassia Joannides received her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from Monash University in Melbourne before moving to Adelaide to work in the Metal Studio at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design. After four years living and working interstate Tassia returned to Melbourne to continue her practice. She regularly exhibits her jewellery and sculptures both nationally and overseas, recently travelling with her work to exhibitions in Japan, Germany and the USA.

Tassia sees her practice as an investigation of form and how it can interact sensitively with the body, sometimes even as an extension of it. Typically she works with flexible materials which aid this special interaction and inspire her to push the boundaries of three dimensional soft structures.

Image 1 – Halfway through “panel stitch bangle” using hand cut panels of bicycle inner tubes.

Image 2 – My partner with a series of three rings on at once.

Image 3 – A page from my sketch book.

Image 4 – Studio space.