Artist Biography:
Tara Bursey is an interdisciplinary artist, self-publisher and arts worker. She has worked as Curatorial Assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada and Artscape Youngplace, and in a curatorial capacity for Hamilton Supercrawl, Craft Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Burlington, and the Wychwood Barns Community Association. Her artwork has been exhibited across Canada as well as in Copenhagen, Berlin and Eye, Suffolk, UK, and she has presented her artistic research in the areas of textiles and contemporary art at Symposia in Los Angeles, Sackville and Savannah. Tara is perhaps best known for her rigorous work in the areas of programming and education, which includes the production of unique exhibitions about zines, people’s history, rug hooking, and professional wrestling.
Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Tara lives in Hamilton and serves as Executive Director of the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Canada’s only labour history museum and multidisciplinary art centre. Tara was appointed the 2022 Lassonde Artist-In-Residence at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and Centre[4]Arts’s Hamilton-based Artist Resident in 2023. She publishes her zines and artists’ books under the moniker Partizanka Press.
Find more of her work online at tara-bursey.com.