Tahlia Phillips

@art.tahliaphillips

Tahlia is an emerging artist who explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, drawing inspiration from the surreal, and often perplexing nature of dreams and fantasy escapism. Tahlia’s paintings double as a window to a scene where simple things become a story of magic. She is captivated by the strange and beautiful, where objects come to life, and characters exist in a space that is both familiar and elusive to the viewer, capturing a sense of curiosity and familiarity, reminiscent of fairy tales dreams, mimicking the playful nature of characters from a children's story but with a matured twist. Tahlia aims to evoke a sense of longing and relatability from her viewers, suggesting a narrative that dances between the unbound childlike imagination and the difficult experiences of adulthood, where the line between fantasy and reality is delightfully and mercifully blurred.

View the work: Building 5 Upper Mezzanine, Rayner Hoff Project Space