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Deborah Tarr (born 1966) is a British contemporary artist. She lives and works in Primrose Hill, London.
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Early life and education
Deborah Tarr was born in Manchester in 1966 and was brought up in the North West of England. She studied painting at Winchester School of Art, and graduated in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art. Following a year living and working in Paris in 1989, she returned to Winchester to a studio where she worked for the next ten years. During this period she made several large scale paintings for her first solo show in Winchester Cathedral in 1994. She was also invited by the Cathedral to make two large panels for the inauguration of the new visitors centre. During the period 2008 - 2012, the Artist kept a studio at the Quarry Bank Mill National Trust site, Styal Cheshire. [1] She now works from her home studio in Primrose Hill, London.
Career
Since 1991, Tarr’s work has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout London, New York, and Chicago. Solo exhibitions have been featured in Alresford Gallery (Winchester), Winchester Cathedral, Bruton Gallery (Bath and New York), and in Core One (Chelsea Harbour). Since 2004, Tarr’s work has been featured at Cadogan Contemporary.
Galleries that have hosted Tarr’s work in group exhibitions include Bruton Gallery, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art Gallery (Hampshire), Wilson Stephens Fine Art, Stockport Art Gallery,[2] Gray M.C.A [3] Islington Art Fair and Lapada Art & Antiques fair [4], Max Rollitt (Olympia Art Fair) Mark Jason Contemporary Art (Olympia Art Fair), and Cadogan Contemporary in London.
Tarr’s work today is featured in Ritz Carlton Residences in Chicago, Candy and Candy, Louise Bradley Design in London and the Hampshire County Council’s National Collection. Her work is also housed in a number of international private collections.
Style
Tarr’s paintings experiment with aspects of modernism, minimalist abstract painting and Arte Povera. Influences on Tarr’s work are wide and various but include European painters such as Pierre Soulages, Serge Poliakoff, Alberto Burri and 20th Century American Abstract painters. Her 2010 exhibition, entitled “The Private Lives of Objects,” was a series of collage, paintings and assemblages. “Her paintings focus on their own materiality,” and tend to differ “not as much conceptually as they do visually.” Ideas of time and place can be seen in Tarr's work, whether this be the home stomping ground of Primrose Hill, Cornwall or time spent around Nice in the South of France, in such paintings as Cimiez, Daymer Bay, Red Square, Rocks and Flesh, Weather towards the Cat and Fiddle.
In the Press
April 2012: Tarr was named as “one to buy” by interior designer Louise Bradley in “the Insider,” Country & Town House Magazine. October 2013: One of Tarr’s paintings was featured in House and Garden Magazine