Tara Badcock

Tara Badcock is a visual and conceptual artist based in northern Tasmania who graduated from the University of Tasmania at Hobart with a postgraduate degree in fine art. After spending many years living in cities pursuing a creative career, Tara spent a three-year stint in Paris, which was a textile-fuelled, life-altering experience. Tara has spent the past 12 years raising children and endeavouring to maintain a creative career in textile art and

as well as exploring sculpture and installation. Tara has recently returned to live on the family farm with her children as a single parent to be able to focus on building a more symbiotic and restorative existence of art, gardening and self-sufficiency skills.


Words by Tara Badcock

Photography by Ness Vanderburgh

Excerpts from Issue 9 of Faire


It’s been a few rough, heart-wrenching and raw years to reach this point of a now beautiful, peaceful calm, and it tastes delicious…I jokingly refer to it all as returning to my default factory settings. If I were French I might say I’m reconnecting with my terroir.
I have a passion for collecting antique hats. I feel the most like ‘me’ when I’m wearing one of my Edwardian beauties skewered to my hair with a lethal-looking hat pin or two, complete with feathers and lace or a trailing chiffon scarf.
I’m a passionate collector of antique and vintage textiles, mainly because they still seem to contain the human touch of their maker and/or wearer. The many hands that go into transforming and adorning cloth are what interest me most, alongside the layering of usage, wear and repair.

You can read more about Tara Badcock in Issue 9 of Faire

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*Disclaimer some of these photos and texts may not be in the print issue but we love them and wanted to share them with you


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