Young and Vital Artists: Tamia Saunders

A Wanted Young and Vital Artist for 2023, multidisciplinary artist, Saunders' works mirror her emotional states as the creative process unfolds

Tamia Saunders, Grace in a Mess of Emotion, 2022.
Tamia Saunders, Grace in a Mess of Emotion, 2022. (Supplied)

b.1997

multidisciplinary

Saunders’s work combines painting, mixed media, and printmaking, with distortion, disfiguration, unusual colours, and unlikely image-mashing at the order of the day in rich, figurative portraits that mirror her emotional state as the creative process unfolds. She has worked on numerous commissioned projects and was last year commissioned by the Art Bank of South Africa to create art for the National Museum.

Tamia Saunders, Musing, 2023.
Tamia Saunders, Musing, 2023. (Supplied)
Tamia Saunders, Still Lingers, 2021.
Tamia Saunders, Still Lingers, 2021. (Supplied)
Tamia Saunders.
Tamia Saunders. (Supplied)

• From the September edition of Wanted, 2023.