Tarsha Cameron – Highly Commended

Tarsha is an emerging crossdisciplinary artist working within installation and performance. Her work explores interpersonal relationships-not only with each other but across place, ancestry (time), and species. Tarsha created and performed her inaugural performance art work, Together We Are Apart, at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe. This was soon followed by Peggy Buxton (2019) at the History Festival. Have You Seen What I See? (2020-2), a cross-platform interdisciplinary full-length show, was created in partnership with Dance Hub SA and Arts SA. Tarsha’s performance drawing installation Unseen/seen (2021) was shortlisted for a SALA prize. One (2022), a collaborative exhibition with artist Oriana Julie, was exhibited at the Mill. Within the same year her debut cabaret Unapologetic (2022) was first performed.

Tarsha graduated from the Adelaide Central School of Art with her graduate installation,  Embracing Unravelling (2023). This led her to working in the domain of socially engaged art. Hag-ia (2024-) won the overall award for best Visual Arts and Design at the Adelaide Fringe 2025 and has already had multiple installation iterations as an expression of her; Hag-ia Cailleach in the Heysen Sculpture Biennial 2025, and Hag-ia Femina during SALA 2025 which marked the 13 lunar month cycle of Hag-ia.