Tarron Ruiz-Avila is an Australian artist who has exhibited extensively in both commercial and artist-run galleries, holding regular solo shows. Tarron trained at the National Art School in Sydney, he holds a Bachelor of Fines Arts in Print Making with honours in Drawing.
Tarron’s practise is primarily focused on creating small scale collages, dioramas and kinetic displays. These works are carefully constructed of images sourced from a variety of used and/or discarded print media publications. Ink, gouache and watercolours are used to draw into the images and manipulate them.
An undoubtedly subversive activity, Tarron’s practise acts out, almost in protest to the prescriptive nature of the media they were drawn from. In the spirit of culture jamming and billboard alterations these constructions impose autonomy and initiate dialogue with a medium that generally imposes a passive reception of ideas. But perhaps most importantly they present an opportunity to re-enchant an empirical world, that is all to often burdened by a “mess of facts”.

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