Taryn Ossowski is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice investigates the boundaries between material presence and transpersonal experience.
Her artistic practice is shaped by a reverence for natural elements and a fascination with the unseen forces that shape human experience.
Creating with raw mineral pigments, she makes central her relationship with the material—where its agency guides the evolution and telos of the image.
Her methodology has been influenced by a synthesis of creativity, psychology and mysticism. Drawing from her training in transpersonal art therapy and studies at Saruya Artist Residency in Fujiyoshida, Japan.
Ossowski intends for her works to function as thresholds for imaginative engagement, psychological exploration and energetic transmission.
She is also a trauma-informed art therapist who offers her energy to inviting people into imaginal expeditions of their inner worlds to facilitate healing, personal development, conscious integration and spiritual emergence.
Ossowski holds a Master of Cultural Heritage (Deakin University Melbourne), Master of World Arts Heritage (BTU Germany), Bachelor of Fine Arts (UNSW Sydney), and an Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Art Therapy (CCM Sydney).
Her interdisciplinary background informs a practice that bridges traditional artistic techniques and ancient philosophy with contemporary investigations into consciousness and perception.
Selected exhibitions and residencies include BODILY REFLECTIONS (Kaleidoscope Gallery Sydney 2016), A WAY OUT (Verge Gallery Sydney 2017), WABI SABI (Budd Street Gallery Melbourne 2018), LIKE WATER (Budd Street Gallery Melbourne 2019) SARUYA ARTIST RESIDENCY (Fujiyoshida Japan 2023), EARTH IN TECHNICOLOUR (@14 Gallery Melbourne 2024). She is currently represented by Aster + Asha Gallery.
Taryn works from her studio in Melbourne-Naarm, where she continues to deepen her relationship with the Earth’s pigment.