Tara McGinn

Tara McGinn’s interdisciplinary practice combines sculptural (re)productions, image-based assemblage, and reflexive writing, developing studio processes and research that examine visual language and its storytelling capacities. Her recent work employs the syntaxes of domestic spaces, excavating notions of sentimentality to connect, contrast, and translate experiences of trauma, memory, and identity.

Initially informed by a period of isolation, care, and proximity to home, her practice has expanded into a broader dialogue on mobilising the discomfort of the uncanny and critiquing the aesthetics of the familiar. Through writing and research, she activates the narrative qualities of her chosen materials, mapping crossovers and alignments with her own emotional interiority.

This process transforms the meaning of her objects’ textures, forms, and surfaces as built fictions that communicate cultural practices and political narratives around the erotics of class, domesticity, bodily labour, and time. She responds to the spaces her work inhabits through installation and performance, allowing new interventions to shape the continuation of the work and proposing modes of exhibiting that are active and collective, in dialogue with audiences.

Tara McGinn is in residence at Can Serrat in February 2026.