Architecture from facade to body

reoccuring themes through material and dreamscapes. often reacting to place, tinkler’s work cahnges dependant on the palce they find thmesleves. From teh earliest arhitecture has run thgouhg her work often referenced in its sheer sacel of endeavour, but also through reference. AS early as 2001 the large out door site sepcific work referenced the building that hovered a cl;iff above its form. In this light tinkler can be seen as a landscape paitnier. We can draw a line throuhg Tinklers continuous retuening to reliefes as a mianstsay of her practise. along wiht teh matieral of palster her chosen material since the laste 1990s, enjoed as a materials that can be painting, cast and modelled that has a opacity that leands itself to sulpture the white object leaning i to shadow to find form.

The movement of Endeavour

Tinkler spent her early life between two worlds one of the back streets of inner Sydney and the other in the ex-pat life of Malaysia. The worlds so disparate and ending in her late teens have left a mark of memory and dream that come seeping into the thematics. Weekdneds sailing, holidays sailing to Thailand though then undeveloped Lankawi. The sail and boats hold a special place in collective memory of white sails that arrived on diostant shores,  Stoems of Penang are revistied though teh eye of W H tuner

something rises from thte depths, works that hint and

sees objectys that we forget to question, these taken objects and ornaments are talismans like a learned klanguage, but slowly the meanings shift and the object become symebols. These readings of architecture over tinkmlers time in london morphed her work to question classical architecurte.

South African eye

If there is a vernacular in caope town it is the shanty, a morphus shaope that appears, multipies and constantly renews iitself, evol;ving with what m aterials are to hand. Tinkler here lends her eye to a new architecture though the material of cardboard, plastic bags and fabric.

I work on the peripheries of my own experience, influenced by places and time spent between them. Vessels and movement are themes that are revisited in many forms. Architecture sometimes as skin  sometimes thinking of myself as a landscape painter feels the best description I am an artist engaged with movement, I believe a reflection of my Dawn to objects and scenes that allude to objects that reflect in the utility a passage or to the often romantic image of movement such as ships. A material that I retunr to for its integrity of utliity the transport apllette, can be disassembled and reimaged as the belly of a ship, or seem to hold the possibiity of as a vessel. There is a sense of dream taht is contained between the pure function, a questioning of its transformation

often asking what is an objsct once its function has ceased.

either My sculpture utilises the visual language of ornament, folly and façade, to accentuate the accumulation and veneer in creating cultural identity and the transformative process of creating place identity. Working within the discourse of historicism, perceiving architectural objects and environments as representational and symbolic, I’m interested in the gestures that these symbolic forms make and their part in the psychological leap that occurs as space is transformed into place. My work simultaneously pays homage to classical forms for the comfort and continuity that their continued usage creates, while also wanting to peel off these visual codes. What would it mean to strip back the line that has been drawn from Greece through Rome to the Imperial Colonial powers? This legitimising by claiming commonality is a political tool and my colonial past pushes me to recognise it in this light.

My work is a physical experience, they are outward looking wanting to engage with a broad audience in which ever way they choose. I do hope however, to create a dialogue that looks underneath the veil, to see the veneer for what it, creating a space to question how we populate our surrounding and what our attachments to them truly signify.

I am an artist and wine professional, returning to my studio in 2023, having taken a break to open natural wine bar, Weino BIB and wine import company Weino Imports. More recently having launched VESSEL wine fair to highlight sustainable packaging within the wine industry.