CHI-LING TABART

Ancora Imparo, “Yet, I am still learning”.

Michelangelo

Chi-Ling Hsieh (Taiwanese birth name)

Born 1978, Taiwan

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Chi-Ling Tabart grew up in South Taiwan. There she trained in traditional painting and completed a graphic design degree. She worked as a graphic designer in Taiwan for 6 years before relocating to Australian in 2006. She later moved to Tasmanian where she taught herself wood sculpting and still works as a graphic designer.

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Wood carving began as a hobby when Chi-Ling taught herself in late 2012. She works in timber to create detailed, hand crafted, whimsical characters. She combines imagination and sentiment to give viewers a sense of her thoughts about present and past life and old stories from her hometown. She select recycled or off-cut timber and then hand carves and polishes them into art sculptures with the unique patterns and original colours of the wood.

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Solo Exhibitions:

2015 ArtBoy Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

2018 The Existence of Ghosts

Lightbox, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tas.

2019 Preserved

SideSpace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania

Group Exhibitions:

2016 Finalist – Contemporary Small Sculpture Award,

Deakin University, Victoria.

Winner - People’s Choice Award

A Part of Me - acquired.

2016 Rupert Gallery, Hobart Group exhibition

2017 Salvaged Art, Kingston, Tasmania

2018 Finalist – Contemporary Small Sculpture Award,

Deakin University, Victoria.

There’s plenty of fish in the sea

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Commissioned projects:

March 2016 - Sculpture  "An Aries girl"

September 2016 - Sculpture "Fox"

April 2017 - Sculpture  "A cup of coffee with a black soul"

December 2017 - Wood Brooch  "Owl"

December 2019 - Echidnas

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