Tarsha Davis
Tarsha Davis is a Kuku Yalanji and Palawa woman and multidisciplinary artist working across painting, digital art, weaving, jewellery, and textiles. Her practice is grounded in story, identity, and community, drawing on both traditional knowledge and contemporary techniques to create bold, layered narratives.
Alongside her creative practice, Tarsha has worked across the arts, community, and justice sectors, delivering and managing programs focused on improving wellbeing and access to services. This commitment extends into her design work, with commissioned pieces licensed for Our Watch’s Reconciliation Action Plan, Ovarian Cancer Australia branding, and the Write Yes campaign and First Nations Justice Team branding at GetUp!
Her work has been exhibited at Linden New Art, the Koorie Heritage Trust, and Aboriginal Exhibitions Rutherglen, with pieces held in private and permanent collections. She was awarded the RMIT Emerging Artist Award (11th Koorie Art Show) and selected for the 2024 Blak Design Program. She continues to expand her practice at the intersection of art, design, sustainability, and advocacy.
Tarsha’s work invites connection through story, place and one another. Whether through personal reflection or shared experience, she creates with intention, exploring new ways for these stories to be seen, heard, and experienced.
Exhibitions
2025: Stitchin’ Stories: Blak and Threadly, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
2024: The 12th Koorie Art Show, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
2023: The 11th Koorie Art Show, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
2022: The 10th Koorie Art Show, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
2021: Dhadjowa Foundation Fundraiser, The Abbotsford Convent, Vic
2020: The 8th Koorie Art Show, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
2020: Linden Postcard Show, Virtual Exhibition
2019: Aboriginal Exhibitions, Rutherglen, Vic
Licenses & Commissions
2024: Physical artwork and licensing, Ovarian Cancer Australia
2023: Digital & physical artwork for the Write Yes campaign, GetUp!
2023: Licensed Kurranji for print publications, Australians Together
2021: Licensed two artworks for digital & print publications, GetUp! First Nations Justice Team
2020: Licensed artwork for Our Watch’s RAP digital & print publications
2021: Artwork for eight town beautification banners, Douglas Shire Council
Awards
2023: RMIT Emerging Artist Award – The 11th Koorie Art Show, The Koorie Heritage Trust, Vic
Projects & Programs
2024: Blak Design – Fashion and Textiles, The Koorie Heritage Trust
2019: Led school groups in painting a 20 x 3m mural, Wall to Wall Festival
Art Industry Employment
2020 – 2021: Indigenous Arts Officer, The Torch
2021 – 2023: Program Manager (Statewide Art in Prison and Community Program), The Torch
2020 – 2021: Founder, Online Jewellery Business
2019 – Present: Independent Artist & Workshop Facilitator