About
With my art practice I explore themes that include memory, bonds, and connections to a location, through the use of distortion and deterioration of digital media.
I have spent the past three years in Indiana USA which strengthened my interest in exploring our relationships to people and place. Nature is the main subject of my work, it often involves scenes taken from the Australian landscape. These locations are a way to express how we might connect to a location.
Just as the visuals are warped so too are our connections to a location depending on our closeness both physically and emotionally– often these are intertwined and are affected by each other. As the imagery is distorted different colours and textures are emphasised in a way we were unable to view them previously. My work often reveals close details of a location without ever truly revealing their exact location keeping them a secret for myself.
Education
2018 - 2021 Master of Fine Arts | Indiana University
2014 - 2017 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours | Australian National University
Exhibitions
2021 Press Start, Lakeside Arts Nottingham, Arts Council England
2020 The Wrong Biennale, New York NY, USA & Online
2019 Remembering and Forgetting, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington IN, USA
2018 Magnify, RAW, Canberra, Australia
2017 Graduating Exhibition, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra, Australia
Ruby Honours 1, CCAS Manuka, Canberra, Australia
Pride Week, PROMPT Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Kiss, Smith’s Alternative, Canberra, Australia
Lucence, School of Art & Design Gallery ANU, Canberra, Australia
2016 Graduating Exhibition, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra, Australia
Installations
2018 Enlighten, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra Australia
2017 Art School Ball: Euphoria, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra Australia
Ruby Ball, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra, Australia
Enlighten, National Archives of Australia and School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra Australia
Film Festivals and Screenings
2018 IU Student Showcase, Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington IN, USA
Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, Italy
2016 Transmission, School of Art & Design ANU, Canberra Australia
Awards
2020 Friends of Art Award
2019 Mary Jane McIntire Fellowship
Press
April 2021 ‘Art is anything’: MFA thesis shows open at the Grunwald Gallery, Indiana Daily Student
Mar 2018 Tayla Blewitt-Gray, Milan Machinima Festival
Sept 2016 Game Art: Tayla Blewitt-Gray's Escape (2016), Gamescenes: Art in the age of video games
Aug 2016 Fighting for air: The isolation of breath in films, Film School Rejects
Aug 2016 Nothing but hot air: When breathing in movies, IGN Germany