EDUCATION
2023 Bachelor of Creative Practice (on going)
2021 TAFE Advanced Dip. of Visual Arts
2014 TAFE Certificate 4 Ceramics
2006 M.I.E.C.A.T Grad. Dip Creative and Experiential Art Therapy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 BEYOND THE BRUSH NSW Parliment House
Fountain Courtyard TAFE Exhibition
2024 HIGHER GROUND with Maggi Waddell
SideSpace Gallery at Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2023 MATERIAL THINKING M_ARTS PRECINCT included in
CONSTRASTARE Graduate ExhibitionTAFE Murwillumbah
2023 First Prize MIXED MEDIA Ocean Shores Art Expo
2023 EARTH UNFRAMED Belco Art Centre, A.C.T.
2023 FORCES OF NATURE Grafton Regional Gallery
2022 NEWRYBAR HALL ART SALE
2022 FRINGE FESTIVAL Artist in Residence Sydney
SILK Gallery/Restaurant. October to February 2023
EXHIBIT [A]RT Graduate Show M C Arts Precinct
2021 4 TENACIOUS FEMMES Group Tafe Exhibition
2020 SERPENTINE GALLERY, Lismore
2017 CONFLUENCE. “Tafe Visual Arts Group Exhibition “
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in N.S.W. and interstate Australia
Teaching, Employment and Professional appointments
2018 LHD NSW Health Art Therapy groups for adults
2014 MCA DAISI Art Therapy groups for children and teenagers
Inara Kent is an emerging visual artist living on Bunjulung country ,in the Northern Rivers, NSW known as the “rainbow region”. which includes Mt. Wollumbin, the remnant central plug of one of the best examples of an erosion caldera in the world. She lives on a Maccadamia/Avocado farm in Whian Whian surrounded by this subtropical environment , with her farmer husband Will and Tenterfield terrier Joey. Inara is continuing her art studies for a degree in Creative Practice.
Inara has always been drawn to exploring the relationships and our interactions with the natural world. Being influenced by coming from a rich Latvian cultural heritage where the dominant element is nature. Latvians are bound to landscape, the culture made up of close connection with the land, sea, forest, and sky as well as from the sense of ties to ancient ancestors and past landscapes.
Currently Inara’s visual focus is informed by the connection and relationship to these abundant subtropical rainforests and describes how this relationship with the landscape impacts her on an emotional level with colour, collage, acrylics, and ceramics .