Tarin Grey is an emerging artist who works and resides in Naarm/Melbourne. 

Tarin obtained a BA Photography from RMIT in 2011, and after spending time as a studio assistant in the UK, she returned to Melbourne and moved into shooting commercial still life. Tarin spent a decade working in commercial photography and video, during this period she also spent time working as a stylist, storyboard artist, and a creative in set and props construction. In 2023, after becoming a mother, Tarin decided to pursue her love of painting.

Tarin is renowned for her evocative use of colour, light, abstract forms, and reductive scapes. With a background in photography, Tarin brings a keen eye for composition and an innate understanding of visual storytelling to her work. Her observational paintings are often depictions of her everyday suburban surroundings. It is through this domestic lens, that Tarin conveys her need to transform the mundane into something more.

“Being a mum to two young children, my paintings are often explorations of my somewhat insular world. Photography, sketching, and painting, allow me to find new ways of seeing and interpreting the places and people around me. I am driven by a curiosity for human made environments and the people within them. The figures in my paintings help me to understand the landscapes that they occupy. They help me to feel the scale of the trees, the coolness of the shadows, or the warmth of the sun, and at the same time, they invite me to imagine their motivations, thoughts, and feelings, at a specific moment in time.”

Tarin was recently a finalist in the 2025 Omnia Art Prize. She has exhibited in Group Exhibitions across Melbourne.

For more on Tarin’s latest works, exhibitions, and available pieces, visit: instagram.com/taringreyart