Tinieka is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

 

Born in Eora/Sydney, Tinieka has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (First Class) from RMIT University in 2021. Since graduating Tinieka has participated in curated group exhibitions and two person collaborative shows. In 2022, Tinieka received the People’s Choice Award for her work ‘Self Organisation in Motion’ (2021) exhibited in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, and in 2024 was selected as a finalist in the Bentley’s 40 Under 40 Art Prize on the Sunshine Coast. As a recent recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust’s Emerging Artist Grant, Tinieka will be undertaking a residency in Portugal, in August and September 2024. 

With an understanding of our current contemporary moment as a time which is characterised by a collectively experienced state of uncertainty, her painting practice investigates the connections between intuition-led making in the medium of painting and the state of uncertainty this can induce as a way to make sense of our contemporary condition. 

Paralleling this uncertainty and the changeableness that defines our times, Page’s practice looks to the process of painting without predetermined outcomes as a way of establishing an inquiry into methods of responsiveness to this ongoing change.