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 reductive scapes, often integrated with figures and rendered with an emotive & vibrant colour palette. 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 the 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 have an inherent need to persistently search for meaningful moments of visual interest within my view. This could be the way the light illuminates a pocket of houses in my street, or the way a figure moves through a suburban scape, breaking up the hard lines of a building with the curve of their body. I look for the micro-moments where figures, light, and shape, merge and become something exquisite.”

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