About

Chi Ling Tabart is a sculptor based in Hobart, Tasmanian. She works in timber to create detailed, hand crafted, whimsical characters. Her characters combine imagination, sentiment and folklove to interpret issues about our environment and the lives we inhabit. Chi-Ling’s work is held by private collectors and public institutions in Australia and overseas.

Chi Ling Tabart grew up in South Taiwan. She trained in traditional painting and completed a graphic design degree. She worked as a graphic designer in Taiwan before relocating to Australian in 2006. She later moved to Tasmanian where she taught herself wood sculpting and still works as a graphic designer.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

2015 ArtBoy Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

2018 The Existence of Ghosts, Lightbox, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania

2019 Preserved, SideSpace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania

2020 Fall, Lightbox, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania

2022 Inner Eddies, SideSpace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania

Group Exhibitions:

2016 Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Victoria

2016 Rupert Gallery, Group exhibition, Hobart Tasmania

2018 Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Victoria

2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, New South Wales

2020 Stanthorpe Art Prize, Queensland

2023 – 2024 Making Space, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

Awards and Grants:

2016 Winner – People’s Choice Award. Contemporary Small Sculpture Award,

Deakin University, Victoria

A Part of Me – acquired by Deakin University

Commissioned projects:

2016 Sculpture, An Aries Girl

2016 Sculpture, Fox

2017 Sculpture, A cup of coffee with a black soul

2017 Wood Brooch, Owl

2019 Sculpture, Echidnas

2020 Sculpture, Scout and Ban

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