Biography
Tanisha Bhana is a contemporary South African visual artist, Poet and an established attorney in the financial services industry of South Africa. She is a visual art finalist of the Thami Mnyele competition and a winner of the Lovell Gallery National Art competition in 2011.
Inspired by the desire to contribute towards the growth of a society which is free from historical constraints and fear-based conditioning, Tanisha expresses the freedom to explore authentic dreams towards achieving a shifting human potential.
The photography taken by the artist, often in naturally challenging environments is overlayed, saturated and broken down through digital media and interposed with misplaced objects, each paradoxically symbols of both hope and despair, offering different meanings to dreamlike landscapes.
She describes her process as the deliberate destruction of images to create aged, dreamlike visions of futuristic landscapes, to place the viewer in the position of looking back at our future, symbolically declaring that "destruction naturally breeds creation and, in creating, we often destroy".
