Tahney Fosdike

editor, writer, critic

About

Tahney Fosdike is an arts and culture writer, critic, and editor living between Paris and Melbourne. Her work revolves around how politics, class, and identity determine, and conflict with, contemporary artistic practice.After a rural upbringing, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology (University of Adelaide) before entering the professional artworld through a Master of Art Curatorship (University of Melbourne). She began with criticism for ArtsHub while completing her studies, with this independent practice then developing alongside institutional experience, including at Arts Project Australia and the Environmental Film Festival Australia. In 2022, she migrated to France, and founded arts communication studio Compass North. She has since served as Art Editor at The Suburban Review, a journalist at Radio France Internationale, and has reported from major international events including the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Paris, and the Melbourne Triennial.Tahney’s published work includes reviews, criticism, interviews, personal essays and reportage, with subjects ranging from motherhood to Outsider Art to gentrification. Influenced by the autofiction of Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing, Annie Ernaux, Elena Ferrante, and Deborah Levy, she presses her interiority up against on-site observation and structural critique to look at the tensions of cultural access and creative labour’s precarities.Her bylines include Artlink, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Fad Magazine, Art Almanac, Artshub, Australian Book Review, and Little White Lies, amongst others. She also publishes Sticky Teeth, a monthly newsletter of arts reading lists and personal art-adjacent essays.

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