About

Tika Robinson grew up on a cattle and truffle farm in rural NSW, close to Bungendore. Tika attended UNSW Art and Design completing a Fine Arts degree with Honours. She is currently focused on her ceramic fungus sculptural works. Exploring the effect that different clay and glazes create in the works. 

Tika is interested in the contrast that can be created and explored with diametrically opposing ideas. Through her work she explores ideas such as life and death, and decay and growth. In particular the decay to regenerative process that fungi produces. Tika looks at the contrast of humans and nature through the lens of a human trying to delve into the depths of natural ecosystems. She considers the everyday contrasted with the extraordinary and dissects the idea that the everyday is the extraordinary. 

Tika first became interested in art at a young age through the close vicinity to nature living on a farm created. Her works with clay considers the form of the human contrasted with the natural environment. Growing up on a truffle farm initiated her interest in different fungi, leading to exploring the connections between all living things. Tika explores the natural ecosystems of mycelia networks that connect multiple organisms and fungi within these networks. These networks create part of the essential process of the worlds regeneration with decay and growth.