Artist Biography

Tara O’Connor Studio Artist

Tara O’Connor is an OCAD University Graduate of Fine Arts where she majored in Sculpture and Installation. Tara has a wide arrange of sculpting skills from mold making, resin & plastics, wood working & even bronze casting as she continues to expand her artistic knowledge in different applications and processes. Her sculpting skills are life like with surreal elements & bright colours reflecting the season she created the work in.  She often uses recycled materials, collected from her studio or travels, within her resin  & artworks to reduce her impact on the environment. Tara can be found working in her Uxbridge studio on a regular basis & traveling all over Ontario throughout the warmer months selling her resin works & paintings at different festivals, concerts & art events.  

Tara’s small business, Studio, which includes her resin key chains, coasters, bookmarks, jewelry, abstract paintings & more can be found for purchase at the below retail locations:

  • 6×8 Market, located at 184 Baldwin Street, Toronto
  • Moonflowers, located at 312 Osborne Street, Beaverton
  • Bounty in the Boonies, located at 18 Brock Street, Uxbridge
  • Art Arrows, located at 106 Main Street, Mount Forest

Tara is currently booking events, festivals & art events for the 2025 season. If you would like to have her at your event, please send her an email to taraoconnorartist@gmail.com

|FAT| Arts & Fashion Week 2014

Welcome friends and family to FAT- Arts & Fashion Week 2014! #fashion #art #taraartist #toronto #shoetree

I am pleased and honoured to announce I will be displaying an Interactive Art Installation at the week long event!

BACKSTORY—>I come from the country side, Durham Region, and on my way to my cottage I have always seen trees covered in cottagers old summer shoes. I have always been drawn to the mystery of the shoe, who worn them, who started them, how did they get there? Well know its my turn to create one in Toronto! Help me by bringing your old unwanted shoes!

HOW?—>I am asking all designers, fashionistas, photographers, friends, and family to bring your old, worn, unwanted shoes to hammer into my week long installation. We will be creating a Fashion Shoe Tree onsite by incorporating used shoes onto a tree near the venue! (SHHHHH!! Its a secret!)

MY GOAL—> To create Toronto’s First FASHION SHOE TREE!

“The tree at the end of the road, the model at the end of the runway
The tree that grows while the trends fade away
No one ever knew that this would be the day
The models’ shoes become the tree
While the tree becomes the runway”- Tara

TICKETS—> $35 per day or $100 for the whole week, visit http://fashionarttoronto.ca/buy-tickets/ for ordering online. Tickets will be available at the door

CHECK IT OUT—> My artist page at https://www.facebook.com/taraoconnorartist

WEBSITE—> www.taraoconnorartist.com

|FAT| WEBSITE—> http://fashionarttoronto.ca/2014/03/16/tara-oconnor-shoe-trees/