Tamara Barrage

Tamara Barrage is a Lebanese artist and designer based in Dubai. She took a master’s degree in product design at ALBA, the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut, in 2011, then a second master’s in contextual design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Her work begins with touch: she manipulates familiar materials through experimental techniques until forms and surfaces provoke the senses, manipulate emotions and articulate memories, producing pieces that hover between sculpture and object. Series such as Bodily, Omphalos and Beyond the Surface have been shown at the Sursock Museum and Beirut Art Residency, at Design Week and Expo 2020 in Dubai, at the Jameel Arts Centre and at Cambi Case d’Aste in Milan, and she has worked with House of Today.