Tara Gould, words, workshops, art & nature
Tara Gould is an award winning short story writer, artist and educator whose work explores home, nature, mental health, psychology, ritual and wildlife conservation.
After completing her foundation and honours degrees in Art & Design and Theatre with Visual Practice, Tara graduated from Sussex University with a Masters in Creative Writing, Art and Education.
Her recent art and writing highlights through story and experiences how nature and the human are bound together, exploring landscape, home, and loss and how creation can emerge from the uncertainty and turbulence of life.
Tara was the inaugural CF Writer In Residence and was published in the CF Spotlight Books series by Myriad Editions, winning a Saboteur Best Novella Award Special Mention for her story 'The Haunting of Strawberry Water'.
She was part of the Creative Future Next Up development programme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy Agency.
She has a history of supporting emerging writers and creatives. She founded the curated short story cabaret Short Fuse at Komedia in Brighton to provide a platform for local writing talent, and more recently The Small Story Cabaret in Lewes to support emerging local writers and artists.
Previously, Tara drew on her training in theatre and performance writing and worked as a script reader for a Brighton based film company, and was script writer and consultant with Brighton based NPO Ragroof Theatre on two site specific performance pieces.
She has also has had a short play and a docudrama broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
She has since worked across a range of arts and FE organisations in Sussex, supporting vulnerable and underrepresented people to gain confidence and reduce anxiety.
Facilitating creativity workshops that draw on nature, literature, art and mindfulness, Tara's objective is to help individuals deepen their relationship with creativity and the natural world in order to find solace and meaning.
Scope, The Oyster Project, Creative Future, The Wellbeing Hub at Preston Park Recovery Centre and Brighton & Hove Adult Education Hub are just some of the organisations she has worked with.
In 2018 she returned to visual art after a break of twenty years and her text based installation piece, 8 Journeys Home was exhibited at the Matter exhibition at Glynde Place, marking the start of her emerging creative & visual practice.