Tamari Bebia
Tamari’s artistic practice explores memory, childhood emotions, folklore, and the relationship between the visible and the unseen. Working across painting, sculpture, and object-making, she investigates how personal experiences, collective beliefs, and fragments of the past shape human perception.
A recurring theme in her work is the search for emotions rooted in childhood — vulnerability, fear, curiosity, and uncertainty that linger long after their origins have faded. She explores how familiar places, images, and objects can preserve traces of these experiences, giving form to feelings that are difficult to articulate.
Folklore, mythology, and ancestral beliefs form another important strand of her practice. Rather than romanticizing these traditions, Tamari examines their darker, ambiguous dimensions, exploring humanity’s relationship with death, ritual, and the unknown. Forests often emerge as spaces of mystery and transition, where the familiar gives way to uncertainty.
Through different materials and forms, she explores atmosphere, texture, symbolism, and the interplay of light and shadow. Across her diverse projects, Tamari seeks to express experiences that exist between personal memory and collective imagination, the tangible and intangible, the remembered and forgotten. Her works invite viewers into spaces of ambiguity, where emotions and inherited narratives remain open to interpretation.
Tamari Bebia is a Georgian visual artist and illustrator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design from the Georgian Technical University.
Her artistic journey began in childhood and has evolved through painting, drawing, mixed media, and visual storytelling. Throughout her career, she has participated in exhibitions and art festivals in Georgia and abroad, receiving recognition for her work.
Following a period of personal transition after becoming a mother, Tamari devoted much of her creative practice to children’s book illustration. Between 2021 and 2025, she illustrated seven published children’s books, further developing her visual language and narrative approach.
She is now returning her focus to painting, developing a new body of work for her upcoming solo exhibition. This new chapter marks a renewed engagement with her personal artistic practice and an exploration of themes through her own visual language.