Tania Blackwell was born in Tasmania/ Lutruwita and now lives in Melbourne/ Naarm. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Deakin University in Creative Arts.

After completing Masters of Landscape Architecture at Melbourne University in 2018, her work began to interrogate a broader sense of the landscape. Exploring deep time, cultural heritage, and layers of memory.

Through creative mapping, research, and the testing of ideas; her creative practice looks at shifting environments including trauma scapes, darkness, and hauntings.

New work is interdisciplinary and very much about the process. Some works are physical, while others explore participatory practice and the intangible. Media include writing, painting, drawing, photography, and installation.

Highlighted achievements include: recipient, Steve Calhoun Research Scholarship 2016; presenter, Place of Memory, Intangible Cultural Heritage for ICOMOS, Florence, 2017; and presenter of Trauma-scapes and the Aesthetics of Darkness – Tasmanian Landscapes, Island Dynamics Conference, Svalbard, Norway 2019, selected for Project Anywhere 2020 and Venetian Bind 2024.

Tania Blackwell also holds a Bachelor of Arts ( Fine Art) with honours from RMIT University in 2002.