Cover Image: Tamorin Lavers discusses works from Golden Breadcrumbs with visitors at the exhibition opening, Goldfields Arts Centre.

Golden Breadcrumbs – Tamorin Lavers
Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Friday 12^th December 2025

Tamorin Lavers is the most recent artist to complete a residency at the Goldfields Arts Centre and launched her exhibition, Golden Breadcrumbs, inspired by her time in the region, last week. 

It comprises five new artworks recreating screenshots from her tracking app when the artist was out exploring the bush and searching for precious gold nuggets; the ‘breadcrumbs’ referred to in exhibition’s title. It’s also rounded out with a selection of the artist’s favourite works from the past few decades. 

The Arts Centre is an extensive venue, and curator Mireia Gonzalez has selected the front foyer space to display these works. This prime placement and allows viewers to experience the exhibition as a linear journey, beginning with mixed-media works inspired by nature and animals, progressing to the artist’s pastel artworks that recreate childhood memories with a style that perfectly captures the nostalgia and sense of play, ending with the featured titled pieces.

Overall, the exhibition was delightful and the artist herself a bubbly passionate person. Wearing gold nugget earrings made from ‘breadcrumbs’ discovered on her trails, Tamorin was excited to share some of her story and enthusiastic with gratitude for the residency and support the Arts Centre provided that enabled her to explore her art full time.

While Tamorin has been a practising artist for many years – contributing to many competitions, group exhibitions, a solo exhibition in North Bridge, Artcosm (2006), and selling commissions – it’s only this past year after retiring from her profession as a nurse and midwife has the artist been able to focus on her craft full time. In fact, the residency opportunity came along at a crossroads moment for the artist and was her first experience of being an artist in residence. 

Each Golden Breadcrumbs painting represents one of the trails the artist has undertaken through her adventures out bush prospecting and enjoying the immersion in nature. The app Tamorin uses to track her progress and not get lost – a significant danger in remote regions – provides aerial views of the traversed area and marks the user’s journey with a bright pink line. The artist has then recreated these images through acrylics and mixed media and added gold dots to symbolise fortuitous discoveries. However, like most good prospectors who guard the locations of successful finds closely, the dots represent nuggets the artist found, but not exactly where.  

                  “The golden breadcrumbs on the artworks represent actual gold, but also golden opportunities in life. You have to take them up and run with them. This residency has been that for me. It’s given me so many more ideas. I got to immerse myself in the community. I love the socialisations and to just explore and experiment in so many different ways with my art. It’s incredible how much you can learn. I found this residency to be a golden opportunity, and it will take me further.”

The Golden Breadcrumbs Exhibition is open until mid-February 2026 and you can follow the artist through her platforms at tamorinsart.com and Facebook and Instagram pages, @tamorinsart.