Where's Your Wally?

Tessa Bergan's piece Where's Your Wally? features cable ties fanning out from the rims of the glasses in alternating colours of yellow and white or red and black. The title references the popular book series Where's Wally?, which challenges readers to locate the character Wally within highly detailed cartoon-style illustrations. In Australian slang, the word wally is also endearingly to describe someone who is being silly or frivolous.
The work playfully reflects on the often chaotic state of the world (which can feel much like a scene from Where's Wally?) suggesting that, despite the disorder, we may still look for and express the silly and fun parts within us a means of reaping and sharing joy.

Tessa Bergan is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from Queensland College of Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Media Studies from Southern Cross University.

Working across sculpture, performance, digital media, photography, installation, and, more recently, text-based art, Tessa's multi-modal practice explores both the character of her local city and her personal narrative. Her work is often infused with self-reflexive humour and irreverence, recurring themes of joy and chaos, and a strong sense of place.
Bergan has been an active contributor to the Gold Coast arts community for several years, participating in exhibitions and performances, collaborating with fellow artists, and working in arts education alongside her creative practice. She creates with respect on the lands of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region (Gold Coast).