Tahlia Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the complexity of human emotion through deeply personal and introspective work.
Her series “You’ll Get Flowers Once You’re Dead” stems from a memory of emotional neglect, where gestures of care were withheld and only promised in suffering or death.
In this context, flowers become symbols of absence, reflecting how unmet needs can erode self-worth.
The work ultimately questions why value is so often recognised only in absence, exploring themes of worthiness, visibility, and the desire to be seen and chosen in the present.
At its core, this project is about worthiness and the act of looking inwards.
What it means to be chosen, cherished and seen, now, not just in retrospect.
