Information — Four Worlds Tarot

A reading event will be held at Sydney Contemporary 2025, 10–15 September, if you are interested in participating in this iteration of the work, please book your place here [link will be live on 28 August 2025, 8pm].

Please remember the readings will take place within Sydney Contemporary, so you will need to hold a valid Sydney Contemporary ticket, for the right day, in order to gain access to the reading event. We will keep bookings open for the duration of the fair, so if you can no longer make your booking please cancel online so the space can be made available for others.

Readings will be at booth I12: Emily Gardener Projects and Jonathan Smart Gallery.

Second edition

The second edition of Four World Tarot will be limited to 100 decks. This edition has a new card back as well as updates to several of the major arcana. It is packaged in a rigid two-piece box which also contains the white book, written by Dr. Anna Smith.

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Collaborators

Julia Morison’s artistic practice investigates and reimagines systems of order, drawing from Euclidean geometry, constructivism, formal abstraction, alchemy, numerology, Kabbalah, and tarot. Her recent exhibition, ‘Ode to Hilma’ (City Gallery Wellington, 2024), featured ten large-scale paintings responding to Hilma af Klint’s ‘The Ten Largest’ series. Morison shares af Klint’s interest in spiritual symbolism as a shared language and in exploring myths and structures that may reside in our collective unconscious. juliamorison.nz

Dr. Anna Smith has studied and collected tarot for nearly 30 years, reading informally for friends and family while lecturing on its history and connecting with an international community of tarotists. Collaborating on Four Worlds Tarot has expanded her role, offering new ways to engage audiences at contemporary art events. Anna sees this project as an opportunity to explore how archetypes persist and transform through artistic interpretation.

Alice Bonifant, a longtime collaborator in designing Julia’s art publications, is particularly interested in the boundaries of artworks and their documentation. She sees the tarot deck as both an artwork and an art publication—one that extends Julia’s practice into a tool for further narratives and deeper audience engagement.

Harriette Herlund, a designer and tarot reader, completed her BFA (Hons) at Ilam in 2022, researching how tarot can guide the design process. Her practice challenges traditional design conventions by using tarot as a tool for deeper questioning and collaborative decision-making. For Four Worlds Tarot, she has helped shape the design of the deck and reading events while also exploring how tarot can guide the collective’s working process.

Emily Gardener Projects

Jonathan Smart Gallery Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Knight Associates is a Tāmaki-based design studio recognised for its honest, tactile approach to architecture, interiors, and experiential briefs, creating spaces with a focus on craftsmanship and material integrity.

John Christoffels, cinematographer, produced the film of Anna Smith dealing the cards.

For any press enquiries regarding the project please contact Emily Gardener.