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Tessa Garland is a London based artist who trained as a scultor and now shows her work in a variety of media but predominantly in moving image.
Garland uses cinematic language to create real and part fictional places that are found in everyday life. Fragments of these locations are filmed and reordered in the edit to create hybridspaces that evoke anxiety or the ever present threat of disaster. Eclectic mixes of filmic devices are employed, such as using scale models, lighting and sound effects. This experimental approach extends to the variety of cameras that are used from mobile devices and Super 8 to video camcorders- whatever is needed for the individual integrity of each work. B Movies and early science fiction films that play with notions of the everyday and collective fear influence the work. Her work has recently been shown at the ICA and the Whitechapel Gallery London, Spacex Gallery Exeter, Les Inattendus Lyons, MACVAL Contemporary Art Musuem and Rencontres International Paris, France.
Tessa Garland is the co curator and organiser for the international moving image event ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, The Nunnery Gallery, London. She has been in receipt of numerous arts grants and awards both to develop her own practice and to curate and organise exhibitions and events across the UK.
As a freelance artist she also works as a specialist arts/media educator, trainer and mentor. In the past she has worked on projects for The British Museum, The TATE Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, The BBC and The Bow Arts Trust.
For more information contact tessa@garland33.fsnet.co.uk