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Faraway Nearby, curated by Caroline McCambridge and Felicity Clear, Independent Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2027
Kitto Artist Prize (Finalist), in partnership with the Koppel Project, Curated by Dave Charlesworth, London 2026
Elevation Film Festival, Plymouth, UK, 2026
Enguage, Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA 2026
Babbel Babel, Curated by Ellie Reid and Diana Wolzac, The Handbag Factory, London 2026
New Work Film Festival, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York, USA 2026
Where do we go from here? Bell House, Dulwich, Curated by Ellie Reid and Jen Moore, London 2026
Yield, Studio Prokoviev, Dalston, London, UK Curated by Aileen Kelly Caroline MacCambridge, 2026
Fixer Upper, Safehouse, curated by Tessa Garland, Rachael Causer, Karen Byrne, London, UK 2026
Lost & Found, Curated by Tessa Garland and Belinda Worsley, Thames-Side Gallery, London, UK 2026

Tessa Garland Biography
I am an artist who lives between Cornwall and London. My work explores place, perception, and the transformation of spaces. Initially trained in sculpture, I developed a strong sensitivity to materiality before expanding my practice to moving image, drawn to its ability to register time, change, and lived experience. I work across moving image, sculpture and installation, often combining these forms to reconfigure familiar materials and sites into something uncanny and unexpected. My interest in technology, sound and material processes creates works that shift between the real and imagined, with a strong temporal quality and sense of atmosphere.

In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in analogue film, drawn to its tactile grain and the element of chance introduced through hand processing and organic materials. These films often form part of larger installations incorporating sculptural elements. Source locations include precarious sandbank islands in the Ria Formosa, southern Portugal—fragile environments shaped by tidal movement and increasingly threatened by climate change and rising sea levels.

Since 2004, I have been curator of the international biennial Visions in the Nunnery at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, working closely with leading moving image and performance artists. I have also curated and initiated numerous exhibitions, with a particular interest in projects that respond to site and context. Second Nature at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, for example, brought together artists working across mediums to engage with place, materiality and process. My curatorial work runs alongside my artistic practice, creating opportunities for collaboration, experimentation and critical dialogue.

I have exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, presenting work in exhibitions, screenings, and events including CCA, Glasgow; Royal Academy of Arts; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; ICA; Whitechapel Gallery; The Wellcome Trust; Turner Contemporary; Dias Digital Art Space, Denmark; Queens Museum of Art, New York; MACVAL Contemporary Art Museum, Paris; The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Anthology Film Archives, New York; and Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA. I was a nominee for the Jarman Award in both 2013 and 2015.




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