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Swedenborg Film Festival, Swedenborg House, 2025
Analogue Ensemble, Selector Cathy Rogers, Ramsgate, UK 2025
The 8 Fest, Super 8 Analogue Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2025
Self Made, Short Circuit, Fabrica, Brighton, UK 2025
Visions in the Nunnery, P2  with lead artist Onyeka Igwe, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK 2025
Films of Return, Points of Return, A La Luz, 2025
Bizarre Bazaar, Both Gallery, London, UK 2025
Moscow International Video Art Exhibition, Russia 2025
Resolution, Thames Side Gallery, Curated by Tania Salha and Max Presneill 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. I trained initially in sculpture, where I developed a strong sensitivity to materiality, before expanding my practice to include moving image, drawn to its capacity to register time, change, and lived experience. Alongside moving image, I work with sculpture and installation, often combining these forms to create layered, process-led works that reconfigure familiar materials and sites into something uncanny and unexpected. My practice channels a sculptural sensibility through both materials and the camera lens, using moving image to inhabit and reimagine spaces, while an ongoing interest in the interplay between technologies, sound, and material processes gives my work a temporal, almost dreamlike/surreal resonance. These hybrid approaches invite viewers into places suspended between memory, imagination, and presence.


In recent years I have become increasingly interested in working with analogue film, drawn to its tactile grain and the role of chance introduced through hand processing and the use of organic materials. These analogue films often form part of larger installations that incorporate sculptural elements. My source locations include a group of 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 the curator of the international biennial Visions in the Nunnery at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, working closely with leading moving image and performance artists. Beyond Visions, I have curated and instigated numerous exhibitions, placing particular importance on projects that respond to site and context. For example, Second Nature at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens 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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