Tessa Garland
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Born: Exeter
Lives: London
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Newcastle Polytechnic, BA hons Fine Art
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Pop, Soho Square, Interactive installation. London. 2004
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[Un]natural disaster Festival Miden, Special Screening presentation of La Soir�e de Votanique, Athens Greece 2013
The Horse Hospital, Screening - Best of the London Underground Film Festival London, London 2012
DysTorpia, Media Series, Queens Museum of Art New York City USA 2012
Short Movies Night, Arbeit Gallery, Islington, London UK 2012
Miden Festival, Athens, Greece 2012
MAsh Rom, The Architecture House, Rome, Italy 2012
Ex-pos-ure U Space Gallery, Atlanta USA 2012
Beyond Zero, Flexi Space, London UK 2012
Right Here Over There, LAL, Kentucky, USA 2012
Multiplexer Gallery, Las Vegas, USA 2012
Souvenirs from Earth, Art TV Station for Film and Video Art, Online 2011
Streaming Festival 7th Edition, Online 2011
Colour out of Space, Video art and performance festival, Brighton, UK 2011
Les Inattendus, Nantes, France 2011
CYBERFEST 2010, organised by National Centre for Contemporary Art in St Petersburg, Russia 2010
mikro_makro aktivitetshuset Flensburg, Germany 2010
InCounter, HBC Berlin, curated Melanie Clifford, Stephen Shielland Erica Scourti Germany 2010
Les Inattendus, Lyons, France 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2010
mikro_makro, Galeria Interdyscyplinarna MCK Slupsk, Poland 2010
Aurora, Common Ground, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich. UK 2009
GHost II, The Belfry Project Space, St John�s Church in Bethnal Green, London, UK. 2009
Steaming Festival 4th Edition, International Festival for Audio Visual Art, Online, The Hague, 2009
Town and Country, Soup and Cinema, Project Space Leeds, 2009
Scare in the Community, curated by Julia Gittner and Jon Purnell, Core Arts, London 2009
Summer Screen, Spacex Gallery, Exteer, UK
Visual Deflections, includes work by Pipolloti Rist, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London 2009
Blue Movies, The Greenway- The fringes of the London Olympic Park, 2 x showings curated by Hilary Powell, 2009
Olympic Visions, the Nunnery Gallery 2009
Visions in the Nunnery 2009, The Nunnery Gallery, London 2009
BoS at Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2009
Underground City, Divus, Undergound City, Shoreditch, London, 2009
Betting on Shorts ICA - London, Point Ephemere- Paris, KIBLA Multi Media Centre -Maribo, Kino Rialto- Stockholm, Romanian Cultural Institute- Bucharest, Mikrokosmos Prince- Athens Kinoklub- Novi Sad, CCCB Pantalla Hall- Barcelona, Romanian Cultural Institute � Bucharest, Kadir Has University -Istanbul, Lanificio-Naples, Crna Kuka/ Kinoklub- Novi Sad, Teater Scenario- Thessaloniki, Kulturpalast- Wiesbaden, November 2008.
Ghost, The Belfry Project Space, St Johns Church in Bethnal Green, London, UK. 2008.
Videophile Phoenix Festival, Brighton 2008
Reading Experimental Film Festival Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, 2008
Orebro International Videoart Festival, Orebro, Sweden. 2008
Drawing on Life, Campaign for Drawing. Participatory installation created with artist Albert Potrony,The Wellcome Trust 2008
PureScreen 21: Follywood, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 2008
Gstaad, Film Festival, Switzerland. 2008
Stardust or the Last Frontier, Screening, MACVAL, Contemporary Art Museum near Paris, curated by Thibault Cap�ran 2007
Stimulus Respond, cross arts event, curated by Jack Boulton, Edinburgh 2007
Another Roadside Attraction, Shoreditch, (3 works selected) London 2007
Shortwave, Brick Lane, London 2007
Visions in the Nunnery, international exhibition of artists working with the moving image. The Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London 2007
East End Film Festival, (2 selected works) Rich Mix Cinema and Genesis Cinema, London 2007
Video Art Screening, curated by Jonas Nilson, Vasteras, Sweden 2007
Fresh, Undergound and Overground, (2 selected works) South Hill Park, Bracknell, 2007
Little Song Films, (screening) video event, Penzance, Cornwall, 2007
After Urban, Video Art and Architecture Event, Selected Philadelphia, USA. 2007
Rencontres International, Film and Video Festival, Paris, Berlin. 2006
The London Special, Clerkenwell Video and Film Festival, London. 2006
Gstaad, Film Festival, Switzerland. 2006
Projecktor, Caf� Gallery Projects, Southwark, London. 2006
B Tween 06, Forum 25, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television Bradford. 2006
Betrayed by the Senses, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London. 2006
Visions in the Nunnery, the Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London. 2006
Wormhole Saloon 11, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. 2006
International Video Art Festival, Cardiff, Wales. 2006
Hybridomas, RampArt, Whitechapel, London. 2005
Seeing Things, Showing with Tim Braden, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. 2005
Ancoats Hospital Outpatients, group show (DJ Simpson, David Burrows, Simon Morley, Chantal Joffe, Martin Westwood) The Nunnery Gallery, London. 2004
Visions at the Nunnery, the nunnery gallery, Bow, London. 2002
Field of Vision, Penwith, Cornwall. 2002
Super 8 Station, Station, Bristol. 2002
Obsessions, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. 2001
PALPitations, PALP. The Old Telephone Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall. 2001
Conceptual Interiors, Royal Beatrice Gallery, Southampton. 2001
Transition, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. 2000
Right Here Right Now, YOTA showcase, Watershed, Bristol. 2000
Margherita, SW Arts, Year of the Artist, touring show including venues Eden Project, Cornwall, Watershed Bristol. 2000
Remote, Art today Foundation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 2000
Critics Choice, selected by Charlotte Mullings, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. 2000
Dividing Lines, Newlyn Society of Artists, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. 1999
NSA, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 1998
Return of the Showgirls, The Workstation, Sheffield. 1998
Sculptural Objects, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, Devon. 1997
Light/Weight, Peninsular Program as part of St Ives International�s
A Quality of Light in association with TATE St Ives, Cornwall. 1997
Mavis Goes Shopping, International Women�s Week, London wide exhibition, Camden High Street, London. 1997
After Eden, Ikon Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. 1996
Critics Choice, selected by Sacha Craddock, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. 1996
Small Objects of Desire, The City Gallery, Leicester. 1996
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Tessa Garland is a visual artist and curator based in London. She has exhibited extensively, in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Internationally. For many years she produced installation work that also encompassed the use of the moving image. For the past two years, she has produced a series of short artist films which have been well received, most recently at the MACVAL Contemporary Art Museum, Paris, The ICA and The Whitechapel Gallery, London.
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.
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Arts Council England, exhibition award Visions in the Nunnery, 2007
ALIAS, Arts Council South West, Research Grant, CST. 2004
National Touring Award, ACE, Coal Salt Tin, PALP. 2003
National Touring Research and Development Award, ACE. 2003
Individual Artists Award, (Major), SWA. 2002
Regional Arts Lottery Award, PALP. 2002
Travel Award, SWA, PALP. 2001
Awards for All, Lottery grant, PALP. 2001
SWMDA, South West Media Development Agency Exhibition Grant. 2001
Penwith District Council, Exhibition Grant. PALP. 2001
South West Arts, Year of the Artist Award. 2000
ALIAS South West Arts, Research Grant. PALP. 2000
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Drawing on Life, (Making participatory installation) at The Wellcome Trust, Collaboration with Albert Potrony. Organised by The Wellcome Trust,The Big Draw and The Bow Arts Trust 2008
Tested to Destruction; Animation, BBC 1 Despatches, Panarama programme, Director Terry Tyldesley 2008
Collaboration with Dr Pat Healey, Interaction, Media, and Communication Research Group, interactive drawing workshops for Ph D students within the university. Funded by the Wellcome Trust Organised by The Bow Arts Trust and Queen Mary University; 2007/2008
One Cell Made Me; The creation of content for QMUL art/ science DVD for CS4FN magazine,(circulation of 6,000).Lead artist and director. Funded by The Wellcome Trust. 2008
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PureScreen 21: Follywood, Castlefield Gallery, Laura Steadman Trafford Metro News Manchester 2008
Zombie, East End Film Festival, London, The Independent, Charlotte Cripps
April 2007
Visions in the Nunnery, AN Magazine Cinzia Cremona, July 2007,
Betrayed by the Senses, Time Out, Sara O�Reilly. March 2006
Art In Romney Marshes, Catalogue. 2005
AN magazine, Alan Bleakley. Jan 2003
Evening Standard, Ancoats Hospital, Outpatients, Nunnery, London. Feb 2004
Art Monthly, (exhibiton supplement) Field of Vision. July 2002
Breaking The Barriers, YOTA National Magazine. June 2000 - May 2001
PROOF Magazine, SWA, Ed Krcma. Autumn 2001
AN Magazine, Stephen Palmer, Margherita. September 2000
ALIAS publication, (Artist Led Initiative Advisory Service). Editors Jo Leahy, Neil Walker. August 2000
Yearbook 2000, South West Arts, Year of the Artist. June 2000
Folio, (Bristol) No.43 NSA at RWEA. 1998
Venue, (Bristol) No.423 NSA at RWEA. 1998
Big Issue, (London) Mavis Goes Shopping. March 1997
Make, womens Arts Magazine Amanda Sebestyen, No76, Mavis Goes Shopping. 1997
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