Tessa Garland

Tessa Garland

Tessa Garland is a practicing visual artist and curator based in London. She has exhibited extensively, in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Internationally since 1990. 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.

News: Tessa will be showing her work at the film festival, Les inattendus, Lyon, France in January 2010.

For more information contact tessa@garland33.fsnet.co.uk