Tanya Axford
Biography
Born 1973 Maidstone Kent, UK
1993 - 1997 BA(hons) Fine Art University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2004 - 2005 MA Goldsmiths College University of London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006
The B-side, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2005
View Halloo, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2004
The Interval, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery Berwick, UK
2003
Second Dogwatch, Landscape Intervention, North Shields, UK
2001
Forming Attachments, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions Projects
2009
Locws International 4, Swansea, Wales, UK
Breaking Boundaries, Ashford, Kent, UK
2008
Tomorrow the Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
"All my Favourite Singers couldn't Sing…", Workplace Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Hand me Down, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Camberwell Arts Festival, Camberwell, London, UK
Arts Council England, Newcastle, UK
Prism, Designed and Made Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2007
The Inbetween Spaces, Newcastle, UK
The Big M, Programme 3, Berwick, UK, Vlissingen, Holland
2006
Cordial, St Georges Gallery, Folkstone, UK
OMSK, Touring Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, Toronto
2005
Zoo Art Fair, London Zoo, London, UK
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK
MA Show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2004
The Projection Room, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
Multiplus, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
2003
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, UK
Forming Attachments, Liecester Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK
Artsparkle, The Corn Exchange, Leeds, UK
2002
Art and Parts, Workplace temporary Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Untitled, Kielder Forest, Northumbria, UK
3 x 9 is 12, Britart Gallery, London, UK
2001
Prospects 2001, Britart Gallery London, UK
2000
Paint Too, NGCA, Sunderland, UK
LMN, Static Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Playing Fields, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Pattern Transfer, Waygood Gallery Offsite Project, Newcastle, UK
Stuffed, Hancock Museum, Newcastle, UK
Something, VANE, Newcastle, UK
Commissions
2010/2011
Belvedere Collaborative Commission, Arc, The Architecture Centre for Hull and the Humber Region. Working with artist Tanya Axford and landscape architects Whitelaw Turkington to design and implement an artist designed viewing platform
2003
A High of 360 degrees, One North East, Newcastle, UK
Grotto, Queens Hall, Hexham, UK
2001
Babel's Folly, Locus +, Newcastle, UK
Accomplice, NGCA, Sunderland, UK
Residencies Awards Collections
2008
Government Art Collection, London, UK
UBS Collection, Newcastle, UK
2004
Residency, Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate, UK
Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
Wasanii, Gasworks Gallery International Residency, Lamu, Kenya
2002
Becks Futures Nomination, London, UK
Land and the Samling Residency, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK
Encore 10 x 10, ACE Award, Newcastle, UK
2001
Prospects 2001 Art Prize Shortlist, London, UK
Bibliography
2008
Bound, Fully Booked- Cover Art and Design for Books, 2008
Tanya Axford, Judith King, The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships: an archival record, 2008
2005
Mostyn Open Review, Julian Johnson, Arttra, 05, 2005
View Halloo, Jessika Worrall, AN Magazine, 04,2005
2004
Tanya Axford, Isabel Vasseur, Workplace Publication, 12, 2004
2003
Tanya Axford, Abigail Branagan, AN Signpost, 03, 2003
Profile, Hilary Freeman, Guardian, Rise Extra, 02, 2003
Artists Profile, Paul Moss, AN Website, 01, 2003
2002
Three times nine is twelve, Helem Sumpter, Evening Standard, 04, 2002
Land + The Samling, Kielder Sculpture Park, Northumberland.
2001
Accomplice, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 08, 2001
Tanya Axford, Rich Jevons, The North Guide, 08, 2001
Pegging It, Robert Oliver, The Crack, 08, 2001
2000
Playing Fields, Gillian Nicol, AN Magazine, 07, 2000
Painting on the Edge, Robert Clarke, The Guardian Guide, 05, 2000
Goethe's Oak has Woodworm, Art Monthly, 11, 2000