tanya garside

21 July - 31 August 2007

After Graduating from ANU School of Art Tanya moved to Sydney where she continues to explore painting using the internet as her main source of material. Tanya's current work explores images that are posted on You Tube and other internet sites where people want to share their experiences.

The speed at which culture is reinventing itself through technology seems almost preternatural. Via the internet we can view an image and be told a story on any topic from anywhere in the world. It is this process from which Tanya sources her material. Tanya's atmospheric paintings are inspired by digital images and this greatly affects her painting style and method. A painting might begin with a blurred photograph, or a blown up web image and it is from this point where she begins her own personal understanding and interpretation of someone else's story.

Facilitating You Tube Tanya connects with other people's experiences and through this connection a mosaic of multiple relationships is created, none of them wholly fixed. Responding to these stories Tanya recreates her own interpretation of what she sees and through this process she enters a dialogue - a visual dialogue. Possessing a very hazy and misty quality Tanya's work leaves us uncertain as to the time of day and it is through a lack of clarity and what she leaves out that gives her paintings their strength and appeal.

The internet's power to communicate globally is an extraordinary tool; a tool which Tanya constantly exploits. Any sight is a sum of different glimpses and so our reality of that includes the painter's efforts to perceive it; therefore the viewer and the image are part of the same territory. Reality, is in short, interaction. This new way of seeing and experiencing is pivotal to our human consciousness.

Education

2004-2006		BA Visual, ANU School of Art
2003		Certificate IV Fine Arts, Western Sydney TAFE
2002		Skills and Practices in Fine Arts, Western Sydney TAFE
1986		Art and Design Practices, Townsville TAFE

Exhibitions

2007		Annabel Wallace Gallery Douglas Gap Rd, Murringo, NSW
2006		ANU Graduate Exhibition ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT Amnesty International Exhibition The Front Gallery, Lyneham, ACT
2005		ANU Art School Drawing Prize ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, ACT
2003		Student Exhibition, May and August Western Sydney TAFE, Penrith NSW Mini 3D Student and Teacher Exhibition Western Sydney TAFE, Penrith NSW

Awards

2006

ANU EASS Patrons Award