Tessa Farmer
EXHIBITED AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY
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Tessa Farmer
Swarm
2004
Mixed media
Vitrine: 208.3 x 243.8 x 68.6 cm |
 
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Made from desiccated insect remains, dried plant roots, and other organic ephemera, Tessa Farmer’s tiny sculptures give a glimpse into the world of fairies. No story book land of Tinkerbells, Farmer’s Swarm envisions the purveyors of mischief and magic as an actual species, as animalistic and Darwinian as any other. Exchanging Victorian romanticism for the darker pragmatism of science, Farmer evidences her specimens as fearsome skeletal fiends, plausible “hell’s angels” of a microscopic apocalypse. Posed in dramatic battle formations, Farmer’s menagerie wages war against garden variety pests; each figure, painstakingly hand crafted and adorned with real insect wings, stands less than 1 cm tall. |
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Tessa Farmer's BIOGRAPHY
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1978
Born in Birmingham, UK
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
2007
Little Savages, Natural History Museum, London
Infestation, Assembly:Art in the bar, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
2006
The Terror, Firstsite, Colchester
2004
New Work, Museum of Oxford
2003
Kalmthout Arboretum, Belgium
2002
Touch Wood, Rochester Art Gallery, following Stour Valley Arts residency
1999
Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, Oxford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Newspeak, British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2008
The Animal Gaze, London
Group show, Danielle Arnaud, London
Wrap Your Troubles in a Dream, Lautom, Oslo (curated by Power Ekroth)
In Transit Ladbroke Grove London (commissioned by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to make site specific work for Portobello Road)
Animal Magic, Eleven, London
Tatton Park Biennial, Knutsford, (May- September)
Locked In, The Visible Casino, Luxembourg
Gothic, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2007
The Future Can Wait, London
Les Fleurs du Mal, Primo Alonso, London ( curated by John Stark)
Growing Wild, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (curated by Jane Neal)
Am Schlimmsten nicht im Sommer sterben, Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
2006
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, COMA, Berlin
Shibboleth, Dilston Grove Southwark Park, London
Obsession, Sartorial Art, London
The Mouse That Roared, Project 133, Peckham
Where The Wild Things Are, with Laura Youngson Coll, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
London Art Fair, Projects Area, Clapham Art Gallery
New Figurative Realism, Clapham Art Gallery
International Arts Pestival, London Wetland Centre
Repatriating The Ark, Museum of Garden History
Miniature Worlds, Jerwood Space
2005
Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS) Bursary Exhibition
Zoo Art Fair, with Museum 52
Berliner Liste Art Fair, with Clapham Art Gallery
The Unlimited Dream Company, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Radar, Empire Gallery, London
Thinking the Unthinkable, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
New Sculpture, Museum 52, Redchurch Street, London
The Young Ones, Said Business School, Oxford
2004
Forever Beautiful, Clapham Art Gallery, London
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Curve Gallery, Barbican
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, The Coach Shed, Liverpool
Il Casa delle Ombres (House of Shadows), Antiquariato di Germana Cavalli, Tuscany
2003
Ruskin MA Show
Seedy Rushes, University of Oxford Botanic Gardens
2002
Tweede Natuur, Lia Schelkens Sculpture Gallery, Antwerp
2000
Ruskin School Degree Show
Magdalen College Oxford
1999
BILDUNG, Edinburgh Festival, Chessels Gallery
Look Both Ways, Pembroke College, Oxford
The Pirye Prize (short-listed), Oxford University Press
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