TANYA KINGSTON
NDD Atd M.Art MFA(research)
Tanya Kingston was born in Manchester, UK and spent her early years
in Washington DC and Baltimore, USA.
Tanya was schooled later in England and after matriculation she won
a scholarship to study Illustration and
design at Goldsmiths’ London.
This was followed by an Art teachers Diploma at Kings College, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
While raising her family,
she worked as an illustrator/teacher from 1970-1987, and has been nominated
for various Children’s Book Fair awards.
Tanya Kingston was resident artist at the NSW University Atelier of
the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris from
March to July 1997. Since holding her first solo show at the Grace
Brothers Gallery in 1975, her fine art practice
has consisted of large scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures.
Expansive in nature, her painting has developed
around the study of the figure in space, both physical and psychological
space. In recent years she has exhibited
in Paris, Belgium and USA, as well as Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.
Tanya Kingston entered post-graduate study in 1992 and holds a Master
of Art Degree and a Masters’ Research
Degree (MFA) from the University of New South Wales, College of Fine
Arts, Sydney. In March 2001 Tanya was
awarded a fellowship grant to the Vermont Studio Centre, USA as an artist
in residence, which allowed her develop
her ideas to explore spatial abstraction in the work, with the figure
as ‘vector’. February 2003 Tanya was awarded
a residency at the Pouch Cove Artist Studio in Newfoundland, Canada
followed by invited studio residencies at the
Leighton Studios, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, Sydney
Olympic Park Artist residency for three months
and more recently, 'Artists Enclave.' I-Park Connecticut, USA.
The most recent works relate more to abstraction
than figuration.
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