Tessa Farmer

The Perilous Pursuit of a Python (detail) taxidermy python, crabs, insects, arachnids, bones, wormshells, porcupine spines, wasp nest 2013

Biography

Tessa Farmer was born in 1978 in Birmingham and lives and works in London. She studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, The University of Oxford where she received a BFA and an MFA. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is in many collections including those of The Saatchi Gallery, London, The David Roberts Collection, London and The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania.

In 2007 she was artist in residence at the Natural History Museum in London. and was nominated for The Times/ Southbank Show Breakthrough Award. In 2011 she was awarded a Kindle Project 'Makers Muse' Award.

Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition Unwelcome Visitors at The Holburne Museum, Bath; The Nature of the Beast at New Art Gallery Walsall; Victoriana at Guildhall Art Gallery, London and Red Queen at MONA, Tasmania.

Curriculum vitae

Exhibitions: Nymphidia 2011, Riddle me 2008

Press

SELECTED WORKS

Step in Stone

2015, Somerset. Photo: Duncan Simey

Step in Stone (detail)

2015, Somerset. Photo: Duncan Simey

In FairyLand

2015, The Viktor Wynd Museum

In FairyLand

2015, The Viktor Wynd Museum

Unwelcome Visitors

2014, Holburne Museum

Unwelcome Visitors (detail)

2014, Holburne Museum

The Wasp Factory (After Iain Banks)

2014, Antique clock, crab claws, worm shells, glassware, venus fly trap, old clock parts, resin, lighter, plastic tubing, bones, insects, arachnids, plant roots. Commissioned for The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention also known as Loncon 3

The Perilous Pursuit of a Python

2013, taxidermy python, crabs, insects, arachnids, bones, wormshells, porcupine spines, wasp nest. Commissioned for The Nature of the Beast, New Art Gallery Walsall.

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