Tania Kovats
Works available
Sunk
1999
Acrylic composite, MDF
110 × 60 x 60 cm / 3ft7 5/16 × 1ft11 5/8 × 1ft11 5/8 ins
Biography
Tania Kovats trained at Newcastle Polytechnic and completed her MA at the RCA in 1990. Her work deals with the experience and understanding of landscape. Her sculptures are often made as a response to what she refers to as 'geologically explicit landscapes' where the narrative evidence of processes such as erosion, shifting, eruption, compression and subsidence can be clearly seen. She is primarily a sculptor but drawing has become an increasingly important element of her practice. One recent project involved mapping around 2000 individual, rock outcrops or islands that surrounds mainland Britain resulting in a series of drawings on translucent paper. Tania Kovats was Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Oxford University 2006.
Recent Solo shows include: MEADOW – The transportation of a wild flower meadow from Bath to London via the canals and inland waterways of the UK. Summer 2006, Offshore – Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall 2004, Offshore – Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales 2004. Recent group shows include, Still Life – New Art Centre, Salisbury 2006, You'll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference – Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition 2006, Repatriating The Ark – the Museum of Garden History, London 2006, International Waters – Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco 2006, Art at The Rockface – Norwich City Art Gallery 2006.