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.