Alana Tyson
Llandudno
Multi-media artist strongly drawn to textiles and their visceral qualities.
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Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.
Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.
Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.
Alana Tyson is represented by Mark Devereux Projects
Education
2002-2006
- Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Distinction in Painting from the Alberta College of Art and Design
Residencies
2014-2015
- Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales
2015
- Textiles/Ceramics Artist in Residence, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2014
- Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, Cumbria
2010
- St[art] @ Art Central Residency, Calgary
2007
- Alberta Printmakers' Society's Artist Residency
Awards & Grants
2014
- Arts Council of Wales Large Grant
- Wales Arts International Venice Bursary
2013
- Arts Council of Wales Research and Development Grant
- a-n Magazine re:View Bursary
2007
- Winner of Heritage Property Corporation Art Competition
- Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
2006
- Ignac and Karla Herskovic Memorial Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2014
- Shades by the Seaside, Bathing Machine Intervention, Llawn02 Festival, Llandudno
2012
- Interior, testbed Oriel Davies, Newtown
2011
- Inscape Cabinet, The New Gallery +15 space, Calgary
- Flow, St[art] @ Art Central, Calgary
2010
- Inscapes, RED Gallery, Hull
2006
- A Contemporary Denial of Death, The Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
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