Artist Talk: Tania Kovats
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Woodlane Lecture Theatre, University College Falmouth
in collaboration with MA Art Lectures at University College Falmouth
After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. Her work deals primarily with the experience and understanding of landscape. Her sculptural forms and drawings are pre-occupied with the earth’s shifting geology. She has commented: ‘The processes and verbs of geology inform my work: eroding, shifting, erupting, compressing, solidifying, subsiding, tipping, and cooling. I look to either describe or use geological processes in the making of both my sculptures and my drawings.’
Her recent successes include a travelling meadow and the prestigious commission, to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, to create a permanent work in London’s Natural History Museum.
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