Tessa Farmer
   

BORN

1978

EDUCATION

2002-2003            Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art:                         MFA in Fine Art
1997-2000            Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art:                         BFA (Hons) in Fine Art (First Class)

EXHIBITIONS

2006                       Dilston Grove, London                                                       Shibboleth
2006                       Sartorial Contemporary Art, London                                Obsession
2006                       Museum of Garden History, London                               Repatriating the Ark
2006                       Jerwood Space, London                                                    Miniature Worlds
2006                       London Wetlands Centre, London                                  International Arts Festival
2006                       CHARLIE SMITH london, London                                    New Figurative Realism
2006                       Project 133, London                                                           The Mouse that Roared
2006                       Firstsite, Colchester                                                           The Terror
2006                       Imperial College, London                                                  Where the Wild Things Are
2005                       Royal British Society of Sculptors, London                    Bursary Exhibition
2005                       The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle                                        The Unlimited Dream Factory                          
2005                       Empire Gallery, London                                                     Radar
2005                       Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland     Thinking the Unthinkable
2005                       Museum 52, London                                                          New Sculpture
2005                       Said Business School, Oxford                                          The Young Ones                
2004                       Museum of Oxford, Oxford                                                 New Work (Solo)
2004                       Clapham Art Gallery, London                                            Forever Beautiful
2004                       The Barbican, London                                                        Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2004                       The Coach Shed, Liverpool                                               Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2004                       Antiquariato di Germana Cavalli, Tuscany                     House of Shadows
2002                       Lia Schelkens Sculpture Gallery ,Antwerp                     Tweede Natuur
2002                       Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester                                     Touch Wood (Solo)

ART FAIRS

2006                       Scope Miami, Miami
2006                       Scope London. London
2006                       Preview Berlin, Berlin
2006                       London Art Fair, London
2005                       Zoo Art Fair, London
2005                       Berliner Liste, Berlin

AWARDS & COMMISSIONS

2005                       RBS Bursary Award
2002                       AHRB Award for Postgraduate Study
2001 (Sep-Nov)   Sculpture residency for Stour Valley Arts in King’s Wood, Challock
2000                       Vivien Leigh Prize, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1999                       Short-listed for Pirye Prize, Oxford University Press
1998-1999            Scholarships to St Edmund Hall, Oxford University
 
COLLECTIONS

Saatchi Collection, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Private Collections in Germany , United Kingdom and United States