Tania Kovats' practice encompasses sculpture, installation, drawing and time-based works exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. She is interested in the process of drawing and mapping. Recent works have included Meadow where she moved a wildflower meadow from Bath to London via the inland waterways systems; The Museum of the White Horse, a travelling landscape museum; Tree, a permanent installation for the Natural History Museum; and Rivers where she collected the water from one hundred rivers around the UK, housing her water collection in a boat house in Scotland. Kovats' work often addresses the role of landscape in the formation of identity. Her current work involves a network of people globally collecting water from all the world's seas. She is also preparing her second drawing publication, Drawing Water.
MA Royal College of Art 1988-90
BA Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne 1985-88
Galapagos, CAM, Lisbon 2013
Rivers, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh 2012
Egde of the World, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 2010
A Duck for Mr Darwin, Baltic, Gateshead 2009
You'll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, 2006
Offshore, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall 2004
Landscape, British Council International Touring Exhibition 2001
At Sea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool 2001
LOST Curated by Tania Kovats at the IKON gallery, Birmingham 2000
Birch, CAS Commission for Cicely Saunders Institue, King's College, London 2012
Guilbenkian Artist Residency Program, Galapagos, Equador 2009
Tree, Darwin Bicentenary Commission, the Natural History Museum 2009
Visiting Fellow, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford 2006
Henry Moore Drawing Fellowship, UWE Bristol 2004-05
Making something together and sharing ideas.
ArtScapers have explored co-creating by planning a cityscape, creating an exhibition, making up enormous numbers together.
