Tanya is currently in her honours year ar DJCAD. She is available for commission and collaboration so if you like what you see, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Tug of Love (cont.)
Further work inspired by the sexual text in Mills & Boon novels. This is a small selection from a range of mixed media observational drawings.
Tug of Love
Triptych produced for an exhibition at DJCAD, Dundee. Inspired by the sexual language in Mills & Boon novels.
Silkscreen prints/mixed media
An unspoken offering
Exploring silkscreen techniques to produce a range of prints with distorted images. The sexual acts depicted in these prints are difficult to understand at first. Ideally, these would be installed with further visuals and audio which would be reflective of the sensory overload of the acts themselves.
These prints are all unique and have each been produced using a range of different translucent inks and gloss.
Bitter Revenge
A critial look at the ‘hero’ in many Mills & Boon novels and how, with surrounding text removed, many worrying snippets of text remain.
Mills & Boon author Violet Winspear said in the 70s that her male characters ‘must frighten and fascinate. They must be the sort of men who are capable of rape’.
The Language of Flowers
An image inspired by the secret message and symbolism of flowers.
Lovers used to send each other coded messages using the flowers, their colours and where they are placed in the posy to display meaning.
Sea Shells
Some drawings from a month long project looking at the methods of collection.
Every day for ten days I went to Broughty Ferry beach and collected the items that landed in a 1m x 1m square of sand. These items were then measured, filed and logged in a database. At the end of the collection period, the results were analysed to reveal that mussels were the most common item collected, with over 60%. From this I produced a series of drawings exploring the patterns and coloured present in these mussels.
Piano
A series of monoprints produced for a project based around the physical appearance of the piano and emotional connections attached.
Medicinal Curiosities
Lithograph prints coloured with chine-collé made in response to a project set to promote the Tayside Medical History Museum. This is a series of six prints, each coloured slightly differently, two of which are now part of the University of Dundee museum collections and the Duncan of Jordanstone print archive. Also available for sale.
