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Tanya Axford was born in Kent, UK and now lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Axford’s work plays on our familiarity with and expectation of everyday situations and materials. Conjuring playful installations, performances and video works, she offers the viewer an unexpected ‘escape’ from the routine of everyday life by harnessing its very characteristics, meticulously orchestrating mundane objects and events into captivating artworks that celebrate the unsung potential of the ‘ordinary’.
Axford completed a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle University and an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London and is currently represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.
Exhibitions and Residencies include: ‘Tomorrow the Future’, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton; ‘All my Favourite Singers couldn’t Sing…’, Workplace Gallery, Newcastle; ‘Hand me Down’, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh (cross artform collaboration); ‘Camberwell Arts Festival’, Camberwell, London; ‘The B-side’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (solo); ‘View Halloo’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (solo); ‘The Interval’, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick (solo) ; ‘Babel’s Folly’, Locus+, Newcastle. She has also taken part in a number of residencies and fellowships both nationally and internationally and her work has been collected by both the Government Art Collection and the UBS Collection.
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Ganwyd Tanya Axford yng Nghaint ac mae’n byw ac yn gweithio yn Newcastle upon Tyne.
Mae gwaith Axford yn manteisio ar ein cynefindra â sefyllfaoedd a deunyddiau bob dydd, a’n disgwyliadau ohonynt. Gan greu gosodiadau, perfformiadau a gwaith fideo chwareus, mae’n cynnig ‘dihangfa’ annisgwyl i’r gwyliwr o drefn arferol bywyd bob dydd drwy harneisio’i nodweddion, a threfnu gwrthrychau a digwyddiadau cyffredin a di-nod mewn ffordd gelfydd yn weithiau celf hudolus sy’n dathlu potensial di-glod y ‘cyffredin’.
Cwblhaodd Axford BA mewn Celfyddyd Gain ym Mhrifysgol Newcastle ac MA mewn Celfyddyd Gain yng Ngholeg Goldsmiths, Llundain ac ar hyn o bryd, mae’n cael ei chynrychioli gan Oriel Workplace,
Gateshead.
Ymhlith ei harddangosfeydd a’i chyfnodau preswyl mae: ‘Tomorrow the Future’, Oriel Fishmarket, Northampton; ‘All my Favourite Singers couldn’t Sing…’, Oriel Workplace, Newcastle; ‘Hand me Down’, Gwyl Caeredin, Caeredin (cydweithrediad ar draws ffurfiau celf); ‘Gwyl Gelfyddydau Camberwell’, Camberwell, Llundain; ‘‘The B-side’, Oriel Gelf Grundy, Blackpool (unigol); ‘View Halloo’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (unigol); ‘The Interval’, Oriel Gymnasium Berwick, Berwick (unigol) ; ‘Babel’s Folly’, Locus+, Newcastle. Bu hefyd yn artist preswyl sawl gwaith ac mae ganddi gymrodoriaethau, yn genedlaethol ac yn rhyngwladol ac mae ei gwaith yng nghasgliadau Celfyddydau’r Llywodraeth a Chasgliad UBS.
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