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19/5/2011

Tessa Farmer

Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London

Tessa Farmer is an artist and enchanted entomologist, who endears herself to the researcher, explorer and natural historian alike. Her work presents a fluttering, cluttering aesthetic of fairy creatures and magical taxidermy. This exhibition takes its name from Michael Drayton’s seventeenth century fairy poem of the same title, Nymphidia. A thorough read through reveals its innate appeal to Farmer, whose art is likewise bursting at the seams with curiosities, literary references and art historical allusions. Indeed the fantastical, other-worldly imaginations of Shakespeare, Bosch, Machen and Conan Doyle have all been mentioned in relation to her work.

For her first solo show in the gallery, Tessa Farmer has created a series of free standing works involving highly detailed mises-en-scène where fairies (made from plant roots and insect parts) are engaged in ferocious battles against their principal enemy, the hornets.

Tessa Farmer was born in Birmingham in 1978. She received a BFA and MFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. In 2004 she was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and in 2007 she was Artist in Residence at The Natural History Museum, London. Recent exhibitions include Dead or Alive at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Monanism at The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; and Newspeak: British Art Now at the Saatchi Gallery, London.

For more information please go to www.daniellearnaud.com

Tessa Farmer will also be showing at the Crypt Gallery from 26 May 2011 as part of a collaboration with Amon Tobin for the release of his new album ISAM: Control over Nature

Private View: Friday 20 May 6 - 9 pm

Danielle Arnaud
123 Kennington Road - London
Fri, Sat & Sun 2-6pm (or by appointment)

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