I am a London based artist who trained as a sculptor but now show my work in a variety of media but predominantly in moving image. Using cinematic language I create real and part fictional places, often piecing together recorded footage of journeys through spaces that evoke anxiety or the ever present threat of disaster.

Scale models are often used; in my most recent work Above the Skyline a model has been painstakingly built in miniature and presents a deserted stage set that is strewn with detritus; objects both collected and thrown away, that depict a chaotic disordered place perhaps set in the future. The play of scale and illusion characterise my work, this is aided by using studio lighting to help create a magical transformative place of in-between-ness.

My work has been shown at the ICA ,Whitechapel Art Gallery, Ikon Art Gallery, Spacex Gallery, Les Inattendus Lyons, MACVAL Contemporary Art Musuem and Rencontres International Paris, France. I am the co-curator and organiser for the international moving image event ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, The Nunnery Gallery, London. I have been in receipt of numerous arts grants and awards both to develop my practice and to curate and organise exhibitions and events across the UK.

Films by Tessa Garland