Tania Glanville

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Tasmania in 1961, Tania has taught visual art in Tasmania, the ACT and in the English city of Whitehaven. She has presented her work in many solo exhibitions and known for her personal take on the landscape of Tasmania.

The insular nature of producing artworks appeals to Tania’s character and through the years she has completed commission work, continued her studies of visual art and generated artworks as a natural aspect of her daily life.

Throughout the years, Tania’s artworks have centred around themes of personal memory, and preconceptions. Her concepts have mirrored a life which she would see as conventional but which often questions the existential, playfully considering societal norms and conditions. Her works reflect unobtrusive contemplation and a deep investigation into beauty by an artist who has spent a lifetime reflecting upon its meaning.

She sees her recent works as a homage, in good faith to her visual and physical relationship with the land she lives on. “In creating the work, I both rejoice in the strength of traditional owners, the Trawoolaway people and ache for the cruel losses they have suffered. I’m still working on what it means to be Australian and to exist in a space which I have essentially appropriated. I see this as a shared endeavour and one which must be faced by us all in order to ultimately connect with and care for this land. As time moves forward, connections are created with the quietude of this natural world and its history.  Smell the air, feel the foliage brushing against legs, hear the crunching bush detritus as together we enter a space which has moved under our feet for centuries”.

Tania lives and works in Weymouth on Tasmania’s picturesque North East coast. She has been a recent finalist in both the prestigious Stanthorpe Art Prize and Tasmania’s Bay of Fires Art Prize.

CV

2022- Present, Retired, Practising Artist

2015- 2022 Newstead College, Launceston, Tasmania. Full-time teacher of Art and Photography. (Years 11 and 12)

2010- 2012 Lilydale District School, Tasmania. Teacher of Art, (Years Kinder to 10)

2001- 2010 Ulverstone High School, Tasmania, Head of Visual Art Department. (Years 7-10)

1993- 2000 Lake Tuggeranong College, Canberra, A.C.T, Teacher of Art and Photography (Years 11 and 12)

1999 Whitehaven School, Cumbria, UK, Teacher Exchange, Teacher of Visual Art (Years 7-12)

2013 Masters of Contemporary Art, Launceston Campus, University of Tasmania

1988 Diploma of Education, Hobart Campus Tasmanian University.

1977- 1981 Bachelor of Visual Art, Hobart Campus, University of Tasmania

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 “ON COMMON GROUND” Solo exhibition, Launceston Art Supplies Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston

2023 “BAY OF FIRES ART PRIZE”, Finalist

2021 ‘STANTHORPE ART PRIZE’, Finalist 

2022 – “5 YEARS IN REVIEW” Solo Show “The Gallows”, Launceston College Gallery

2016 – Solo Show, Blue café, Inveresk Launceston

2015 ‘BEYOND THE CLASSROOM’ Group show, Tasmanian University, Inveresk Gallery, Launceston

2014 “CLOSER”, Solo Show, 2015, Brave Gallery, Longford

2013 ‘ICONS FROM THE JOURNEY”, Solo Show, Richie’s Mill, Launceston.

2013 GRADUATE SHOW, Masters Candidates, University of Tasmania, Inveresk Launceston campus.

2010 “THE ULVERSTONE GIRLS”, Solo show, Ulverstone High School Gallery

2006 ‘PERSONAL RETROSPECTIVE’, Solo Show, Ghost rock Vineyard, Port Sorell

2001-2002 “THE TASMANIAN ART COLLECTION”, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place

2001 ‘STAFF ART’’, Ulverstone High School Gallery

1998 “DICHOTOMY”, With artist George Pospisil, Restaurant – Civic, Canberra

1997 “SEPTEMVIRATE” Group show Canberra Civic centre