Tessa Garland is a London based artist who trained as a sculptor and now shows her work in a variety of media but predominantly in moving image.

Garland uses cinematic language to create real and part fictional places that evoke anxiety or the ever present threat of disaster. Eclectic mixes of filmic devices are employed, such as using scale models, lighting and sound effects. Early science fiction films that play with notions of the everyday and collective fear influence the work.

Her work has recently been shown at the ICA and the Whitechapel Gallery London, Spacex Gallery Exeter, Les Inattendus Lyons, MACVAL Contemporary Art Musuem and Rencontres International Paris, France.

Tessa Garland is the co-curator and organiser for the international moving image event ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, The Nunnery Gallery, London. She has been in receipt of numerous arts grants and awards both to develop her own practice and to curate and organise exhibitions and events across the UK.