Tania Rutland

Biography

Tania Rutland, Contemporary Artist

Tania was born in 1967, in London. She now lives in Brighton, where she moved to after
graduating from the Royal College of Art and has had her studio there for over
twenty years.
Rutland has exhibited her work in numerous galleries both in the UK and internationally. She has also completed many commissions for both
commercial projects and private collections.

Tania Rutland specialises in semi abstract landscapes of Sussex and the beautiful South Downs
countryside. Her preferred mediums are oil painting, etching and pencil/graphite on
paper. Her fascination with the way in which generations of human activity has, down the
years, shaped the landscape of the countryside of both East Sussex and West Sussex is
visible within her work. She is drawn to what is left behind through the consequence of
human presence.

In this ‘humanised countryside’ her work captures through the various patterns and
repetitions of tracks and paths, the kind that cut through a field or hill. She is drawn to
the detritus abandoned by human enterprise; the disused paths, broken fences, desire
lines that have slowly formed over time, maybe over hundreds of years either by animal
grazing or the movement of people through the landscape.

The imagery is a mixture of memory/ remembrance, drawn or photographed features,
to a source material of something more tangible and real, e.g. pattern or marks left
behind from a deliberate application on to the surface of the paint. To thus possibly
resemble veils or faded banners. If not so deliberate, it could suggest a hint of something
by impressions appearing by uncovering or a sense of it being worn away to reveal
something forgotten.

The constant flux of weather, movement of people in different shapes and guises over
several thousand years have shaped and formed these landscapes, it is this that holds
her attention and the constant fascination.

Tania Rutland's artworks for sale

Tania's artworks are available for sale in person at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery in London or online.

Recent Exhibitions

EDUCATION

1991 - Royal College of Art - MA.
1989 - West Surrey College of Art & Design - BA.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2019 - Chip of flint - Fragment of chalk, Exhibition, Phoenix Arts Space, Brighton.
2019 - Desire Lines, Exhibition, Hicks Gallery, London.
2012 - Hart Gallery, London.
2011 - Hart Gallery, London.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 - Spring exhibition, Stapleford granary, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Cambridge.
2022 - Winter exhibition, Lucinda Dalton Gallery, London.
2022 - Sussex contemporary open, Brighton.
2022 - Spring, 35 North contemporary Fine Art, Brighton.
2022 - Spring exhibition, Lucinda Dalton Gallery, London.
2021 - Christmas show, Hicks Gallery, London.
2021 - Winter exhibition, Lucinda Dalton Gallery, London.
2020 - Forces of Nature – Glyndebourne.
2019 - A Walk Round Cissbury Ring, Worthing Museum.
2019 - Women can paint, St. Peter's Church. Brighton Festival.
2018 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London.
2018 - Autumn show, Josie Eastwood Gallery, Hampshire.
2017 - A Walk on Mount Caburn - 4 artists. Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2017 - Bellwood & Wright, Lancaster.
2017 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London.
2016 - Discerning Eye, London.
2016 - Bashall Barn Gallery, Lancashire.
2015 - Tania Rutland and Caroline Yates, Hicks Gallery, London.
2015 - Natural Histories, Four Square Fine Arts, London.
2014 - Small Wonders, Four Square Fine Arts, London.
2013 - Ulan Taylor Contemporary Art, Bangkok.
2013 - 32 Paintings, Phoenix gallery, Brighton.
2012 - Genius Loci, Four Square Fine Arts, London.
2012 - Conflicts of Interest, H Gallery, Bangkok.
2011 - Pushing Print, Margate.
2011 - Group Show, Hart Gallery, London.
2010 - Favourites, Gallery One, Grayshott.
2007 - Group Show, Hart Gallery, London.
2007 - Jointure Studios, Ditchling.
2006 - Frances Burrows Gallery, Birmingham.
2006 - Beautiful Landscapes, Nicholas Bowlby, London.
2003 - Chichester Open, Chichester.
1996-97 - Large Edition, touring show.

1996 - Hardware Gallery, London.
1996 - Contemporary Art Society, London.
1996 - Insight, Maidstone.
1993 - National Print Exhibition, London.
1993 - 3D Printmaking, Nottingham.
1992 - Young Artist South East, London.
1992 - Southbank Picture Show, London.

ART FAIRS
2021–23 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea.
2008-15 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea.
2012-14 - Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead.
2013 - Affordable Art Fair, Sweden.
2012 - Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam.
2008-12 - London Art Fair.
2010-15 - 20-21 International Art Fair, London.
2006 - Chelsea Art Fair, London.
2005-12 - Brighton Art Fair.

FELLOWSHIPS
1994-95 - Cheltenham Fine Art Fellowship, Cheltenham Art College.

AWARDS
2022 - Shortlisted for the Jackson Painting Prize.
2012 - Peer Prize Award, Brighton Art Fair.
1992 - Princes Trust Award.
1991 - Sericol Screenprint Award.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 - Geoff Hand, Exhibition Review, Ruminations.
2019 - Brian Curtin, Exhibition Review, Desire Lines.
2017 - Epic Intimacy, Printmaking Today.
2012 - Duncan Bullen, Exhibition Review.
2014 - Living etc.