Tiana Jefferies is a spatial artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation. Her practice is driven by the entangled relationships between people, architecture and climate. Shaped by the locality and specificity of place, her works emerge from experimentation with camping equipment, traditional sculptural materials, and found building items. Informed by intersections of queer theory and ecocriticism, Jefferies desires to evoke an emotional ambiance through theatrical suggestions of structures and shelters. Populated with camp materials, ideas and fantasies, Jefferies’ installations delight in ironic slippages and glimmer with joyful degeneracy. These temporary shelters imagine sites of play and pleasure, allowing new unarticulated worlds to unfold.
Jefferies holds a BFA from the Queensland College of Art, during which, she participated in a study exchange at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2021, she completed a MPhil in Creative Practice at the Queensland University of Technology, receiving the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize for Experimental Practice. Recent exhibitions include those at Metro Arts, Outer Space and Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Past residencies include Sculptor's Queensland, Hope Street Studio (Griffith University Art Museum) and most recently GlogauAIR, Berlin.
Contact: tiana.jefferies1@gmail.com
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Education
2021 Master of Philosophy (Creative Practice), Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane
2018 Bachelor of Visual Arts. Queensland College Art, Brisbane
2016 Study Exchange, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Open Studio, GlogauAIR,Berlin
2023 teetering, tittering, titsup, Metro Arts
2022 Works from the Hope StreetStudio, Town Square Vitrines, Fish Lane
2021 like a spectre, but you can feel it, Wreckers Artspace, Brisbane
2020 holding hands with the kerbside, QUT Kelvin Grove
2019 Cavitation, Dumb Dumb ARI, Brisbane
2016 Celebrate/Commemorate, The Project Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Reflections, YarraSculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2022 SUPERCUT 3, OuterSpace, Brisbane
2022 entwined as others, The Old Lock Up, Maroochydore (with Helen Hardess)
2021 Birds and Language, Sydney College of Art (with Helen Hardess, curatedby Madeleine Kelley)
2021 Excerpts, The Block, Brisbane
2020 WildWalls, The Walls Art Space, Gold Coast
2020 {dys} functional, Outer Space, Brisbane (with Alannah Dair)
2020 Eviction Party, Metro Arts, Brisbane (curated by Erika Scott)
2019 New Materiality, House Conspiracy, Brisbane
2017 Sculpture ‘17, Queensland College of Art
2017 River St Studios, Project Gallery, QCA
2017 [working title], POP Gallery, Woolloongabba
Prizesand Awards
2023 The Lord Mayor’s CreativeFellowship, Brisbane City Council.
2022 Redland ArtAwards (finalist)
2021 Dorothy Birt Memorial Art Prize, Queensland University of Technology
2018 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Queensland College of Art
Residencies
2023 GlogauAIR Artist in ResidenceBerlin, October - December
2022 Hope Street Studio Residency,facilitated by Griffith University Art Museum and ARIA Property Group
2020 Sculptors Queensland Residency
2019 House Conspiracy Residency