Tiana Jefferies is a Meanjin-based artist working predominantly in sculpture. Her interdisciplinary practice explores materials and structures that mediate human and non-human intimacies. Her works often borrow visual language from playground equipment, camping gear and wetland structures such as bird hides. These materials and visual cues are rearranged to imagine structures for ecological and queer intimacies to form. Intersecting interests in queer theory and irreverent ecocriticism have guided her practice to more deeply consider questions of disposition, feeling and affect.
Jefferies graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art in 2018, during which, she participated in a study exchange at Edinburgh College of Art learning traditional casting processes. In 2021, she completed a Master of Philosophy in Creative Practice at the Queensland University of Technology, receiving the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize for Experimental Practice. Recent exhibitions include those at The Old Lock Up, Wreckers Art Space, Metro Arts, The Walls and the accompanying exhibition to Sydney College of Arts’ Birds and Language conference. She is currently artist in residence at the Hope Street Studio in South Brisbane, facilitated by the Griffith University Art Museum.
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
SoloExhibitions
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
GroupExhibitions
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
2021 Dorothy Birt Memorial Art Prize, Queensland University of Technology
2018 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Queensland College of Art
Residenciesand Workshops
2022 positive impressions of negative space workshop, The Old Lock Up,Maroochydore (with Helen Hardess)
2020 A Positive Take on Negative Space workshop – ‘The Shed’ at The OldMuseum
2020 Sculptors Queensland Residency
2019 House Conspiracy Residency