Guest Curator - What Artists Like 3
Spotlight: Tia awarded the Freelands Foundation Studio Fellowship
Tia’s practice functions as an investigation into what she describes as Unseen space: Something which exists beyond ordinary perceptual awareness, shaped by ideas of the ineffable. Within this conceptual framework, her works operate as speculative cartographies of unseen spaces, recording the architectural structures and presences of these territories. Such investigations occur through acts of drawing, site specific installations and sculptural objects, the results of which are all formally abstract.
Tia’s understanding of unseen space is deeply informed by the intelligences of the natural world. Organic forms and ecological systems become points of resonance through which connections between the human consciousness and the more than human can be experienced.
Central to her methodology is the use of ritualistic processes that facilitate altered states of perception. Approaching making in this way invites intuitive, spiritual, and non-rational forms of knowledge into dialogue with material form. These rituals are understood as transformative technologies, ones capable of mediating between visible and invisible realities. This allows Tia to occupy an intermediary position, recording and engaging with spaces that exist beyond fixed systems of knowledge.
Tia regards her practice as inherently collaborative rather than singular. By positioning herself as a recorder she challenges conventional notions of individual authorship, proposing instead a distributed form of agency shared between Artist, Material and Environment. The work emerges through these intersections, embodying a relational approach to making that acknowledges the interconnectedness of human, natural, and metaphysical worlds.
