Tia Taylor Berry
Degree: MFA
University: Newcastle University
Graduation Year: 2023
New Blood Art Commentary
Spotlight: Tia awarded the Freelands Foundation Studio Fellowship
Tia Taylor Berry paints the texture of the mind. The broadly sensed motion of ideas, feelings and substance are rendered in a carefully curated colour palette, of subtle vitality. The absorption of the painter is evident in her process of mark-making, and harmonising the geometric forms. Plato identified five 3-D shapes he maintained were the basis of stability for the whole universe; above his famous Academy for philosophers he had the words set Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here. The spiritual geometry of this artist's paintings is more egalitarian, based on an openness to unknowing as much as knowing.
These works speak to contemporary artist Frank Stella’s renowned geometric abstractions – but as they developed later in his career into more free flowing works. Taylor Berry’s aesthetic is one of deep involvement: that of the artist in making, that of the viewer in participating; an effective synchronicity achieved through balance, proportion, scale. Suspend, expand, transcend: these works provide the structure of the viewer to let go.
Artist Statement
Its all Magick
Tia Maria Taylor Berry is an esoteric arts practitioner living and working in Newcastle Upon Tyne, born 1999 in Northumberland. Tia’s work exists as part of her spiritual practices, exploring her presented notion of spiritual space, dealing with notions of magic and the other. Though specialising in geometric abstraction and large scale installation Tia works across media to join material in the creation of one ‘entity’, an artwork which transcends the limitations of knowingness and conventional understanding into a space otherworldly wonder. Exploring mediumistic techniques the work is created through an experienced shift in state of being, it exists as a recording of Tias connection to and encounters with her presented notion of spiritual space. Within these liminal spaces of the works creation Tia connects with that beyond the tangible, bridging the chasm between the material and the ethereal.
Solo Exhibitions
(2023) Ethereal Realm, The Atrium, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
Group Exhibitions
(2023) Counterpart - What resides beyond, Newcastle University and The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2023) Magic, Fronteer Gallery, sheffield
(2023) N/A, Blue & Berry, Cheshire
(2023) Viriditas, tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
(2023) Rough draft presents, Beyond, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2023) Start art fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
(2023) Start art fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
(2023) Surface matters, University of Victoria, Canada
(2023) Surface matters, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2022) Mycellium, Newcastle University and The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2022) Quartet, Holden Gallery, manchester
(2022) MFA show Interim, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2022) N/A, Blue & Berry, Cheshire
(2022) All eyes on you, Holden Gallery, Manchester
(2022) Spirit of us, The Long Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2022) Gallagher and Turner, Winter Open show, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle Upon-Tyne
(2021) Mystify, West Art Collective, Manchester