TESSA FARMER

  • News/ Exhibitions
  • Gallery
    • 2024 Insect Enemies
    • 2023 Reimagining The Victorians, Djanogly Gallery
    • 2022 The Intruders
    • 2021 Swarming Fever
    • 2016 The Singing Barrow
    • 2015 The Curious Case of the Furtive Fairies
    • 2015 Step In Stone, Somerset
    • 2015 In FairyLand, The Viktor Wynd Museum
    • 2014 Unwelcome Visitors, Holburne Museum
    • 2014 The Wasp Factory (After Iain Banks)
    • 2013 The Perilous Pursuit of a Python
    • 2013 Mignon, Ambushed by a Mob of Fairies
    • 2013 The Depraved Pursuit of a Possum
    • 2013 Magicicada with David Rothenberg
  • Archive
    • 2012 The Hunt
    • 2012 The Swarm with Elias Hove
    • 2012 Cosmic Cloud
    • 2011 Lafcadio's Revenge with Nina Nicholls and Dana Sherwood
    • 2011 Control Over Nature with Amon Tobin
    • 2011 The Coming of The Fairies
    • 2011 The Interlopers
    • 2010 A Darker Shade of Grey
    • 2008 The Resurrection of the Rat
    • 2007 Little Savages
    • 2004 Swarm
  • Animations
  • Biography/ CV
  • Information/ Press
  • Contact/ Newsletter
  • News/ Exhibitions
    • 2024 Insect Enemies
    • 2023 Reimagining The Victorians, Djanogly Gallery
    • 2022 The Intruders
    • 2021 Swarming Fever
    • 2016 The Singing Barrow
    • 2015 The Curious Case of the Furtive Fairies
    • 2015 Step In Stone, Somerset
    • 2015 In FairyLand, The Viktor Wynd Museum
    • 2014 Unwelcome Visitors, Holburne Museum
    • 2014 The Wasp Factory (After Iain Banks)
    • 2013 The Perilous Pursuit of a Python
    • 2013 Mignon, Ambushed by a Mob of Fairies
    • 2013 The Depraved Pursuit of a Possum
    • 2013 Magicicada with David Rothenberg
    • 2012 The Hunt
    • 2012 The Swarm with Elias Hove
    • 2012 Cosmic Cloud
    • 2011 Lafcadio's Revenge with Nina Nicholls and Dana Sherwood
    • 2011 Control Over Nature with Amon Tobin
    • 2011 The Coming of The Fairies
    • 2011 The Interlopers
    • 2010 A Darker Shade of Grey
    • 2008 The Resurrection of the Rat
    • 2007 Little Savages
    • 2004 Swarm
  • Animations
  • Biography/ CV
  • Information/ Press
  • Contact/ Newsletter
       
     
Gallery / 2024 Insect Enemies
       
     
Gallery / 2023 Reimagining The Victorians, Djanogly Gallery
  The Intruders, 2022   Glass case, antique entomology books, wasp nest, wormshells, crab claws, bones, insects, plant roots, clay  Commissioned for  Insect Odyssey: Insects, books and the artistic Imagination,  Salisbury Museum 2022. Curated by Prud
       
     
Gallery / 2022 The Intruders
  Swarming Fever, 2021   Bones, wormshells, crab claws, taxidermied birds, Portuguese man 'o' war polyps, hedgehog spines, insects, plant roots  Exhibited in:   NatureMAX  at Giant Gallery, Bournemouth, 2021. Curated by Paul Carey-Kent   Once Upon a
       
     
Gallery / 2021 Swarming Fever
 The Singing Barrow (inside a Bincombe Bump) 2016  Originally commissioned by  Artsreach Dorset for 'Field Days'.    Sound by Mark Pilkington  Mixed media including bones, insects, plant roots, taxidermy, fossils, wasp nest, soil, flints, snail shell
       
     
Gallery / 2016 The Singing Barrow
       
     
Gallery / 2015 The Curious Case of the Furtive Fairies
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Gallery / 2015 Step In Stone, Somerset
       
     
Gallery / 2015 In FairyLand, The Viktor Wynd Museum
 Photographs by  Chris Cardwell / Tessa Farmer  A series of missing objects and unexplained breakages suggest that the Holburne Museum is infested. The disruption to the displays has been caused not by clothes moths, carpet beetles or woodworm, but b
       
     
Gallery / 2014 Unwelcome Visitors, Holburne Museum
 Commissioned for  The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention also known as  Loncon  3.  Antique clock, crab claws, worm shells, glassware, venus fly trap, old clock parts, resin, lighter, plastic tubing, bones, insects, arachnids, plant roots.
       
     
Gallery / 2014 The Wasp Factory (After Iain Banks)
 Commissioned for 'The Nature of the Beast', New Art Gallery Walsall. Taxidermy python, crabs, insects, arachnids, bones, wormshells, porcupine spines, wasp nest
       
     
Gallery / 2013 The Perilous Pursuit of a Python
 Commissioned for 'Victoriana' at Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Installed on and around a permanent statue in the gallery.Insects, arachnids, plant roots, bones, wormshells, hedgehog spines.
       
     
Gallery / 2013 Mignon, Ambushed by a Mob of Fairies
 Commissioned for 'Red Queen' at MONA, Tasmania. Insects, arachnids, plant roots, wasp nest, crab claws, crabs, sponge, banksia pod, bones, shark egg case, freeze dried brush tailed possum. Most of the materials were collected in Tasmania.
       
     
Gallery / 2013 The Depraved Pursuit of a Possum
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Gallery / 2013 Magicicada with David Rothenberg