Anne Tallentire

Anne Tallentire's artistic practice spans moving image, sculpture, installation, performance, and photography.

Biography of Anne Tallentire

Anne Tallentire was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1949. She studied Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art.

Since 1993, Tallentire has collaborated with artist John Seth as part of the duo 'work-seth/tallentire.' Additionally, she co-organizes the traveling event series 'hmn' with Chris Fite-Wassilak.

In 2018, the artist received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists, and in 2022, she was honored with a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. She is also Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s until 2014.

Her solo exhibitions have been held at various galleries and museums worldwide, including Cromwell Place in London, John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, The MAC in Belfast, Hollybush Gardens in London, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, among other esteemed venues. 

Anne Tallentire's works have been featured in numerous group shows, including "Drawing Biennial" at The Drawing Room in London (2024) and "Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990" at Tate Britain in London (2023). 

Currently, the artist lives and works in London, UK.

Anne Tallentire's Famous Works

"Area" (2020) features a series of rectangular MDF panels dispersed across the gallery walls. This installation expands on a 2018 project of the same name exhibited at Grazer Kunstverein. The dimensions and colors of the panels are derived from furniture items used communally in a social housing complex in Graz, which were brought there by the residents for shared use.

"From, in and with" (2015) is a series of twenty-four photographs commissioned for an exhibition curated by Val Connor for The Women’s Council of Ireland. The project evolved from descriptions given by six women architects in Dublin, which Tallentire used to photograph buildings during a city walk.

Anne Tallentire's Art Style

Tallentire’s work explores everyday materials and structures through visual and textual analysis to uncover the systems that influence the built environment and labor economics. Her recent projects focus on geographical dislocation and the boundaries of infrastructure. By documenting both her own actions and those of others, Tallentire interrogates the processes of mapping and naming, as well as the interplay between specific and general elements, social control, and urban activities.