Tabitha Moses
Residency at Beaconhouse National University
I am an artist who explores objects and clothing as carriers of identity, memory and loss, responding to and revealing the histories of people, spaces and places.
I create artefacts from material which bears the weight of memory and the marks of time. Considering the psychic and physical impressions left by previous owners, I re-configure the stained, worn, torn and mended cloth.
The objects I make are tokens of remembrance, souvenirs and relics. Exquisitely hand-stitched, from a distance they appear delicate and seductive, but up close they may induce repulsion. This is achieved through the use of materials such as human hair and stained fabric. The audience is visually seduced and then forced to question the very notion of beauty. It has also been said that in using such materials tenderly I negate their repulsive qualities.
True histories and authentic objects are combined with a sense of theatre and artifice in order to seduce, still or discomfit the spectator.
I have exhibited in museums, country houses and gardens as well as conventional gallery spaces, and enjoy engaging a mixed (art and non-art) audience.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Selected Exhibitions
2006 St. Nicholas Artists’ Residencies. Independents Biennial, Liverpool
2006 Near Distance. Arena Gallery, Independents Biennial, Liverpool
2006 Scholar. National touring exhibition
2006 Art of the Stitch. National touring exhibition
2005 Young British Art. The Castle of Art, Cieszyn, Poland
2005 Expo Live Art Festival. Nottingham
2005 Emerge. Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2005 Triangle International Artists. Nijera Kori, Bangladesh
2004 Bolwick Arts 2. Bolwick Hall, Norfolk
2004 The Dolls, Old Silk Frock and Hairpurse. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
2004 Why Didn’t You Tell Me? Arena Gallery, Liverpool
2003 Arena. Arena Gallery, Liverpool
2002 Echo. Holden Gallery, Manchester
Awards
2006 Arts Council England
2005 Drawing Quarters Symposium Bursary
2003 Embroiderers’ Guild Scholarship
2001 AHRB Postgraduate Study Award
Residencies
2006 St. Nicholas Artist’s Residency. St. Nicholas’ Church, Liverpool
2005 Triangle International Artists’ Workshop. Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh
2004 Bolwick Arts 2. Bolwick Hall, Norfolk
2004 More Than 12 Residency. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Teaching
2005 BAC Fine Art. Liverpool Hope University
2005 Workshop facilitator, ‘Image & Identity’. Manchester Art Gallery
2005 Embroidery teacher for Fine Cell Work. Liverpool Prison
2004-5 MA International Student Support. Manchester Metropolitan University
2004 BA (Hons) Embroidery. Manchester Metropolitan University
2002-3 BA (Hons) Fine Art. Exeter School of Arts & Humanities, University of Plymouth
Education
2002 MA Textiles. Manchester Metropolitan University
1997 HNC Clothing and Fashion. Leeds College of Art and Design
1993 BA (Hons) Multi-Media Textiles. Loughborough College of Art and Design
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"ARTIST'S TALK"
Tabitha Moses talks to conference during cHAT week at Sanskriti, Delhi, India. March 2007
