I am a London-based visual artist and educator, originally from Cornwall and later based in Brighton. My practice explores the body as a site of mediation in how we experience, move through, and relate to landscape.
My work moves between collecting, restaging, and intervention, often working with sculptural forms and research materials such as instructional guides for creative and outdoor practices. These approaches extend into my work as a facilitator, where I am particularly interested in strategies for unearthing informal knowledge and developing speculative ideas around place, using making, performance, and shared enquiry as tools for collective sense-making.
Recent exhibitions include Where We Meet (Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 2025), developed as part of Queer Grounds, a young people’s programme supported by Photoworks; (un)common outcomes (Photoworks Festival, 2024); and The Natural, Rural and Remote with Garden Recordings (solo exhibition, Serchia Gallery, 2023). My first book, Let’s Sketch the Lay of the Land, was published by September Books in 2020.
Current projects (Autumn / Winter 2025)
Co-facilitating the SEN programme at Camden Art Centre in partnership with Actionspace, with Immanuel Adelowo and Henny Arnold Shaw
Facilitating Queer Grounds, an LGBTQ+ photography group with Photoworks
Leading creative walking workshops with Imperial Health Charity, alongside the development of a resource with designers DESIGN, PRINT, BIND
Programme Assistant on the EPQ in Photography at The Photographers’ Gallery
Previous roles and projects
Facilitated a three-year workshop programme with the Royal Academy’s Communities Programme and Look Ahead, working with adults in supported living accommodation
Facilitated Peer Matters, an artist development programme for 13 lens-based artists, and the public programme (un)common outcomes at The Photoworks Weekender
Associate Artist for Leap Then Look’s Play, Interact, Explore programme from 2022 to 2023
Alongside the above, I have collaborated with Camden Art Centre, The Dartington Trust, Henry Moore Studios, Queer Heritage South, Aspex Portsmouth, Towner Gallery, The Hummingbird Project, LGBTQ+ Switchboard, and English Heritage’s Shout Out Loud.
I am a member of Artist Union England and embed trauma-informed approaches into my practice, having completed three trainings over the past three years, most recently with Kazzum Arts in March 2025.
Image above from 'Image Climbing Frames' looking at gestural points in which legs and hands meet to make human climbing frames as part of a commissioned workshop for Corridor, In This Place, April 2023.
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The students are still talking about the workshop days later. It was such an engaging, inclusive, calm approach that ensured all of the young people could access it at their level.
Tania Banks / Downsview SEN School Brighton, March 2023 as part of PLAY, INTERACT EXPLORE residency at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.
The LGBTQ+ Photography Club was the first club I'd taken out of school and I was nervous but now it's like a second home - I count down the hours to the next one.
Tilly, Club participant April 2021 - December 2023 Photoworks LGBTQ+ Photography Club