Tessa Farmer - CHARLIE SMITH LONDON

Tessa Farmer | Out of the Earth | 2018 | Wormshells, insects, plant roots, bones, polymer clay, earth, crab claws & eyes, hedgehog spines | 22 (d) x 36 (h) cm

Tessa Farmer | The Fairy Ring | 2018 | Polymer clay, insects, bones, plant roots, wormshells, snail shells, hedgehog spines | 40cm(h)x30cm(d)

Tessa Farmer | The Race | 2018 | Polymer clay, insects, plant roots, snail shells, bones, earth, moss | 15 (d) x 21 (h)cm

Tessa Farmer | The Raid | 2018 | Bird’s nest, insects, polymer clay, plant roots | 15 (d) x 21 (h) cm

Tessa Farmer | Infested Lepidotera Collection | 2015 | Insects, plant roots, pins, glass shards | 40x30cm

Biography

Tessa Farmer
Born: 1978
EDUCATION
2002-2003	MFA Fine Art	Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford
1997-2000	BFA (Hons) Fine Art	Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018	Out Of The Earth	Anima Mundi, St Ives
2018	The Fairy Ring	NN Contemporary (offsite interventions), Northampton
2015	In Fairyland	Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Natural History and Fine Art
2015	In Fairyland	Leeds College of Art (Touring)
2014	Unwelcome Visitors	The Holburne Museum, Bath
2012	ISAM: Control Over Nature (collaboration with Amon Tobin Spencer)	Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
2012	From the Deep	Millennium, St Ives
2011	The Coming of the Fairies	Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
2011	ISAM: Control over Nature (collaboration with Amon Tobin Spencer)	Crypt Gallery, London
2011	Nymphidia	Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
2008	Tessa Farmer	Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
2007	Little Savages	Natural History Museum,
2007	Infestation	Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
2006	The Terror	Firstsite, Colchester
2002	Touch Wood	Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019	10 Years	CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London
2018	Through the Looking Glass	Cob Gallery, London
2018	Beckoning	Leeds Arts University, Leeds
2017	Encounters	Museum Aan der Stroom, Antwerp
2017	Black Mirror	Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth
2017	Nature’s Alchemy	Bo.lee Gallery, London
2016	Sneakyville	Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg
2016	Pastoral Noir	Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
2016	Field Days (touring, commissioned by Artsreach)	Dorset
2016	Animalia	Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone
2016	Curio: Sites of Wonder	Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
2016	Petrichor	Bo.lee Gallery at 19 Greek Street, London
2016	Perfectionism III	Griffin Gallery, London
2016	Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter	Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2015	Step in Stone	Disused/working quarries, Somerset
2015	The Gallery of Wonder on Tour	Touring, Northumberland
2015	Unnatural Curiosities	Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London
2014	The Infected Museum	Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London
2014	Secret Lives	Beaux Arts, Bath
2014	Vanitas	Karin Jannsen Project Space, London
2014	Odyssey	St Edmund the King Church, London
2014	Apiculture: Bees and the Art of Pollination	Peninsula Art Gallery, Plymouth
2014	Exile: A Living Forest	ONCA, Leighton
2013	Victoriana	Guildhall Art Gallery, London
2013	World Fantasy Convention	Brighton
2013	Beautiful Minds	Kleine Galerie, Humboldt University
2013	Reforest	Stour Valley Arts Gallery, Ashford
2013	Red Queen	MONA, Tasmania
2013	The Nature of the Beas	New Art Gallery Walsall
2013	Odyssey	Bath Abbey, Bath
2013	From Grimm to Reality	Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
2013	Beastly Hall,	Bexley Hall, Kent
2013	Oscillator	Science Gallery, Dublin
2013	World of Wild Doubt	Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany
2012	Pertaining to Things Natural	Chelsea Physic Garden and John Martin Gallery, London
2012	Tatton Park Biennial	Tatton Park, Knutsford
2012	Minimal	Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
2012	Hunters and Hunted	Museum Villa Rot, Germany
2011	Lafcadio's Revenge	New Orleans, USA
2011	Mindful	The Old Vic Tunnels, London
2011	Inaugural exhibition	Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania
2011	The Charter of the Forest	The Collection, Lincoln Art Gallery, Lincoln
2011	House of Beasts	Attingham Park (National Trust), Shrewsbury
2010	Enchanted Garden, Flower Fairies and Dark Tales	Mottisfont Abbey (National Trust), Hampshire
2010	Cabinet	John Martin Gallery, London
2010	The Witching Hour	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
2010	Newspeak: British Art Now: Part Two	Saatchi Gallery, London
2010	Provenance (Exhibition and Symposium)	Corsham Court, Bath
201o	Revelation Film Festival	Perth, Australia
2010	Fairytales, The Surreal House	Barbican, London
2010	Larger than Life Stranger than Fiction	Fellbach, Germany
2010	Oasis	Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
2010	Dead or Alive	Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2010	Extraordinary Measures	Belsay Hall, Northumberland
2010	East Wing IX: Exhibitionism	The Courtauld Institute, London
2009	Newspeak, British Art Now	The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
2009	Small Moments of Fantastic Thing	Galerie Antje Wachs, Berlin
2009	Pestival	South Bank Centre, London
2009	Slump City	Space Studios, London
2009	Breaking New	Five Hundred Dollars, London
2008	Riddle Me	Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
2008	Wrap Your Troubles in a Dream (curated by Power Ekroth)	Lautom Gallery, Oslo
2008	In Transit	Ladbroke Grove, London
2008	Animal Magic	Eleven, London
2008	Tatton Park Biennial	Knutsford
2008	LOCKED IN: The Visible	Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2008	Gothic	Fieldgate Gallery, London
2007	The Future Can Wait (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley)	Atlantis Gallery, London
2007	Growing Wild (curated by Jane Neal)	Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
2007	Am Schlimmsten: nicht im Sommer sterben	Nassauische Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2006	Repatriating the Ark	Museum of Garden History, London
2006	Miniature Worlds	Jerwood Space, London
2006	The Mouse that Roared	Project 133, London
2006	Where the Wild Things Are	Imperial College, London

Press Release | 10 Years | 2019

10 Years

Dale Adcock, Emma Bennett, Kiera Bennett, Sara Berman, Jelena Bulajić, Tom Butler, Paul
Chiappe, Adam Dix, Susannah Douglas, Tessa Farmer, Tom Gallant, Florian Heinke, Sam
Jackson, Simon Keenleyside, Thomas Langley, Wendy Mayer, Hugh Mendes, Sean Molloy,
Alex Gene Morrison, Tamsin Morse, Gavin Nolan, Dominic Shepherd, Carolein Smit, Barry
Thompson, Gavin Tremlett

PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 11 July 6.30-8.30pm

EXHIBITION DATES: Friday 12 July – Saturday 10 August 2019

GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm or by appointment

CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to announce ’10 Years’, our anniversary exhibition produced to celebrate a full decade’s
operations in Shoreditch.

During this time we have presented 88 exhibitions within the gallery, defining CHARLIE SMITH LONDON and gallery director
Zavier Ellis’ unique curatorial vision. The gallery has also established itself as a discovery zone by being the first to exhibit many
acclaimed young artists via its annual graduate exhibition Young Gods. Beyond the gallery walls, the gallery has participated in
over 30 art fairs in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and USA. Zavier Ellis also launched the monumental annual
exhibition THE FUTURE CAN WAIT with Simon Rumley, a ten-year project that was presented in partnership with Saatchi’s New
Sensations for four years and culminated in helping organise the seminal fund-raising exhibition In Memoriam Francesca Lowe.
Ellis has also curated or co-curated gallery, museum and pop up exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Klaipėda, London, Los
Angeles, Naples and Rome. And, perhaps most notably, the gallery has placed millions of pounds worth of artwork into collections
globally, working with many of the most prominent international collectors, and enabling artists to continue to do what artists do
best: making work.

This exhibition consists of some (but by no means all) of Ellis’ favourite artists who have shown over the years at CHARLIE SMITH
LONDON; some whom he has been tracking and wanting to show; and gallery artists. We hope you can join us on July 11th to help
us celebrate 10 Years!

Please contact gallery for images and further information.