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From China to Chintz (1998)
Installation using sound, video projection, Chintz wallpaper, bird cages, tea
chests, tea, lavender essence, Asian bird song- initially responding to the Chintz
wallpaper in Pitshanger Manor, Ealing Broadway.
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Erika Tan was born in Singapore, graduated in Social Anthropology and Archaeology
from King's College, Cambridge (1991), studied Film Directing at the Beijing Film
Academy, China (1993-4) and completed an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins
School of Art, London (1997).
Her body of work reflects her longstanding interest in cultural and anthropological
issues. The artist's multimedia installations, photographic works, videos and
more recently web sites have found an audience world-wide and have been shown
extensively in the UK. Group shows include 'EAST International 2000' at Norwich
Gallery, and 'Cities on the Move' at the Hayward Gallery (1999). Her first solo
show 'PIDGIN interrupted transmission', a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition,
is currently touring to venues across the UK accompanied by a monograph publication
(ISBN 0-9538634-8-4).
Tan has made innovative use of new technologies for digital works. These have
included the inIVA project 'Touring London' (2001) and 'Slipstream' (2001), a
web-based project curated by Film and Video Umbrella. Via her involvement with
the arts organisation Above:Below, Tan has acted as Curator for 'HUB@RiCHMiX'
(2001), and as Project Manager on 'ICA in China' (1998-9) and 'Imaginaria 99'
for Cap Gemini.
Erika Tan has received numerous awards for her work, including the Digital
Arts Fellowship, awarded by The Arts Foundation (1998), the Arts Council Connections
Fund - Singapore (1999) and the ACME Live/Work Studio Award (2001-2004). Forthcoming
site-specific projects include an East England Arts Commission for Eden House,
Cambridge as well as a new commission for a permanent work for the Forest of Dean
in Gloucestershire.
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