AWARDS BURSARIES AND COMMISSIONS

2024

Awarded Distinction in MA Fine Art at University of West of England

2023

Awarded a KinoKotch film commission from Somerset Film as a member of a collective Wells Kinokotchers to produce a film with four other women (all non artists) shown in an outdoor setting in Wells in 2023.

Awarded a Commission from Seed Creative People and Places to run a series of free Clay Clubs (with Arts Council and local gp health trust funding) to improve well being for adults in Axbridge and Badgworth within Sedgemoor Somerset. This project commenced January 2023 and ran until March 2024.

2022

Awarded a Somerset Arts Festival micro commission to run community clay workshops making musical instruments and tea light holders to form an improvised soundtrack to her film Sanctuary (a meditation) which was shown at St Congars Church Badgworth as part of the Festival on 24th September 2022. Tina worked with amateur and non musicians to create an improvised soundtrack. (There is a short recording of this event on vimeo)

Selected to take part in Exchange 2 (Spike Island) to be paired with another artist and be involved in the project with artists across the UK from Eastside Projects, Turf, The Newbridge Project, Castlefield, Camp and the Exchange Summit at Primary. Her collaboration with artist Emma McAndrew D’Souza is ongoing.

Awarded Artists Network bursary to research and develop practice involving digital and clay exploration and awarded Sedgemoor Business Support Grant to help enable this

2021

Tina was awarded a Spike Island/UWE recent graduate bursary, a project grant from Sedgemoor District Council and Project funding from the Arts Council Lottery fund to create work around Covid 19 and its impact on a local community. This project, Time and Place, unfolded in early 2021 with Tina running a series of community workshops and projects which culminated in a Village Exhibition at the end of June 2021, alongside the showing of her Time and Place film to reflect experiences of Lockdown in a rural community.

A taster audio piece for the Time and Place project was made for Spike Island Open Studios radio fm in May 2021.

Tina was subsequently commissioned by the Somerset Libraries Reflections project to create an installation for Taunton Library to encourage library users to reflect on lockdown. She ran various community workshops across Somerset, and created a final community art piece from those workshop outcomes. This was presented at the Showcase event at Bridgwater Library in October 2021, and has since toured Somerset libraries. The final workshop pieces will form part of the Heritage Archive in Taunton. This work was co-funded by Somerset County Council, the Arts Council and the BBC 100 Novels that Changed the World programme.

Tina was also awarded a Santander Freelancer bursary.

2020

Tina’s film “Last Days” was selected for exhibition at the Wells Contemporary Art 2020, an acclaimed Open Exhibition. Due to Covid -19 the exhibition moved on -line and she was awarded the Somerset Art Works Somerset Arts Festival Prize, a bursary which will allow her the opportunity to create a new body of work to be shown later in 2022.