Biography

Tanya Raabe was Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has been a practising Visual Artist, devising artworks exploring and challenging identity, a disabled self and the nude in contemporary Art since 1987. She gained a BA(HONS) in Graphic Design at Leeds Polytechnic an MA in Communication Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and a PGCE in Higher Education fron Huddersfield University.

Tanya has exhibited as a solo artist and in group shows nationally including National Portrait Gallery, Holton Lee, Dorset, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Bluecoat, The A Foundation, Liverpool, Oriel Wrexham, Laing Gallery Newcastle since 1990.

Commissions include: The Culture Show. DaDa International Fest 2008.  

• Architects Inside Out, http://www.architecture-insideout.co.uk/
• Tate Modern Art Matters, http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerwhistlermonet/artmatters/
• Tate Britain,Shape and Engage: Explore project,http://www.engage.org/projects/explore_english.aspx
• Motion Disabled, Middleborough University, http://www.motiondisabled.com/

Awards recieved:

• Winner of Ability Media International Award, Visual Arts 2010, http://amiawards.org/2010-visual-arts
• DaDa International Festival 2008 Visual Arts.
• Arts Council England Grants for the Arts awards include Who’s Who 2008, Revealing Culture:HeadOn 2009-11.

Some of her other work includes Advisor on Cultural Olympiad commission ‘Artists Taking the Lead’, http://www.artiststakingthelead.org.uk/west-midlands/info and participatory work in Galleries, Schools, colleges and theatres nationally. Her work has been Published internationally in Representation of Sex, by H. Hagiwara, Osaka Women's University, Japan.

Tanya is presently an associate director of Fittings MultiMedia Arts http://www.fittings.org.uk/ and is creating live portraits of disabled cultural figures in Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/revealingcultureheadon.htm

For a full CV Email me from my contact page.