Tina Keane

Tina Keane
Born1940 (age 85–86)
Education
Known forFilm and performance art
AwardsPaul Hamlyn Foundation Award

Tina Keane (born 1940) is a British artist who has worked with film, video, digital media, and performance, and been a forerunner of multimedia art in the UK. Reflecting a feminist perspective, her works have often explored gender roles, sexuality, and political concerns.

Early life and education

Keane studied at the Hammersmith College of Art[when?], then the Sir John Cass School of Art (1967–70).[citation needed] From 1995-96, she studied for an MA in Independent Film and Video from the London College of Printing.[citation needed] She was[when?] a founder member of the non-profit women’s film distribution organisation Circles - Women in Distribution. Keane also curated and programmed exhibitions and screenings including The New Pluralism exhibition at the Tate Gallery, with Michael O'Pray, in 1985.[citation needed]

Work

Keane's 1978 multimedia work, She, presented at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1978 was an early example of performance that incorporated live video and slide projections.[citation needed] Transparencies of neon signs, poetry and images of shop windows featuring mannequins were projected on a wall before which Keane performed, while video of the performance played on monitors surmounted with neon texts.[citation needed] Keane has said that the work brought into play "the actual and the recorded, the shop dummy, and the person, the illusion and the reality".

Transposition, first presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, in 1992, used the body as a screen with video projected onto the naked backs of men as they glide sideways standing on a travelator.[citation needed] Keane subsequently re-edited the piece into a double screen video installation for the inaugural Tanks programme at Tate Modern, London, in 2012.

Career

Teaching

Keane has been an important influence on successive generations of artists in the UK as a teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London, where she was Lecturer in Film & Video since 1982 and Research Fellow from 2003 to 2012. Notable students who were mentored by Keane include Sandra Lahire, Sarah Turner and Isaac Julien.[citation needed] According to Malcolm Le Grice:

"During the 1970s and ’80s, the teaching of women artists – including Tina Keane, Anna Thew, Anne Tallentire, Joanna Greenhill and Pam Skelton –was one of Saint Martins’ major contributions to art education. Their influence helped create a lasting shift in the gender profile in British art, and Saint Martins in general maintained a committed concern for gender, ethnicity and sexual politics throughout the Thatcher years.”[citation needed]

Awards

Keane has received awards for her work including:

Exhibitions

Group

Year Title Institution Location Notes Ref
1978 Hayward Gallery London Featured her work She (1978)
1992 Museum of Modern Art Vienna Featured her work Transposition
2012 Tanks, Tate Modern London
2020 Radical Landscapes Tate Featured her work In Our Hands (1982-84)

Collections

Keane's work is held in several public collections:

References

  1. 1 2 Richard Dyer; Jean Fisher; Peter Wollen (9 November 2007). Electronic Shadows: The Art of Tina Keane. Black Dog. ISBN 9781901033441. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Tina Keane, She". re:act feminism. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Tina Keane: Transposition". Tate Modern. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Awards for Artists 2015 - recipients announced - Paul Hamlyn Foundation". Phf.org.uk. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2016.