Tarka Kings b. 1961
A graduate of the Royal Academy schools, Tarka Kings makes intricate, processed based works using graphite, coloured pencil, and most recently cut paper. Subtle and closely observed mark making is at the heart of her practice.
Offer Waterman exclusively represents Tarka Kings.
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Jingle Jangle Morning, 2011 -
This Time, 2013
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Screen Door, 2015
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River Mantra, 2016
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Je te désire V, 2016
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Untitled, 2017
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Étude, 2017-8
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Lily IV, 2017-8
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Bluegrass Breakdown , 2018
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Just a Wave, 2019
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Across the Water, 2019
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Red, White and Blue, 2019
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Pink, Black & Cream, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Kitchen Girl, 2022
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Tarka Kings: Mornings at the Lido
26 Sep - 24 Oct 2025Offer Waterman is delighted to announce Mornings at the Lido, an exhibition of new works by acclaimed artist Tarka Kings. In her third solo exhibition at the gallery, Kings explores...Read more -
The Treasure House Fair
22 - 26 Jun 2023We are exhibiting at this new fair in Chelsea, which will be on the same site as the former Masterpiece Fair.Read more -
Portraits
1 Jun - 14 Jul 2023A selection of portraits from the gallery's inventory alongside represented contemporary artists and invited guests.Read more -
Masterpiece, London
Stand 109 30 Jun - 6 Jul 2022We return this month to the Chelsea Royal Hospital for Masterpiece 2022.Read more
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Texture, Line and Form: A conversation between ten women artists
13 - 27 May 2022PRESS RELEASE Offer Waterman is delighted to present an exhibition surveying ten women artist’s exploration of line and form. Weaving together an imagined conversation between painters, ceramicists, sculptors and photographers,...Read more -
Post-War British Art on Vortic
2 - 30 Apr 2021VISIT THE SHOW Each gallery is presenting a virtual exhibition on the Vortic platform, with new shows launching every few days until the end of April. They can be viewed...Read more -
Tarka Kings: New Cut-Outs
3 Oct - 29 Nov 2019Carefully assembled from strips of Chiyogami paper and Balsa wood, Tarka Kings’ Cut-Outs are her first wholly abstract body of work. With their thin, colourful, irregular lines, the papers are...Read more -
Tarka Kings: Still is Still Moving
24 May - 20 Jun 2018Offer Waterman is delighted to announce Still is Still Moving an exhibition of more than 20 new works on paper by celebrated British artist Tarka Kings.Read more
Education
1972-79 St Paul's Girls' School
1981-87 Royal Academy Schools, Undergraduate and Post Graduate Diploma
Gallery Exhibitions
2019 New Cut-Outs, Offer Waterman, London
2018 Still is Still Moving, Offer Waterman, London
2015 Tarka Kings / Tristano di Robilant, Faggionato Fine Art, London
2014 The House, Faggionato Fine Art, London
2011 Krug Happiness Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 Tarka Kings / Kate Atkin, W.Y. Work, 52 Hoxton Square, London
Group exhibition, Pippy Houldsworth, London
2007 Sick and Tired of Purity, Fine Art Society, London
2004 Caledonia, Nigel Greenwood and Camilla Davidson, London
2001 Tarka Kings, Ingleby Gallery, London and Edinburgh
1999 Night Train, Fine Art Society, London
1994 New Paintings by Tarka Kings, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1991 Tarka Kings, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1989 Group exhibition, Henry Wyndham Gallery, London
1988 Tarka Kings / Catherine Goodman, London
1986 Tarka Kings / Tom Dixon, Gallery 24, London
1985 Creative Salvage, Cutz Gallery, London
Special Projects
2020 Group exhibition, Lifestories, Chatsworth House, Bakewell
2017 Windscape, site specific architectural project, Kapoor House, Lipari, Italy
2015 Mountain Standard Time, drawing installation, Kapoor House, London
2014 Diana and Actaeon, drawing installation, Chatsworth House, Bakewell
2013 Soon, opera set design, Riverside Studios, London
2011 Isis, Maggie's Centre, Rem Koolhaas Building, Glasgow
2008 Artist in Residence, Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, USA
2003 Caledonia I, Maggie's Centre, Frank Gehry Building, Dundee
2002 Art Tube, Art on the Underground, London
Teaching
Visiting Tutor, The Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch, London
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Spring at 17 St George Street
February 11, 2025Our new display features drawings, prints, studio ceramics, paintings and sculpture by Modern British masters and represented artists. We are delighted to be presenting a...Read more -
Tarka Kings in Picturing Childhood at Chatsworth House
16 March - 6 October 2024 April 2, 2024Gallery artist Tarka Kings is included in a new exhibition at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Picturing Childhood includes objects and artworks spanning five centuries, from...Read more -
Tarka Kings at Tristan Hoare
Paper: an exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar June 7, 2023Gallery artist Tarka Kings is participating in an exciting new exhibition at Tristan Hoare's London gallery. Paper , an exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and...Read more -
Tarka Kings in the April issue of House and Garden
Artists in their studio March 4, 2022Tarka Kings is interviewed for the April issue of House and Garden. Emily Tobin and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the former laundry in west London,...Read more
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Tarka Kings: New Jewellery at Louisa Guinness Gallery
January 10, 2022Gallery artist Tarka Kings' new jewellery collection is now available to buy at the Louisa Guinness Gallery in London. Kings was included in the recent...Read more -
Tarka Kings in the FT Weekend Magazine
November 11, 2020Gallery artist Tarka Kings' Scottish home features in the FT Weekend Magazine on Saturday 14th November. 'Airlie Castle sits perched above a deep gorge where...Read more -
Tarka Kings in a new exhibition at Chatsworth House
March 5, 2020Opening this summer.Read more
