Overview

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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Visit Tarka's own website www.tarkakings.com

Works
Exhibitions
Biography

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

Publications
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