TANSY SPINKS
Tansy Spinks is an artist, photographer, performer, live-improviser, sound and video maker, Tansy Spinks is currently researching means of listening, materiality in sound-making and site-specific sound as a live, performative practice. Her publication Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition, Performance (Dack, Spinks, Stanovic) is published by Cambridge Scholars Press.
Sound projects include The Lab of Sonic Possibility and Whitstable Biennale fringe events for Sounding Shore, with Iris Garrelfs, the Text Scores of Place series, originally commissioned for a solo show at M2 gallery) The Sound Bureau project space in Brixton, investigations into Hearing Narratives in literature, with novelist Adam Lively and live responses to film (at APT gallery, for Anne Robinson’s film, The Hurrier, 2021 and for her current film The Charmers 2023, with Maggie Nichols and Keith Piper’s film Viva Voce for Tate Britain 2024 and to the paintings of Monica Sjoo at Beaconsfield Gallery, 2022. She also devised and led the graphic score ensemble for Tom Phillip’s memorial event at the South London Gallery, 2023, (for electric violin, bassoon, theremin, toy pianos and objects from Tom’s studio). She is currently a member/participant of the London Improvisor’s orchestra and Eddie Prevost’s London Improviser’s Workshop.
With a PhD from LCC, Fine Art degree, MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, London, (violin) she is also a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University and until recently, PL for MA Fine Art.