Tanya Kingston was born in Manchester, UK and spent her early years in Washington DC and Baltimore, USA. Tanya was schooled later in England and after matriculation she won a scholarship to study illustration and design at Goldsmiths’ London. This was followed by a scholarship to Kings College, Newcastle-on-Tyne. While raising her family, she worked as an illustrator from 1970-1987, and has been nominated for various book awards.

Tanya Kingston was resident artist at the NSW University Atelier of the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris from March to July 1997. Since holding her first solo show at the Grace Brothers Gallery in 1975, her fine art practice has consisted of large scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures. Expansive in nature, her painting has developed around the study of the figure in space, both physical and psychological space. In recent years she has exhibited in Paris, Belgium and USA, as well as Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.

Tanya Kingston entered post-graduate study in 1992 and holds a Master of Art Degree and a Masters’ Research Degree (MFA) from the Sydney College of Fine Arts. In March 2001 Tanya was awarded a fellowship grant to the Vermont Studio Centre, USA as an artist in residence, which allowed her work to explore spatial abstraction, with the figure as ‘vector’. February 2003 Tanya was awarded a residency at the Pouch Cove Artist Studio in Newfoundland, Canada, for March and April 2004.

Tanya has been invited to show with the Experimental Art Foundation in Indiana and also with the Hall of Ocean and Sea in Beijing as well as with various private galleries. In 2003 Tanya had two solo shows with the Thierry B Gallery in Melbourne, ‘New York State of Mind’ and ‘Summer Paintings’.

Tanya is represented in Melbourne by Thierry B gallery, and in various venues in Sydney,

She was invited by the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, to work at the prestigious

Leighton Studios as a resident artist for May of this year, 2005, and on return was asked

to exhibit with Sydney Town Art gallery. A new venue. She is primarily interested in

exploring ideas around the figure in space, looking through space, and the relation

of matter to space. 2006, Tanys was invited to spend three months as a resident artist

at the Newington Armory studios newly designed at Sydney’s Olympic Park venue

run by the Olympic Park Authority. Her work is now currently in three galleries,

Thierry B gallery, Melbourne , Graphis Arts, Sydney and Dubai, and On the Brinkin the Blue Mountains NSW. In November this year she will be resident artist at i-Park, Artists

Enclave, Connecticut, USA for one month.