Born in Glasgow 1967 of Welsh/Indian decent, Tanya Syed is a Swansea based artist working with film, digital, installation and sculpture. She makes single screen and gallery based work and has collaborated with artists of performance, dance, theatre and music. Her early films have been screened extensively in the UK and internationally including MOMA New York, Whitechapel Art gallery, A.S.T.A.R.T.I Paris, ICA London, Electric Gallery of Moving Images Vancouver. As part of the LFMC 50th Anniversary, her work was included in ‘From reel to real: Women, feminism and the London Film-Makers Co-operative’ at Tate Modern London and ‘Sensuous Film’ at the BFI 2016
She is a Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specialising in trauma recovery. Her research into the healing arts informs her work.
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