Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art

Talitha Tunnell

(she/her)

Through an engaged, iterative process of mapping, collecting, musing, and remapping, my practice seeks to question and reframe how relational space interacts with physical space, drawing upon the experiences of both human and non-human entities.

By using the method and guise of this ‘mapping’, my practice encompasses a personal process of searching for and documenting such spaces in which these entities messily intersect and entangle, and where reflections are cast. Finding and containing bodies within these landscapes that often propose contradictory understandings of my own place within these larger systems, and exploring how we can thoughtfully navigate our role in both supporting and transforming non-human environments. My work grapples with the inherent tensions in how we shape and are shaped by our environment, finding and layering both conversation and contention within invisible frameworks of human control.

Contact
tallytunnell@icloud.com
T.Tunnell1@student.gsa.ac.uk
@tallytunnellart
www.tallytunnell.com
Collections
Whose reaching limbs recall my own?
Work done on site

Whose reaching limbs recall my own?

Degree Show Installation – A container of contradictory reflections.

The eye skips and widens.

Invisible human framing. Installation detail (stone lithograph and ink drawings on kuranai paper, ink drawings on mulberry paper, pencil on board and coloured paper).

Reflected self in the gloaming – merging with the telegraph poles

Soft pastel on paper

Reflection

Pencil on board and paper, ink on kuranai, galvanised steel nails, magnets

A destination and continuation

Pencil on oil paper, ink on kuranai paper, galvanised steel nails, magnets

Framework Fixings

Human Framework Detail

Human Framework Detail

Human Framework Detail

Reflections II

Musings, Pencil on Oil Paper

Work done on site

Fieldwork – the process.

An extended hand - human amendment to human destruction (can - should - we demonise the idea of control?). 1/4

Fieldwork, Lenzie Moss, 2024

Between control and concession

Wetland management, Lenzie Moss, Ink on canvas, 2025

Reaching spindly arms - buzzing containers.

Fieldwork, Claypits, Pencil on folded paper, 2025

An extended hand - human amendment to human destruction (can - should - we demonise the idea of control?). 2/4

Fieldwork, Lenzie Moss, 2024

Am I the arms of a pylon? The star-like form of moss, the metal staples of wetland management?

Fieldwork, Lenzie Moss, Ink on Canvas, 2025

In which I feel separate, my limbs wire cables

Fieldwork, Claypits, Ink on cotton canvas and japanese paper, 2024

Becoming With

Fieldwork, Isle of Coll, Pencil on paper, magnets, 2024

Broken-made-whole-surround - Iterative Map

Fieldwork, Various locations, Multi-media, 2024-25