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About Sinta Tantra
- Sinta Tantra (born 11 November 1979) is a British artist of Balinese descent.
- She was born in New York on 11 November 1979, and spent her childhood in Indonesia, America and the UK.
- She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2003 and completed her postgraduate degree at Royal Academy of Arts in 2006.
- In the same year, she was awarded the prestigious Deutsche Bank Award in Fine Art.
- Highly regarded for her site-specific work in the public realm, she has since undertaken commissions that include the Folkestone Triennial (2017), Songdo Tech City (2016), Liverpool Biennial (2012), The Southbank Centre (2008), and TFL Art on the Underground (2007).
- She held the inaugural Bridget Riley Fellowship 2016-17 at the British School at Rome, is the recipient of the British Council’s International Development Award and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize.
- She lives and works between London and Bali. Tantra’s practice is diverse, ranging from painted canvases, to site-specific sculptural interventions, to large-scale public artworks.
- She describes her work as 'painting on an architectural scale'.
- Colour is central to her practice, as a 'material which lies between the language of art and industry'.
- Her distinctive palette is inspired by her Balinese heritage and childhood holidays: 'I remember things through colour – especially the way in which colours vibrate against each other.
- I like the idea of ‘colour semiotics’ and the associations one has to particular colours in relationship to either brand or narrative.'Her work has been described as "exuberant", a "hedonistic celebration of excess and decoration", and her contribution to public art by transforming spaces with "chaotic yet captivating images" has been recognised by collectors and commissioners alike.
- Her 2010 work Universe of Objects in Archive, Arsenic and Railings praised for lifting the perspective "like the energy of a released spring and pulses horizontally around the room in endless optical trigonometric fugue".
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