Biography

Multi-disciplinary artist and performer, Tansy Spinks’ practice includes photography, sound, video, drawing, painting, text based and written works.

She received her PhD researching site-specific sound as a performative practice from LCC, (CRiSAP), University of the Arts London, with David Toop, Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane.

She studied Fine Art in Leeds, has an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, London (violin teaching).

As Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University, (on PhD, MA, BA and exchange programmes), she has also held posts as a Lecturer in Illustration and Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art, UAL, acted as EE for the BA Photography and Media courses at Hertfordshire, Manchester Metropolitan, Plymouth University and external advisor for Fine Art course validations. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SFHEA.

She has also exhibited widely both at home and abroad. Photographic images have been purchased for several collections including the National Media Museum, Bradford and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Major publishers of book and CD covers have used her visual work commercially.

More recently, she has been a regular member of The London Improvisers Orchestra, the weekly London Improvisation Workshop (with Eddie Prevost) and has performed in many alternative venues such as Café Oto, Iklectik, South London Gallery, Beaconsfield, Hundred Years Gallery, Whitstable Biennale fringe and for many promoters such as Ad Lib, Konsztrukting Soundz, Avant Garden, Cozy Nook, Jazz Rumours, Luft, Flim Flam, Babble & Squeak, The Instant Orchestra (Latitude) and The Sound Bureau, playing alongside many notable performers of live improvisation, on violin, objects and with voice.

Recent music was devised for artist film-makers Anne Robinson shown at APT and Keith Piper shown at Tate Britain.

Tansy lives and works in London.