Tanya Raabe's Blog
Visual Artist Tanya Raabe makes work around the theme of body image. Her blog concentrates on 'Revealing Culture: HeadOn' - an artwork and piece of research exploring identity, disability culture, in contemporary portraiture and the nude.
8 September 2011
EXTRA EXTRA! Live Portrait sitting Tate Modern
I Know you've been missing me on DAO! Been busy Launching the exhibition at solihull arts complex that went really well......everyone is loving the artworks. hope youve had time to take a peek. the...Comments: 1
9 May 2011
Revealing Culture:HeadOn - exhibition coming soon
Revealing Culture: HeadOn – Portraits of the Untold My new and exciting, formidable collection of contemporary portraits of distinguished characters from an ever evolving Disability Culture...Comments: 0
4 February 2011
Tanya on her recent successes... and Raspberry Ripple
I'm totally absorbed by my paintings in my studio, just now, thinking, eating and living colour in lucious oils good enough to eat. Since Christmas I've worked on eight of the new portraits and...Comments: 3
6 December 2010
DaDaFest International 2010 portraits and more...
I've just had the craziest of times lately... what with doing a live portrait sitting of Sir William Laurence in Wolverhampton art Gallery... and it being filmed by Art Council England as a showcase...Comments: 2
19 October 2010
Liz Carr poses for Tanya Raabe as part of Revealing Culture at Tate Liverpool
Liz Carr was a brilliant sitter and had great stories to tell about her travels around the world, her ever entertaining life, her family and her wedding plans for this November... good look girl......Comments: 4
29 July 2010
Tanya Raabe makes some more paintings... Revealing Culture: HeadOn
Its still all go in the world of Revealing Culture HeadOn... now where have I got up to. Well... the charismatic Tom Shakespeare sat for his portrait in Tate Modern earlier this month and what a...Comments: 3
8 June 2010
Tanya Raabe has been running around the country with Paint!!!
I know I've been amiss and not keeping you all up to date with my Revealing Culture expeditions... well I've been trying to slow down with my roaming around the country running this and that...Comments: 2
22 April 2010
Tanya Raabe animates some drawings from the tour of Fittings and talks some more about Revealing Culture
The Making of 'Raspberry The Rehearsal', an animation made out of the drawings and sounds of the rehearsal, is finished and now on YouTube... I'm so getting into this techi netting think!!! This...Comments: 0
13 April 2010
Tanya Raabe is looking for your ‘Public’s Choice' portrait to be made during DaDa International 2010.
Vote for your ‘Public’s Choice' portrait to be created by me in a public sitting in Tate Modern during DaDa International 2010. Revealing Culture:HeadOn is an artwork and piece of...Comments: 1
27 March 2010
Tanya Raabe blogs her first rehearsal with Raspberry - the new production from Fittings Multimedia Arts
As associate artist in residence I've just spent a fascinating four days watching and drawing the rehearsal of 'Raspberry' - a co-production between Fittings Multimedia Arts, Sounds of Progress and...Comments: 2
1 March 2010
Vote for The Public's Choice sports portrait
'The Public’s Choice' is a chance for you to nominate either a disabled sports personality, or a disabled athlete or a disabled sports person, to have their portrait painted as part of...Comments: 0
1 March 2010
Tanya Raabe blogs more 'live sittings' at Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern
I’ve now portrayed another three disabled cultural figures in the last two weeks. Its been such a busy time I’ve not got around to telling you all about it, so here goes! Sir Bert...Comments: 3
25 February 2010
Tanya Raabe offers an update on her gallery research as part of Revealing Culture:Head On
I've spent 2 days mooching around the galleries in Tate Liverpool and am picking up some interesting comments from the public reguarding the representation of disability culture. Comments suggest...Comments: 0
25 February 2010
Tanya Raabe blogs her Tate Modern sitting with Deb Williams
I'm back!!!! been on a bit of a journey... Debs Williams was my next sitting in Tate Modern and she was a brilliant subject with a great disability cultural history to tell. This included her...Comments: 0
1 February 2010
Tanya Raabe writes about the Tate Modern sitting with Sophie Morgan, as part of her project 'Revealing Culture: Head On'
Well, the event of drawing Sophie Morgan in Tate Modern was certainly an experience never to be forgotten. I was a little nervous to begin with, at the thought of the public watching me creating my...Comments: 4
27 January 2010
Tanya Raabe makes her first research visit to Tate Liverpool as part of Revealing Culture:HeadOn
Busy, busy, busy... I think I’m running behind myself at the mo! Last week Michele Taylor came to my home studio in Shropshire and posed for her portrait nude. A first for her. Michele said...Comments: 3