Tanya is a Balkan-British multidisciplinary artist based between Naarm/Melbourne and London. As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, her practice is entangled around her experience of existing under different social & cultural contexts.

 

Through use of her training in Theatre (Ecole Philippe Gaulier), and work in TV (BBC/Sky/ITV), she performs satirical characters and improvised performances, video works and installations as a way to interrogate power, shame and the narratives we build about our lives.

 

By embracing playfulness as a form of resistance, through a lo-fi ready made aesthetic and the tools of humour, fantasy and seduction, she re-narrativises cultural stereotypes and seeks to expose what we think we know about ourselves and the other.

 

Recent accolades: Artist in Residence at ACMI (2025), Mary Oliphant Award Winner at RMIT(2024), Artist in Residence at Tropical Lab, Singapore (2023) & recipient of the Develop Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England (2021).