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Tania Kovats
Rosemary Shirley talks to Tania Kovats about how she sustained her practice through a flexible and diverse approach to working.
Tania Kovats' work is concerned with landscape, specifically how landscape is made and mediated. Her most distinctive sculptures take the form of white cubes eroded into geological formations; more recently she has created maps, drawings and a 'mountain machine', work which prompted a collaboration with the British Geological Society. Over the past twelve years she has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, she has also been involved with architectural projects, public art works and curatorship. Not bad for someone who came out of the Royal College feeling "completely unemployable".Directly after leaving college her priority was to get flexible, part-time work (including one week as a postwoman), that would allow her to carry on with her practice and to get a studio space. Help eventually came in the shape of the Barclays Young Artist of the Year Award which had an accompanying exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Kovats won the £10,000 prize which meant she could pay off her student debts and concentrate on producing work, rather than delivering post.Shortly after this she was spotted by gallery owner Laure Genillard, exhibiting in the group show 'Discretion'...
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