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Artist Bio
Tia Vellani is an artist with a background in music and genetics. She explores connections between art, science, social responsibility, and emotional well-being in her studio in Kilkenny, Ireland.
She produces multimedia projects in collaboration with scientists, dancers, photographers, musicians, and artists. She creates sculptures, paintings, drawings, installations, tapestries, digital art, and musical compositions. Her works have been exhibited in Europe and North America. She speaks internationally about the relationships between art and science. She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland, the Irish Music Rights Organisation, Artlinks, and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. Artist Statement
My art grows from my need for inner peace and my love for the beautiful planet we share. While some people are searching for clean energy and others are working to preserve the diversity of life, I am aiming for worldwide empathy and compassion.
My art is infused with the values I grew up with: connection, peace, respect for life, joy, playfulness, curiosity, self-awareness, humility, and social responsibility. I get most of my ideas from reading and letting my mind wander while I walk riverbanks in solitude. My mind finds patterns in the information I have taken in. Once an idea takes hold, I obsess about it until metaphors appear and project ideas arise. I carry out the projects in a way serves them best, and it is rarely the same way twice. Drawing on my science background, I create and direct collaborative, multimedia projects that blur the lines between different art forms and science. My work takes the forms of digital art, installation, music, drawing, painting, performance, sculpture, and tapestry. I create art and music informed by the theory of evolution; interpret music as art; re-imagine visual art, dance, and the theory of evolution as music. -Tia Vellani, 2024 |
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Many thanks to my patrons on Patreon for helping support my art practice since April 2020!
Alice Hudder James Delaney Jass Vellani Joanne Mullins Krithika Subramanian Maria-Elena Jockovich Mizan Livingston Morgan Reisinger Niall McLoughlin Tom Sheehan Shaelin Vellani Susan Fernandez Adorable critter drawings by Shaelin Vellani. @thepointofneedles
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