Biography - Tia Vellani
Cross-disciplinary artist Tia Vellani is a research scientist, multi-instrumental musician, jewellery designer, and visual artist, and has lately grown comfortable as a creative director and producer of collaborative, cross-disciplinary, multimedia arts projects.
Some of these projects are What is the Sound of One Heart Dancing? (2021, with Helen Walsh, Jennie Grangel, Eoin Coffey, and Sandra Mogensen), Sonic Notation (2018-2020, with the SNOrchestra), 29 to Wood Green (2017, with Manuel Avila), Evolutionary Music (2017, with Luke Cissell), Genetics of Music (in progress, with Christopher Hanusa), Interstellar Fugue (in progress, with Christopher Hanusa), and Evolution of Happiness (in progress, with Krithika Subramanian).
She was sought out as a guest for the Art+Science Salon, which is supported by Science Gallery Dublin and Trinity Long Room Hub, and as a speaker for a Science and Art Postgraduate Course at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She has participated in artist residencies in Greece, the UK, Italy, and Spain, and has won awards for her art and to support her art from the American Society for Microbiology, Arts Council of Ireland, and Fire Station Artists' Studios.
Her installations, playable sculptures, experimental sound art, SciArt jewellery, paintings, collages, digital art, and glass bead tapestries have been exhibited in the USA (Florida, Washington, and Georgia), Ireland (Carlow and Kilkenny), the UK (London and Belfast), and Italy (Sardinia and the mainland).
She graduated with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia and conducted postdoctoral research in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genomics in the USA at the University of Miami's Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department and in Ireland at Teagasc's Crop Science Department. She holds a Grade IX Royal Conservatory of Music certification in piano. She has played piano, electronic keyboard, concert flute, West African drums, and sang in innumerable musical ensembles since childhood. Her training in music and science was as rigorous as her art training was informal.
Two compelling forces motivate her work: Advocating subversively for connection, understanding, peace on Earth, peace with Earth, and peace within, and secondly, bringing to light her experiences that take place at the confluence of truth and beauty. She is based in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Some of these projects are What is the Sound of One Heart Dancing? (2021, with Helen Walsh, Jennie Grangel, Eoin Coffey, and Sandra Mogensen), Sonic Notation (2018-2020, with the SNOrchestra), 29 to Wood Green (2017, with Manuel Avila), Evolutionary Music (2017, with Luke Cissell), Genetics of Music (in progress, with Christopher Hanusa), Interstellar Fugue (in progress, with Christopher Hanusa), and Evolution of Happiness (in progress, with Krithika Subramanian).
She was sought out as a guest for the Art+Science Salon, which is supported by Science Gallery Dublin and Trinity Long Room Hub, and as a speaker for a Science and Art Postgraduate Course at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She has participated in artist residencies in Greece, the UK, Italy, and Spain, and has won awards for her art and to support her art from the American Society for Microbiology, Arts Council of Ireland, and Fire Station Artists' Studios.
Her installations, playable sculptures, experimental sound art, SciArt jewellery, paintings, collages, digital art, and glass bead tapestries have been exhibited in the USA (Florida, Washington, and Georgia), Ireland (Carlow and Kilkenny), the UK (London and Belfast), and Italy (Sardinia and the mainland).
She graduated with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia and conducted postdoctoral research in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genomics in the USA at the University of Miami's Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department and in Ireland at Teagasc's Crop Science Department. She holds a Grade IX Royal Conservatory of Music certification in piano. She has played piano, electronic keyboard, concert flute, West African drums, and sang in innumerable musical ensembles since childhood. Her training in music and science was as rigorous as her art training was informal.
Two compelling forces motivate her work: Advocating subversively for connection, understanding, peace on Earth, peace with Earth, and peace within, and secondly, bringing to light her experiences that take place at the confluence of truth and beauty. She is based in Kilkenny, Ireland.