Tamara Seta Krikorian (5 July 1944–11 July 2009) was a British video artist and a public art curator.

Biography

Born in Dorset from an Armenian family, she was educated in London where she studied music. In 1966 she moved to Edinburgh, Scotland where she met her partner Ivor Davies. She was a pioneer of video art. She started using video in 1973 in Scotland. She taught at

Maidstone College of Art The Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD, often ) was an art school based across three campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone Col ...

and in Newcastle. In 1976 she was among the founders of

London Video Arts London Video Arts (LVA) was founded for the promotion, distribution and exhibition of video art. Art form By 1976 video art had emerged as a viable time-based art form, which was beginning to establish its own aesthetic identity and theoretical dis ...

. In 1981 she moved to Wales, where she became director of the Welsh Sculpture Trust in 1984 (which in 1990 became Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales). She ran the agency until her retirement. She died in 2009.

Works

Her works include: ''In the Minds Eye'', ''Unassembled Information'', ''Vanitas'', ''Eyebath'' (1977); Vanitas/Still Life (1978); ''Heart of the Illusion: Landscape'', ''Still Life a Self Portrait'' (1981). In 1983 she made ''Sabra and Shatila massacres in Beirut'' that was included in the ''Expanded Cinema'' exhibition at Tate in 2009.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krikorian, Tamara 1944 births 2009 deaths 20th-century English women artists 21st-century English women artists Artists from Dorset British contemporary artists British people of Armenian descent British video artists Women video artists