Tina Keane

Tina Keane, a Lecturer in Film & Video and later Research Fellow at Central St Martins until 2012, has exhibited both nationally and internationally. A pioneer of live performance art, multimedia and electronic art: she has worked with film, video, installation and neon sculpture. From painting to producing light shows in the late 1960s, she became a dynamic force in the rise of women’s art in the 1970s and 1980s and contributed to the advancement of new perspectives and counter discourses made public at the time. Always innovative, she made use of the resources available to her and improvised and learnt new techniques to develop her practice. New and emerging technologies were also the opportunity to experiment with and discover new ways to realise her ideas. A proponent of digital art she used computers and the internet to continue to explore and create new work in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The Art360 Recollect Programme offers an opportunity and starting point from which to catalogue this body of work.

Credit lines:

1) Playpen, 1979 © Tina Keane

2) Escalator, 1988 © Tina Keane. Photo: Edward Woodman

3) Still from ‘Hey Mack’, 16mm film, 1982 © Tina Keane

4) ‘Classical Trapeze’, neon sculpture from an installation, 1990 © Tina Keane