Tanya Wales

From her studio in regional South Australia, Tanya Wales creates evocative, minimalist paintings that invite stillness and contemplation. Her practice sidesteps easy classification as abstraction, instead offering a unique visual vocabulary that engages with radiant fields of colour that stir deeply personal and intuitive responses.

Wales draws from a range of techniques, centred around pouring delicate translucent layers and soft brushwork, to construct surfaces that are restrained yet visually expansive. This interplay of tonal shifts generates a tension that hovers between simplicity and complexity. 

Wales’ practice grew from her professional background in Design Arts and Graphic Design. She refined her approach through training at the National Art School in 2007 and private tuition between 2008 and 2014. She has exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne through solo and group shows, as well as at major art fairs.

AVAILABLE WORKS

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TANYA WALES
Born 1978, Adelaide SA. Lives and works in South Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 – 'The Pause Between', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2025 – 'The Realm of Observation', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2024 – 'Moments Held', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2023 – 'In Between', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2022 – 'Season', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2021 – 'Liminal Spaces', Markian, New Farm, Queensland
2021 – 'Colour Response', with Caroline McIntyre, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2019 – 'New Paintings', Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney
2016 – 'The Ambience Store Project / Cultural Flanerie', Brisbane

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND OPEN STUDIOS from 2013
2026 – 'Element', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2025 – 'Seeing the Light', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2024 – 'Real, Still, Unreal', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2024 – 'Incandescent', Wonderground, Barossa
2023 – 'In Volume', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2022 – 'False Machine', Jennings Kerr, NSW
2021 – 'SALA' – Open Studio
2019 – 'Edge Creative Trail', Inner West Council, St Peters, Sydney
2019 – 'Abstract Group show', Soho Galleries, Sydney
2019 – 'Friends of Hazelhurst', Hazelhurst Gallery, Gymea, Sydney
2018 – 'IWOST Inner West Open Studio Trail', St Peters, Sydney
2017 – 'IWOST' Inner West Open Studio Trail', St Peters, Sydney
2015 – 'Art Pharmacy', Sydney
2015 – 'Spectrum Now', ArtSHINE gallery, Chippendale, Sydney
2015 – 'MOST' Marrickville Open Studio Trail', St Peters, Sydney
2016 – 'MOST' Marrickville Open Studio Trail', St Peters, Sydney
2014 – 'MOST' Marrickville Open Studio Trail', Sydney
2014 – 'Hunters Hill Art Gallery', Sydney
2013 – 'Sydney Fringe Festival', St Peters, Sydney

ART FAIRS
2023 – 'Sydney Contemporary', Jennings Kerr, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 – 'The Other Art Fair', The Cutaway, Barangaroo, Sydney
2019 – 'The Other Art Fair', Australian Technology Park, Sydney
2018 – 'The Other Art Fair', Kensington, Melbourne
2017 – 'The Other Art Fair', Australian Technology Park, Sydney
2017 – 'The Other Art Fair', Kensington, Melbourne
2016 – 'The Other Art Fair', Waterloo, Sydney
2015 – 'The Other Art Fair', Chippendale, Sydney