​Tanya Morel

I originally trained as an actor, working predominantly in touring theatre and independent film and TV production (both in front of, and behind the camera). 

 

Alongside Paul Morel and John Mowat, I am co-founder of Oddbodies, an award-winning Production Company specialising innovative and highly visual work that has been seen throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

 

During a break from touring to start a family, I went back to studying, and in 2006, graduated from University College Falmouth with a 1st class BA(Hons) in Fine Art.  

 

My visual arts practice covers drawing, sculpture, printmaking, painting, animation and filmmaking.  

 

My film work has been seen in numerous festivals including Animated Exeter, 2 Short Nights, Girls On Film,  Barton Hill Festival and The View From Here.

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It has also been screened in numerous group shows such as Pause at the Phoenix Gallery Brighton, Syncapodia at the Barbican Arts Centre, Art, Ecology & the Environment at CCANW, The Duchy, Princetown and the pop-up gallery, Contemporary Art Tavistock.

 

More recently I have had print work selected for the National Original Print Show at the Bankside Gallery in London, the RWA Open Exhibition  and DRAWN, both at the RWA in Bristol.

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As a member of the Tamar Valley Printmakers, my work is included in the annual Fresh Off The Press show at the Limekiln Gallery, Calstock and will also be seen in the forthcoming Mayflower 400 at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

 

Commissions have included Artist-In-Residence for the Tamar Valley AONB/Aune Head Arts Mining Landscape Project, Curiosity Box, an installation commissioned by Devon Artists’ Network, Dartmoor Tales, a series of animated films for MED Theatre’s Dartmoor Resource Project, and St Nicholas Priory for RAMM in Exeter.  World Dance Day I & II, short films commissioned by West Devon Borough Council. Shift, a dance film commissioned by Dance In Devon. Tales from Alice an animation project for the National Trust, and many more...