Tyler Eash

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Tyler Eash (1988, Turtle Island/USA), is a Maidu & Modoc 2 Spirit artist, poet, and performer. As a queer artist of both Indigenous American and Irish descent, their work engages the medium of identity as the last frontier of true sovereignty. In their practice, the body and its ancestral history presents both a document and an avatar to represent the desires of a post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-gender self; becoming an interface between their Indigenous world view and the colonial realms of “high culture”. Eash explores this frontier in a post-disciplinary fashion; using painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film, music, poetry and performance as a means to reclaim space, history, and an identity that has been endangered by the California Genocide and the colonial invention of the “California Dream”. With recent exhibitions curated by Danielle Seewalker (Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) and Angelica Trimble-Yanu (Oglála Lakȟóta Sioux Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) and with a commission from Māori/Samoan Seer, Janelle Murphy, descendant of Dame Whina Cooper, “Mother of the Nation” of Aotearoa (NZ), Eash’s practice serves as a bridge between colonial and colonised Peoples. Tyler Eash holds a Masters in Fine Arts with Distinction from Goldsmiths University of London, 2019. Tyler Eash works between London, UK, and the forests of the Maidu in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Tyler Eash is represented in the UK by Nicoletti...

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