Anne Tallentire (b. 1949, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) lives and works in London, UK. Her practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, Tallentire’s work seeks to reveal systems that shape the built environment and the economics of labour. Her recent work has examined geographical dislocation and demarcation in relation to infrastructure.  

Recent solo exhibitions include measurement plan, Cromwell Place, London (2023); Material Distance, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2022); But this material…, The MAC, Belfast, Ireland (2021); As happens, Hollybush Gardens, London (2020); Plan (…), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2019); Shelter, Nerve Centre and Eighty81, both Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and FabLab Limerick, Ireland (all 2016); This and Other Things, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2010); and Irish Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale (1999), among others. 

Group exhibitions include Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Coalescence, Shimmer, Rotterdam (2025); Vertices: Anne Tallentire and Olga Balema, Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford (2024), Ireland; Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990, among others.  

From 1993, Tallentire has also made work as part of the artist duo work-seth/tallentire with artist John Seth. She is also the co-organiser, with Chris Fite-Wassilak, of the peripatetic event series ‘hmn’. 

Her work is held in significant public collections, including Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Arts Council Collection, UK; Government Art Collection, UK; British Council Collection; Arts Council England Collection and Arts Council Ireland Collection. In 2018 Tallentire was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists; in 2022, Tallentire was the recipient of a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. She is Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s to 2014. 

Photograph by Emile Holba.