Tash Keddy

Tash Keddy (b. 1995) is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born and Prague-based artist who works in photography, sculpture, and installation. Working outwards from research into music, architecture, industrial objects, and clinical psychoanalytic theory, his practice questions the use-value of things, words, and ways of somatic perception.

Based on scientific research, the artist’s practice merges various forms to construct mental landscapes illuminated by ethnoreligious beliefs and flooded by biopolitics. 

Date of residency: 01.02. – 30.06.2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT

During the residency period at MeetFactory, Tash will be developing research towards Security Studies, an ongoing project. Security Studies explores the tension between industrial and post-industrial objects and human needs for safety, contrasting ideas of protection with those of suspicion. Working with analogue photographic darkroom processes,  he will adapt this knowledge onto sculptural surfaces such as found metal, ceramic, and plastic, culminating in sculptures and material for a wider installation concept.

EDUCATION

2019    BFA (Hons) at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand

EXHIBITIONS

2023    Issues, Envy6011, Wellington, New Zealand

2022    Your Will, The Will Of The World, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2022    everything just feels like feeling everything all the time, Mutter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands   

2020    Grind House, Parasite, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand

2019    Desiderium: Contingent Bliss, Elam School Of Fine Arts, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand

RESIDENCIES

2025    Artist Residency, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic

2022    Residency at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

All information is accurate as of 01 February 2025.