Elephant Magazine #6: Cinematic Painting (2011)

Elephant Magazine #6: Cinematic Painting (2011)

Elephant Magazine # 6  Margherita Dessaney looks at how the modern language of film and moving images has transformed the traditional art of painting, while featuring the work of Guillaume Bressons, Andy Denzler, Jeremy Geddes, Nicole Hayden, Tiina Heiska, Joyce Ho,...
The Body In Women’s Art Now – 2010

The Body In Women’s Art Now – 2010

From the publication  The Body In Women’s Art Now, part 2 – Flux Text by Philippa Found ”Similarly, Tiina Heiska’s paintings focus on the body of the adolescent as a site of transformation and awakening, presenting ambiguous female characters of indefinable ages –...
The Body In Women’s Art Now – 2010

The Body In Women’s Art Now – 2010

From the publication  The Body In Women’s Art Now, part 2 – Flux Text by Tracey Warr    Three of the artists in this exhibition, Tiina Heiska, Sara Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson, focus on the precarious tipping point between girlhood and womanhood. Heiska’s...
Twin Room (2009)

Twin Room (2009)

One of the works shows a man sprawled on a bed with his left arm extended towards the viewer. The broad sketchy brushstrokes veil his features and make it impossible to tell whether he is even alive or simply resting in a state of post-coital oblivion. Herein the work...
Taide 1-08

Taide 1-08

Keskenään hyvin erilaiset maailmat sysäävät katsojaan samankaltaisiin odottaviin tunnelmiin: Tiina Heiskan (1959) maalauksissa näkyy usein naisen tai nuoren tytön hahmo, toisinaan katsojan silmien eteen leikkautuvat vain epäröivät jalat ja minihame. Teokset liikkuvat...
Patent Shoes (2007)

Patent Shoes (2007)

Finnish artist Tiina Heiska´s work is based on photography, which she uses as a sketch or a draft for the later painted image. Her works carry a poetic mystique owing to the painterly quality but also to the fact that their inherent narrative is never obvious. Her...