Biography
Tabatha Andrews is a sculptor and installation artist who works across diverse media including textiles, wood, bronze, glass, sound and light, film and performance. Her work explores the relationships between memory, materials and the observer. Creating experiences that question how we communicate through the senses, her works are immersive, tactile, and invite mental and physical interaction. Her projects are often socially engaged and collaborative, building relationships with a wide variety of diverse communities and contexts. Tabatha also works with arts in health and the sciences, exploring connections between craft, play, memory loss, sensory perception and language acquisition. She has worked with cathedrals, hospitals, forests, composers, scientists, communities with diverse needs, singers and local craft groups.
In 2025 Tabatha created The Slightest Gesture, a major project exploring sculpture, the senses and neurodiversity working with Exeter Phoenix, Freefall+, The Pelican Project and Southwest Dance Hub (National Lottery Funded). The project's legacy is The Gifts, a bespoke multisensory cabinet which now lives in Positive Light Projects in Exeter.
Other recent group shows include Odyssey at Hasting Contemporary (2026), OneIsland Many Visions on the Isle of Portland (2025), The Mirror at Night at Cross Lane Projects London (2025), Wander_Land atTremenheere Sculpture Gardens (2023) and Together We Rise at Chichester Cathedral (2022). In 2020 Tabatha was included in 50 Women Sculptors published by Aurora Metro. In 2019 she showed in Spare Parts at Science Gallery London, an exhibition about prosthetics and body identity, and premiered Antiphon, a live vocal sound work about listening, with the composer Charlotte Harding in 2019. Tabatha was shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2018 and received a Kings College London Innovation funding award for Call and Response, a collaboration with the stem cell scientist Andrea Streit researching communication, memory and hearing loss. During 2015 she ran an Arts Council funded project exploring sculpture and resonance with composer John Matthias and blind opera singer Victoria Oruwari (ROOMartspace London and KARST Plymouth). Tabatha was the 2015 winner of the 'First@108' Public Art Award to make two major new works on the theme of Memory for the Alzheimers and Dementia wards of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The first, The Dispensary, won the Building Better Healthcare Award for Collaborative Projects in 2017. A compelling short film by Liberty Smith about The Dispensary can be found here.
Tabatha Andrews studied at Glasgow School of Art, Slade School of Art, Edinburgh University and the Skowhegan School of Art, Maine, USA. She was Artist in Residence at Gloucester Cathedral in 2002-3, and has made projects with R O O M Gallery and STATION in Bristol, the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust, Plymouth Art Centre, the Centre for Contemporary Art in the Natural World in Haldon Forest, the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge, and the Monument to the Fire of London. She currently lectures at Falmouth University and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.