Tess Glen

Tess Glen constantly seeks new ways to tell stories through images, pattern, and words, drawing fresh narratives from observation. Her work includes a book of an imagined dialogue between an artist and a writer.
  • Alumni
  • Tutor
  • 2019
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Role

Young Artists tutor, Drawing Year Alumni, 2019

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Biography

Tess Glen graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a first class Honours in Painting in 2017 and has since exhibited at the RSA New Contemporaries and Hidden Door Festival. Tess strives to find different ways to tell stories with images, pattern and word and during her time on The Drawing Year, she has found a rich source of new imagery and narratives through observational drawing. Her work has coalesced in a book detailing the imagined creative relationship between an artist and a writer.