Contact & Bio

TanOren

Visual Cross-platform Artist
Writer & Historian

Email: ging3r_rog3rs@hotmail.com   
www.tanoren.co.uk
Instagram @tanorenart

TanOren is a disabled Welsh artist, writer and filmmaker whose work grows out of lived experience, memory, identity and place. Working across painting, mixed media, writing and film, she explores disability, class, personal history and the stories that shape how we see ourselves and each other. Her work often begins with something personal, but opens out into wider questions about belonging, representation, and community. She is particularly drawn to overlooked histories and everyday experiences, and to the way individual lives connect with the places they come from.

Storytelling is central to her practice. She often moves between visual art, writing, and film, allowing different parts of a story to surface. Her work can deal with difficult subjects, but humour, warmth, and character are equally important to her. She is interested in making honest, accessible and recognisable work, without simplifying the complexity of lived experience.

TanOren is a lead artist on Navigating Through Time: Quirky Chirky for Glandŵr Cymru, working with local history, memory, and community storytelling. She is an advisor to Disability Arts Cymru (DAC) and lead artist with Pobl Y Ffin (People of the Border), a community arts collective exploring the history and changing identity of the post-industrial mining village of Chirk.

TanOren holds degrees in Science and in History, which strongly inform her artistic practice.
Her published writing includes ‘Welcome to the Club? On disability, Poverty and Exclusion in the Arts‘ for Axis web, The Power of Two: Eleanor and Sarah, the Ladies of Llangollen and Quirky Chirky, an exploration of the history, character, and stories of her hometown.

Tanoren talks and writes about film for the BFI, Arrow Film. and Warners Studios, Studio Canal, Second Sight Films, 101 films for the 60MW podcast.
In a past life (as Tina Rogers), she lived and worked in Los Angeles as a Music PA for Road Runner and EMI. She also appeared in the 2015 Cult film Samurai Cop 2 – Deadly Vengeance in Hollywood, USA.

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Education
BA Hons History & Media 
PGCE Education 
Bsc Hons Science 

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Film

2026: Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival Semi Finalist
2026: New York International Woman Festival Best Production design in a Video
2026: Detroit independent film festival semi finalist
2026: New York lift-off film festival official selection
2026: Niagra falls international short festival Semi finalist
2026: Palermo international film festival semi finalist
2026: Munich Short Film Awards: Winner – Best Music Video
2026: Edinburgh Film Awards: Semi-Finalist
2026: London International Filmmakers Festival: Semi-Finalist
2026: Stockholm Short Festival: Semi-Finalist
2026: Film Festival Emeak: Quarter-Finalist
2026: Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards: Official Selection
2026: WRPN Women’s International Film Festival: Excellence Award
2026: Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival: Official Selection
2026: New York Film & Cinematography Awards: Official Selection
2015: Samurai Cop 2 – Deadly Vengeance in Hollywood, USA

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Exhibitions & Commissions

Sane and the possibility of Art  – Islington Festival of Music and Art July-August 2026

1^st Prize in Wrexham Miners Project Open art competition May 2026 for ‘Epitaph’.

 FANATIC at G39 Cardiff 17^th April  – 14^th June 2025 

Disability Arts Cymru – Recipient of the Disabled Artists Commission 
Artists Announcement

Celf Ar Y Cyd – ‘The Power of Two’, Eleanor and Sarah, The Ladies of Llangollen.
Celf’s website.

Galeri Open Galeri Caernarfon Cyf, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

Ty Pawb Open Tŷ Pawb

THE BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS  North Wales.
Portrait artist for Chirk.

Solo Exhibition at The Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
RCA Conwy | Home
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art – Art By TinaR

Commissioned by Celf Ar Y Cyd: Contemporary Art Collection of Wales, to produce a piece of Art about Politics, Protest and Activism! Tina created ‘Panopticon’
Being included in Celf ar y Cyd – The Contemporary Art Collection of Wales – Art By TinaR

Commissioned by AXISWEB to write an article in response to the topic of artist exploitation, as explored at the Aberdeen Summit in 2023. 
‘Welcome to the Club? On Disability, poverty and exclusion in the Arts’
Artist Exploitation: ‘Welcome to the club? On disability, poverty and exclusion in the arts’ by Tina Rogers | Axisweb: Contemporary Art UK Network

Contributor to CWLWM magazine with Dylan Moore
Quirky Chirky: welcome to the ‘wild west’ of northeast Wales (substack.com)

‘Aildanio’ Open – Disability Arts Cymru, in several galleries including: Cynon Valley Museum, G39, Ty Pawb, Mostyn Galleries
Aildanio DAC Art Prize 2022-2023 (matterport.com)

 The Solidarity of Hope collective – ‘I see you’ Unity festival – Llanelli

The Body and I (with Prea Kaur) Keele University. 

Ruma Ripa Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. 

Our Picturesque Landscape Community Collaborative Art Project. Denbighshire Council

Group Exhibition Keele University ‘Three Counties’ Arts open (winner of the Peoples choice award)

 Group Exhibition Aberystwyth Arts Centre ‘Oriel Lockdown’

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 Awards

1^st Prize in Wrexham Miners Project Open art competition May 2026 for ‘Epitaph’.

 Winner of the Charles Bracken Award for Art 
The Charles Bracken Award – SANE

Finalist in DACs ‘Aildanio’ open Aildanio: DAC Art Prize Live on AM — Disability Arts Cymru

Long Listed for the Hollybush Painting Prize 

Recipient of the Jerwood Arts prize
Artists – Jerwood Arts

Finalist in Aberystwyth Arts Centre ‘Oriel Lockdown’ 

First place in the Viewer’s Choice award  Keele University’s ‘Three Counties’ Open art show

Finalist in Qube Art’s open Viewer’s Choice award

Finalist in DAC’s ‘Outdoors: Indoors’ 

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 Tan has been a participant/advisor in the following:

Panel Member for WEAREUNLIMITED Open Awards
Unlimited UK Open Awards (weareunlimited.org.uk)

The DAM (Disability Arts Movement) in Venice 
Critical friend for Shape Arts
Discovering what themes, artists, and works are missing from Pt 1 – 6 for the Venice Biennale 
Biennale Arte 2024 | Homepage 2024 (labiennale.org)

Creativity is Mistakes  Creativity is Mistakes
Bring us our Creative Rights DAC-Manifesto-2021.pdf (squarespace.com)
GALWAD Home | GALWAD

National Museum of Wales  Homepage | Amgueddfa Cymru | National Museum Wales
British Film Institute (BFI) & The London School of Drawing  The Decline (AKA Downfall) + intro by season curator Pamela Hutchinson | BFI Southbank

Slade School of Art
Colour and Poetry 2022 – The Slade School of Fine Art (ucl.ac.uk)

Axisweb  Axisweb – Contemporary Art & Artists

May 2023 – DAC & Ty Pawb – Aildanio exhibition ‘Icons’ – David Bowie
Portraiture Using Collage – An Online Creative Workshop with Artist Tina Rogers – Tŷ Pawb (typawb.wales)

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Mentored by
Anthony Shapland (G39)
Claire Farrell Canals and Rivers Trust
Letty Clarke & Melissa Hinklage (Artes Mundi)
Ruth Fabby MBE (artist)
Lisa Carter-Grist (Artist)
Jo Marsh & Karen Whittingham (Ty Pawb)
Rachel Gadson (Artist)
Soroya French (Artist)
Jake Spicer (Artist)