Tanya Krzywinska is an artist, academic, and writer. A graduate of North London University, Falmouth University, and Central St Martins. She is making work that brings landscape and figurative together, inspired by folk horror and informed by her scholarly work on the genre within film and videogames. Krzywinska has exhibited work nationally, including at the Newlyn Art Gallery and Trinity Bouys Wharf, and has had her images published in international publications. She has curated various exhibitions, including one to accompany an international academic conference on folk horror at Falmouth University. Tanya edits a journal entitled Games and Culture (Sage) and is a distinguished Fellow of Higher Education Videogames Association as well as of the Digital Games Research Association. As a Professor at Falmouth University, she has recently made installations AR and VR work for Cornish Museums. She is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

My current work examines the types of energies that lie outside the bounds of human control (geology, physics, light), seen through the lens of animism. This has grown out of academic and art work focused on Folk horror. Riffing on Mary Douglas’s anthropological work, some of the work focuses on human-made things that are ‘out of place’, sometimes hovering between the inside and outside. I’ve been exploring using AR overlays over drawn and painted surfaces. I value working collectively and dialogically with other artists across diverse media.

I keep a blog focused on the folk horror project which can be found at

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Email: tanya.krzywinska@gmail.com

An academic CV is found here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya-Krzywinska-3