Tanya Galia is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician based in North-West London with Filipino heritage. She obtained a BA in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts London’s Camberwell and currently works across early education with an interest in facilitating creative workshops. She explores abstract maximalism in mediums such as painting, ceramics, textiles and technology. GALIA is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and part of a samba youth band ‘União da Mocidade’ (Union of the Youth). Inspired by London’s fusion of cultures, she mostly explores Jazz, Soul, Psychedelia, and RnB. In her songwriting, she highlights the power of affirmations and is relearning her mother tongue, Bisaya, through music. Galia had her first solo exhibition in May at Hackney Gallery showcasing her most recent and ongoing project ‘Home is where the Art is’; Working alongside her amazing curator, Jordan Clarke. Her project explores reflection, community, the space of home, dreams and collaboration. Each piece explores, even if only noticed on a subconscious level, how all things in life seamlessly bend & flow into each other to make one full experience. How all things in existence can be collaborated with. From our physical home space, the lands we are attached to and come from, and our innermost home - ourselves expressed outward. Each piece is a celebration of this fact and the people and spaces that make us who we are in some way or another.