THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Tanya Lasagne is a conceptual and performance artist whose work explores nostalgia, identity and the paradoxes of parochialism.  She won the Waterhouse Prize in 2002 for The Tide Is High, an entirely empty room in which twenty kippers were secreted behind the walls and beneath the floorboards, comprising a work that was entirely olfactory.  For a performance piece in the grounds of the London’s Streatham Gallery in 2010, she created the world’s biggest lasagne, weighing 4,000 kg and comprising 1,500kg of pasta sheets.  In 2012, Lasagne exhibited a four-hour film of herself having a fox-and-hounds tattoo inked onto her buttocks and lower back. The tattoo featured a pack of hounds chasing a fox, visible only by the tail disappearing into her anus.