Tanya Court is the Director of Tanya Court Projects, a multidisciplinary practice drawing on her landscape architecture and artistic skills. Most recently Tanya was the Program Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Adelaide. Tanya joined the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in 2006 from the University of Melbourne.
Tanya has over 30 years of professional practice experience, specialising in civic and institutional landscapes, with many of her design projects winning Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) awards. She has been a member of many AILA judging panels, a member of the SA State Government Design Review panel, the Public Art round table for Adelaide City Council (2011-2012), and was the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture AILA SA Chapter President from 2011 – 13.
Tanya’s arts based practice includes a sculpture commission, helmet, with Cassandra Chilton installed at Heide Museum of Modern Art, the site where Nolan painted his iconic series on the kitchen table of Heide. In 2009 this project won an AILA Vic Award for Design, Special Commendation for Art in the Landscape. Her project’s have won accolades such as the 2009 PIA SA Minister’s Award for Planning Excellence as well as a 2009 AILA SA Award for Planning. Her project, Balaclava Walk, with MGS Architects was awarded the Australia Award for Urban Design in 2006 for its integrated transport and public transport focus.
Tanya has specialist design knowledge in working with South Australian arid ecologies including through projects her with students on the disused coal mine and town camp at Leigh Creek and an on ongoing project, The Roxby Downs Horticultural Plan that responds to the planting needs of the town particularly in the context of climate change.