Tamsin Relly, Delicious Monster 2, 2022
Monotype, 28.5 x 25.5cm
South Africa-born artist Tamsin Relly moved to London in 2009 and received her MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her multi-disciplinary practice, which includes painting, printmaking and photography, reflects on our shifting global climate, and considers the erasure and construction of wilderness.
Tamsin's most recent work has been made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ with her family in rural Cornwall. This is one of a series of unframed luminous monotypes printed directly from leaves and dried flower husks. As is constant in Tamsin's practice, the man-made is in dialogue with the wilderness; in these works, the ‘Delicious Monsters’ have been printed from indoor cheese plant leaves (the leaves having fallen off naturally). Each resulting print is delicately layered, the veins of the leaf - its life force - clearly visible. In Tamsin's words, the process of building up the image 'almost becomes a dance'.
Tamsin’s work has been exhibited and collected widely in the United Kingdom and internationally, appearing in group exhibitions at The Royal Academy of Arts, The National Maritime Museum, SMITH, Cape Town and Galerie Rue Visconti, Paris. Her work is held in collections such as Spier and Ellerman House in South Africa, and Hogan Lovells, Dentons and the National Maritime Museum in London. She has had solo exhibitions hosted by The House of St Barnabas, The Place Downstairs, and Brocket Gallery all in London. Oliver Projects has presented Tamsin’s work in several group exhibitions including ‘Drawing Closer’ in 2020, ‘Into the Light of the Present Day’ in 2021, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. Her work was also shown at Sid Motion Gallery, London, in autumn 2022, in a group exhibition titled ‘Within Reach’. Tamsin is based in south east London.
Monotype, 28.5 x 25.5cm
South Africa-born artist Tamsin Relly moved to London in 2009 and received her MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her multi-disciplinary practice, which includes painting, printmaking and photography, reflects on our shifting global climate, and considers the erasure and construction of wilderness.
Tamsin's most recent work has been made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ with her family in rural Cornwall. This is one of a series of unframed luminous monotypes printed directly from leaves and dried flower husks. As is constant in Tamsin's practice, the man-made is in dialogue with the wilderness; in these works, the ‘Delicious Monsters’ have been printed from indoor cheese plant leaves (the leaves having fallen off naturally). Each resulting print is delicately layered, the veins of the leaf - its life force - clearly visible. In Tamsin's words, the process of building up the image 'almost becomes a dance'.
Tamsin’s work has been exhibited and collected widely in the United Kingdom and internationally, appearing in group exhibitions at The Royal Academy of Arts, The National Maritime Museum, SMITH, Cape Town and Galerie Rue Visconti, Paris. Her work is held in collections such as Spier and Ellerman House in South Africa, and Hogan Lovells, Dentons and the National Maritime Museum in London. She has had solo exhibitions hosted by The House of St Barnabas, The Place Downstairs, and Brocket Gallery all in London. Oliver Projects has presented Tamsin’s work in several group exhibitions including ‘Drawing Closer’ in 2020, ‘Into the Light of the Present Day’ in 2021, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. Her work was also shown at Sid Motion Gallery, London, in autumn 2022, in a group exhibition titled ‘Within Reach’. Tamsin is based in south east London.
Monotype, 28.5 x 25.5cm
South Africa-born artist Tamsin Relly moved to London in 2009 and received her MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her multi-disciplinary practice, which includes painting, printmaking and photography, reflects on our shifting global climate, and considers the erasure and construction of wilderness.
Tamsin's most recent work has been made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ with her family in rural Cornwall. This is one of a series of unframed luminous monotypes printed directly from leaves and dried flower husks. As is constant in Tamsin's practice, the man-made is in dialogue with the wilderness; in these works, the ‘Delicious Monsters’ have been printed from indoor cheese plant leaves (the leaves having fallen off naturally). Each resulting print is delicately layered, the veins of the leaf - its life force - clearly visible. In Tamsin's words, the process of building up the image 'almost becomes a dance'.
Tamsin’s work has been exhibited and collected widely in the United Kingdom and internationally, appearing in group exhibitions at The Royal Academy of Arts, The National Maritime Museum, SMITH, Cape Town and Galerie Rue Visconti, Paris. Her work is held in collections such as Spier and Ellerman House in South Africa, and Hogan Lovells, Dentons and the National Maritime Museum in London. She has had solo exhibitions hosted by The House of St Barnabas, The Place Downstairs, and Brocket Gallery all in London. Oliver Projects has presented Tamsin’s work in several group exhibitions including ‘Drawing Closer’ in 2020, ‘Into the Light of the Present Day’ in 2021, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. Her work was also shown at Sid Motion Gallery, London, in autumn 2022, in a group exhibition titled ‘Within Reach’. Tamsin is based in south east London.
