Tamsin Relly, Dock Leaf 1, 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.
A key part of Tamsin’s practice is working with unpredictable qualities of her materials. In this unframed unique print from a dock leaf, the bronze stain actually originates from the leaf itself. One of a group of works made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ in rural Cornwall, the gently leaning leaf impression sits on a vibrant yellow form reminiscent of a bell jar. Featuring the luminous quality that characterises Tamsin’s works on paper, the image also brings to mind a stained glass window.
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.
A key part of Tamsin’s practice is working with unpredictable qualities of her materials. In this unframed unique print from a dock leaf, the bronze stain actually originates from the leaf itself. One of a group of works made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ in rural Cornwall, the gently leaning leaf impression sits on a vibrant yellow form reminiscent of a bell jar. Featuring the luminous quality that characterises Tamsin’s works on paper, the image also brings to mind a stained glass window.
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.
A key part of Tamsin’s practice is working with unpredictable qualities of her materials. In this unframed unique print from a dock leaf, the bronze stain actually originates from the leaf itself. One of a group of works made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ in rural Cornwall, the gently leaning leaf impression sits on a vibrant yellow form reminiscent of a bell jar. Featuring the luminous quality that characterises Tamsin’s works on paper, the image also brings to mind a stained glass window.
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.
This short video explores Tamsin Relly’s experience of making this dock leaf print in a temporary pod studio in rural Cornwall, in summer 2022.
