Tamsin Relly, Pincushion 4, 2021
Monotype, 38 x 28cm
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.
This unique unframed print celebrates a flower native to the artist’s home country. The printing plate used, with curved top corners, results in an image which suggests a specimen captured in a bell jar, or perhaps a view through a stained glass window. Like all of Tamsin’s works on paper, the mark-making is fluid and light streams through; there are areas in the composition which shift from figuration to abstraction, creating a sense of ambiguity.
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 and Sid Motion Gallery, all in London. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions in Paris and Cape Town. 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 202 and 2022. Tamsin is based in south east London.
Monotype, 38 x 28cm
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.
This unique unframed print celebrates a flower native to the artist’s home country. The printing plate used, with curved top corners, results in an image which suggests a specimen captured in a bell jar, or perhaps a view through a stained glass window. Like all of Tamsin’s works on paper, the mark-making is fluid and light streams through; there are areas in the composition which shift from figuration to abstraction, creating a sense of ambiguity.
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 and Sid Motion Gallery, all in London. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions in Paris and Cape Town. 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 202 and 2022. Tamsin is based in south east London.
Monotype, 38 x 28cm
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.
This unique unframed print celebrates a flower native to the artist’s home country. The printing plate used, with curved top corners, results in an image which suggests a specimen captured in a bell jar, or perhaps a view through a stained glass window. Like all of Tamsin’s works on paper, the mark-making is fluid and light streams through; there are areas in the composition which shift from figuration to abstraction, creating a sense of ambiguity.
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 and Sid Motion Gallery, all in London. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions in Paris and Cape Town. 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 202 and 2022. Tamsin is based in south east London.
