Tamsin Relly

Tamsin Relly (b. South Africa 1981) is a London based visual artist whose work includes painting, printing and drawing. After establishing her practice in South Africa, she moved to London and completed her Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. She has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and South Africa and her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections locally and abroad. Recent exhibitions include: Painter Printmakers at the Royal Academy of Arts; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012, 2013 and 2014; Publish/Curate at TJ Boulting in London; Honore at Gallery Rue Visconti, Paris; Time to Hit the Road at Leila Heller Gallery in New York and solo exhibition, Jungle Snow, at The Place Downstairs in London. Recent residencies include The Arctic Circle – a two week expedition by ship in the Svalbard region of the Arctic Circle and The Gerson Zevi Land Art Road Trip in the Southwest of the United States.

Relly’s practice explores the effects of contemporary consumer-based lifestyles on the balance of the Earth’s ecosystem. Drawing from snapshots of day-to-day life, nature and images found in the media she works with the fluid and unpredictable qualities of her materials and process...

2011 – 2012
CITY & GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL Masters in Fine Art.

RESIDENCIES
2015
THE POCANTICO CENTRE RESIDENCY, Rockefeller Estate, NY
REMEMBERING THE NORTH,
RE·THINK Space, National Maritime Museum, London
2014
LAND ART ROAD TRIP, Gerson Zevi

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
JUNGLE SNOW The Place Downstairs, Curated by Stuart Evans, London
2012
TIPPING POINT ASC Window Space, London.
RECENT WORK Salon 91, Cape Town.
2007
INTERFACE Guga S’Thebe, Langa, Cape Town.
2006
GUERRILLA STUDIO Vide E Caffe, Cape Town.
2004
SOURCE Sandbaai, South Africa.
1999
BENEATH THE SURFACE Le Bon Ton, Cape Town.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
WHISPERS
Ronchini Gallery, London

2014
THE WINTER SALON, 8 Pembridge Place, London
PAINTER PRINTMAKERS, RA ART SALES, Keepers House, Royal Academy of Arts, London
TIME TO HIT THE ROAD, Gerson Zevi / Leila Heller Gallery, NYC.
FNB JOBURG ART FAIR, Commune 1, Johannesburg, South Africa.
MULTIPLIED ART FAIR, Alteria Art, London.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS IN YORKSHIRE, Curated by Norman Ackroyd, Zillah Bell Gallery, North Yorkshire
PUBLISH CURATE / T J BOULTING GALLERY, London
CITY & GUILD OF LONDON ART SCHOOL Zillah Bell Gallery, North Yorkshire.
TRACE HONORE, Paris.
SUMMER EXHIBITION Royal Academy of Arts, London.
LONDON ORIGINAL PRINT FAIR Royal A...