Tamsin Relly’s multi-disciplinary practice explores the reciprocal relationship we have with
our planet’s ecology and the ways in which we find connection with the living world. Recent projects consider the migration of plants and the preservation of botanical environments through conservation, urban parks and memory – be it personal, collective or held within the land. Research has led her to diverse locations including Svalbard in the Arctic Circle; boreal forests in Hämeenkyrö, Finland and the Eden Project in Cornwall.
South African-born and London-based, Relly received an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely in the UK and internationally. It has been included in group shows at Sid Motion Gallery, Informality Gallery, OHSH Projects and TJ Boulting in London and is held in the permanent collections of the National Maritime Museum, Imperial Health Charity and Simmons Contemporary in London. Solo exhibitions include: Forest Memory, Brocket Gallery, London (2017), Imagining the Amazon, House of St Barnabas, London (2016) and Jungle Snow, The Place Downstairs, London (2014). Relly has received two commissions from Hospital Rooms to make site specific work for mental health units in the UK. Residencies include: RE·THINK: Environment, National Maritime Museum, London; Hogchester Arts, Dorset and Pocantico, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York.
Selected group shows and awards
The Scale of Water, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa University, 2024
Polar Worlds, National Maritime Museum, 2019 - 2024
ARES, Cromwell Place, OHSH Projects, London 2023
Like There is Hope & I Can Dream of Another World, Hauser & Wirth X Hospital Rooms, 2023
Within Reach, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2022
Regeneration, Informality Gallery, Henley on Thames, 2022
Into the Light of the Present Day, Oliver Projects, London 2021
Site Work, Cornell University, New York, 2019
Dentons Art Prize, 2016 (Shortlisted)
Arcadia, Smith Gallery, Cape Town, 2016
Painter Printmakers, Keepers Room, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014
Publish / Curate, T J Boulting, London, 2014
Clifford Chance Post Graduate Printmaking in London 2012 (Shortlisted)
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023)
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Forest Memory, Brocket Gallery, London 2017
Imagining the Amazon, House of St Barnabas X Alteria Art, London, 2017
Jungle Snow, The Place Downstairs, London, 2014