Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
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 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.

Education
MA Fine Art-City and Guilds of London Art School 2011

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Selected Group Exhibitions: 
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 
Painter Printmakers, Keepers Room, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014
Arcadia, Smith Gallery, Cape Town, 2016
Site Work, Cornell University, New York, 2019
Arcadia, Smith Gallery, Cape Town, 2016
Painter Printmakers, Keepers Room, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014
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

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Offering 1-4 is a series of unique prints made in support of War Child. Each monotype is made from flower husks used as reverse stencils in the printing process. Found growing wild in city gardens and sidewalks, the dried stems are placed as one might lay a posy or flower at an altar or shrine shapes of which are echoed by the layers in the images

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