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 print, created using an earthy, subtle palette, is the partner piece to the more vibrant ‘Where We Merge 2’. Both prints are characteristic of the artist’s light filled images which suggest a shifting uncertainty. To create these one-off prints, the artist paints onto a perspex plate, allows the paint to partially dry, and then damp paper is placed onto the painted plate before being passed through a printing press. The magic is in the unpredictability of the process, where, as Tamsin notes, ‘there is always an element of surprise’.

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, 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.

Tamsin's most recent work has been made whilst living and working ‘off grid’ with her family in rural Cornwall. This is one of a series of luminous new monotypes printed directly from leaves and dried flowers. As is constant in Tamsin's practice, the man-made is in dialogue with the wilderness in these works; the artist has printed from dried wildflower husks as well as outdoor and indoor plant leaves (the latter having dropped off naturally). Each resulting print is delicately layered; in Tamsin's words, the process of building up the image 'almost becomes a dance'.

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 and 2022. 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.

Archival pigment print, 54 × 50cm, edition of 20

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 unframed limited edition print is one of a pair that used Polaroid photographs taken in Telegraph Hill Park, south east London, as their starting point. For ‘Out of the Night’, the artist edited the original photograph to create a colour-negative version, which, with its layered, dynamic quality, explores ideas of memory and impermanence. Printed with archival pigments, these prints will far outlive the original Polaroids, a medium which, although loved for its fleeting sense of nostalgia, is prone to fade.

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 and 2024. 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.