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Tamsin Relly - For The Sun Gods
27 February - 28 March -
Tamsin Relly - For The Sun Gods
Zuleika Gallery is delighted to present For the Sun Gods, an online exhibition of new works on paper by London-based artist, Tamsin Relly (b.South Africa 1981). Relly’s multi-disciplinary practice includes painting, printmaking and photography and explores the preservation of arboreal and botanical environments through conservation, urban parks, and memory – be it personal, collective or held within the land.
For The Sun Gods features a new series watercolours and monotypes, which considers the origins and global migration of wild and cultivated plants and flowers, whilst reflecting on the interdependent and reciprocal relationship we have with our vegetal world. Drawing from both found media imagery and first hand observation, Relly’s references include the Dahlia, indigenous to the mountain regions of Mexico and Guatemala, and the South African Pincushion Protea, a tropical flowering shrub native to the artist’s own home country. Working with the fluid and unpredictable qualities of painting and printmaking, these botanical forms break down and lose focus whilst retaining a vibrancy of colour, evoking memories of warmer summer days.
Much of the series has been made in response to frequenting parks in London over the past year of the pandemic and a visit to Worton Organic kitchen garden in Oxfordshire between stretches of lockdown in 2020. During a period when our own movement as individuals has been so restricted, spending time in living green spaces is increasingly recognised as important for personal wellbeing, bringing into question the inequality within our communities around access to parks and gardens.
The works in this exhibition are shown with prices including VAT and unframed, please get in touch for information about framing.
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Tamsin Relly pictured in her studio. Photo by Agne Kucinkaite
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For the Sun Gods: Online exhibition of watercolours and monotypes by Tamsin Relly
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