Tamlin Blake
Tamlin Blake (born 1974) is a South African mixed media artist living and working in Riebeeck West. The major themes of Blake's work revolve around cross-cultural South African symbols of wealth and status and, more recently, what constitutes and underpins each individuals sense of belonging.[1] Her sculptural pieces often transcend boundaries between illustration, craft, and art, using weaving, beading, and drawing, amongst other media.[2]
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Born | 1974 |
Nationality | South African |
Website | tamlinblake |
The main body of Blake's beaded art works took the form of South African stamps finely woven using glass seed beads.[3][4] “By replicating these original stamps in a traditional craft idiom that has such a strong association with indigenous African cultures , Blake offers a genteel but acerbic reference to [South Africa’s] troubled past.” (Innes 2012: pg20 ISBN 978-0-620-52880-1).
While working on her own bead art Blake helped Jeanetta Blignaut, to establish a bead studio which today exists as the Qubeka Bead Studio, a collaborative owned by the bead artists themselves.
After this Tamlin used a variety of different media including three-dimensional pieces in felt and beads to explore the use of farm animals as valued commodities and symbols of wealth and status across the boundaries of race and culture.[5][6]
Blake's more recent work consists of tapestries woven out of recycled and hand-spun newspaper [7][8] a collection of which were bought by The Spier Holdings Contemporary Art Collection [9]
Career
Education
Blake received a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Stellenbosch in 2001.[10] Blake majored in sculpture during her undergraduate studies, and then specialised in botanical art.[11]
Select group exhibitions
- Brett Kebble Art Awards, Merit Award, Cape Town (2003)
- Synergy, exhibition of contemporary bead art at Iziko Michaelis Collection, Cape Town (2005–2006)
- South African Art: Signs, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava (2007)
- Skin-toSkin: Challenging Textile Art, Kaunas Art Biennial TEXTILE 07 in Lithuania (2007)
- Spier Contemporary Exhibition, Cape Town (2007–2008)
- South African Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China (2010)[1]
- Tamlin Blake, presented at the Spier Booth at the FNB Joburg Art Fair (2012)Spier presents Tamlin Blake at the 2012 Joburg Art Fair
Collections
- Contemporary Collection for The New Hollard House at Villa Arcadia Hollard Insurance
- The Spier Holdings Contemporary Art Collection Spier
- South African Breweries
- Meulensteen Collection, Slovakia
- Nandos (UK)Nandos
- Water Colour Society of Ireland at the University of Limerick (Ireland)[12]
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)[1][13]
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
Gallery
- 150th Anniversary of the Groot Trek 40c Crossing the Drakensberg
- Triangular - 1d deep brick-red - 1853
- Triangular - 4d deep blue - 1853
- 3rd Definitive Issue 3c Protea neriifolia
- Standardised mail, Nguni Bull
- Blood Sweat and Tears
- BabySkins CEO and PHD
- Abundance (Nguni Hide)
- Falling into Herself
- Flight
- Silhouette
- Taking Time
- Waiting
- Wallpaper
Works
Inherited Space
Mural at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch.[11]
Awards
- Merit Award, Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town (2003)
- Silver medal, Kirstenbosch Biennale, Kirstenbosch Gardens, South Africa (2002)
- Silver-Gilt medal, Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art Show, RHS, London (2002)
- Top graduate student of the year, Department of Fine Art, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
References
- "Profile". Tamlin Blake. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- "Cape Listings". ArtThrob. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- "Journey / Change of Address / Wildenboer". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- "SA beadwork has post office stamp of approval".
- http://bell-roberts.com/?exhibition=104
- "Previous". Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- "Tamlin Blake -".
- http://www.spier.co.za/news/tamlin_blake_tapestries/
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- ""Private Spaces" by Tamlin Blake". Cape Town Today. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- "Inherited Space". Spier Arts Academy. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- "Ireland". Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/HI-PDF/Bulletin-16-2.pdf