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Tamlin Blake
Tamlin Blake at work in 2009
Born1974
Johannesburg
NationalitySouth African
Websitetamlinblake.com

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]

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[edit]

Education[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 150th Anniversary of the Groot Trek 40c Crossing the Drakensberg
    150th Anniversary of the Groot Trek 40c Crossing the Drakensberg
  • Triangular - 1d deep brick-red - 1853
    Triangular - 1d deep brick-red - 1853
  • Triangular - 4d deep blue - 1853
    Triangular - 4d deep blue - 1853
  • 3rd Definitive Issue 3c Protea neriifolia
    3rd Definitive Issue 3c Protea neriifolia
  • Standardised mail, Nguni Bull
    Standardised mail, Nguni Bull
  • Blood Sweat and Tears
    Blood Sweat and Tears
  • BabySkins CEO and PHD
    BabySkins CEO and PHD
  • Abundance (Nguni Hide)
    Abundance (Nguni Hide)
  • Falling into Herself
    Falling into Herself
  • Flight
    Flight
  • Silhouette
    Silhouette
  • Taking Time
    Taking Time
  • Waiting
    Waiting
  • Wallpaper
    Wallpaper

Works[edit]

Inherited Space[edit]

Mural at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch.[11]

Awards[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Profile". Tamlin Blake. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Cape Listings". ArtThrob. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Journey / Change of Address / Wildenboer". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  4. ^ "SA beadwork has post office stamp of approval".
  5. ^ http://bell-roberts.com/?exhibition=104
  6. ^ "Previous". Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Tamlin Blake -".
  8. ^ http://www.spier.co.za/news/tamlin_blake_tapestries/ [dead link]
  9. ^ "亚洲有无码Av在线播放,肉体裸交137日本大胆摄影,综合激情丁香久久狠狠,亚洲欧美春色校园另类小说".
  10. ^ ""Private Spaces" by Tamlin Blake". Cape Town Today. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  11. ^ a b "Inherited Space". Spier Arts Academy. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  12. ^ "Ireland". Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  13. ^ http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/HI-PDF/Bulletin-16-2.pdf [bare URL PDF]

External links[edit]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamlin_Blake