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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]

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

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
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    Triangular - 1d deep brick-red - 1853
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    Triangular - 4d deep blue - 1853
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    3rd Definitive Issue 3c Protea neriifolia
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    Standardised mail, Nguni Bull
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    Blood Sweat and Tears
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    BabySkins CEO and PHD
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    Abundance (Nguni Hide)
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    Falling into Herself
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    Flight
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    Silhouette
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    Taking Time
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    Waiting
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    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

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