Tamsin Van Essen — Biographie — Slash Paris

Born in 1975, Royston, UK
Lives and works in London, UK

SOLO Exhibitions

2008

Galerie Vernon, Prague, Czech Republic

2007

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, Lambeth High Street, London, UK
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Blackfriars Lane, London, UK

Collective Exhibitions (Selection)

2012

Peaux d’Âmes, NextLevel Galerie, Paris, France
Mirrors & Candles, Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Temse, Belgium

2011

Virus: bad news wrapped in protein, The Barn, St Johns College, Oxford, UK
Artifact, Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK
Le Décor est Planté, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France
FLUX, Wallspace, London, UK

2010

Skin, Wellcome Collection, London, UK

2009

CraftDesign, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Okolo, Design Supermarket, Prague, Czech Republic
White Out, Spring Design & Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Nature and Other Anomalies, Commissaires, Montreal, Canada
Design for Science, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
‘Wish List’ Li Edelkoort, Pierre Bergé, Salles des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Al-Sabah Art & Design Gallery, Kuwait
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Kirkcaldy Museum, Fife, Scotland
Working Title, Designers block, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, Italy
Small Show Huge Talent, Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, London, UK
Medical Museion, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008

Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode, Belgium, Belgium
Tina B., Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Designersblock, Covent Garden Piazza, London, UK
Object as Muse, Crafts Council, Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester, UK
Some Rights Reserved, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, Italy
Fragiles, Gallery 113, Kortijk, Belgium, Belgium
Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Interiors Birmingham, Future Trends, NEC Birmingham, UK

2007

Design Miami Marcy Building, Miami, Florida, USA
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK
100% Design Tokyo, KithKin, Container Ground, Jingu Gaien Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
New Designers Selection, Oxo Tower Gallery, London, UK
Designboom: Handled with Care, Designersblock, Shoreditch High Street, London, UK
Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, UK
New Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington, UK
Xhibit 07, The Arts Gallery, Davies Street, London, UK

Commissions

2011

Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire UK

2008

Crafts Council, UK
House of Fraser, UK
Tina B., Prague Czech Republic

Awards

2007

Wellcome Trust Design for Science competition (second prize)

2006

Chartered Society of Designers, Student Design Award
William Atkinson Scholarship, Central Saint Martins
Public Collections
Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada
Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, London, UK

Education

2010-2012

MA Ceramics & Glass Royal College of Art, London

2007

BA (Hons) Ceramic Design (1st) Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design,
London

1998

BA (Hons) Physics & Philosophy (2:1) Balliol College, Oxford University