Imagining The Amazon
21 January - 23 June 2017
Garden Room, The Collective, House of St Barnabas, 1 Greek Street, Soho Square, London W1D 4NQ
Viewings by appointment: info@alteriaart.com
Imagining the Amazon is an installation of new paintings and monotypes by Tamsin Relly, curated by Alteria Art at The Collective, House of St Barnabas, London.
The exhibition explores the relationships between wild and cultivated jungle environments; and the preservation of these ecosystems through conservation, remote constructed greenhouses and our imaginations. While celebrating the wonder and bio-diversity of life in the world’s rainforests, Relly’s work considers the fragility and decline of these habitats through deforestation and climate change.
Set against the backdrop of the rainforest-inspired wallpaper in the Garden Room, the exhibition reflects on how notions of exotic environments are woven into the every-day through art, design and popular culture. ‘I’ve always taken comfort in the idea of wilderness, but as more of our natural spaces are cultivated, developed or polluted, perhaps any truly untouched nature is at risk of living only through our imaginations.’
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Find images of the work here.