Last Login: 3 May 2012
About
Tamsin van Essen is a British designer based in London. She specialises in conceptual design and has recently been using the medium of ceramics to explore scientific and medical themes. Her work sits at the interface between design and art, with one-off collectables and conversation pieces.
Resume
RECENT/FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Skin
Wellcome Collection, London until 26 Sept 2010
CraftDesign
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague 16-31 Dec 2009
Okolo
Design Supermarket, Prague 10-13 Dec 2009
White Out
Spring Design & Art, Brooklyn NY 15 Oct - 15 Nov 2009
Nature and Other Anomalies
Commissaires, Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal 24 Sept - 30 Nov 2009
Design for Science
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto 17 Sept - 28 Nov 2009
Wish List 'Li Edelkoort'
Pierre Bergé, Salles des Beaux Arts, Brussels 10-13 Sept 2009
Al-Sabah Art & Design Gallery
Kuwait 7 June - 5 July 2009
Collect 2009
Saatchi Gallery, London 14-17 May 2009
Kirkcaldy Museum
Fife 9 May - 21 June 2009
Small Show Huge Talent
Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, London 22 -29 March 2009
Maison & Objet
Paris-Nord Villepinte, Paris 23-27 Jan 2009
Medical Museion
Copenhagen 21 Jan - 12 April 2009
Galerie Sofie Lachaert
Tielrode, Belgium 23 Nov 2008 - 11 Jan 2009
Tina B: Transient Boundaries
Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague 25 Sept - 15 Oct 2008
Designersblock
Kithkin Presents... No.1 Covent Garden Piazza, London 18-21 Sept 2008
Kithkin Window
Selfridges & Co, Duke Street, London 5 Sept - 25 Oct 2008
Object as Muse
Crafts Council touring, Winchester Discovery Centre 8 Aug - 19 Oct 2008
Galerie Vernon (solo show)
Prague 23 June - 14 Sept 2008
Pulse
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 1-3 June 2008
KithKin Some Rights Reserved Launch
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan 16 - 21 April 2008
Fragiles
Gallery 113, Kortijk, Belgium 15 Feb - 9 Mar 2008
Nobel Museum
Stockholm 6 Feb - 31 Aug 2008
Art Hand Design
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London 14 Jan - 20 Feb 2008
Interiors Birmingham
Future Trends, NEC Birmingham 20 - 23 Jan 2008
Design Miami
Marcy Building, Miami, FL 6 - 9 Dec 2007
Museum of Science and Industry
Manchester 10 Nov 2007 - 2 Jan 2008
100% Design Tokyo
Container Ground, Jingu Gaien Aoyama, Tokyo 31 Oct -1 Nov 2007
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum (solo show)
Lambeth High Street, London 1-19 Oct 2007
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (solo show)
Blackfriars Lane, London 27 Sept 2007
New Designers Selection
Oxo Tower Gallery, London 20-23 Sept 2007
KithKin Presents… @ Designersblock
Designersblock, Shoreditch High Street, London 19-23 Sept 2007
Designboom: Handled with Care
Designersblock, Shoreditch High Street, London 19-23 Sept 2007
Sunderland Museum
Sunderland 18 Sept - 28 Oct 2007
New Designers
Business Design Centre, Islington, London 5-8 July 2007
Central Saint Martins Degree Show
London 16-21 June 2007
Pulse
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 3-5 June 2007
CSM Design Innovation
The Innovation Centre, Red Lion Square, London 14-18 May 2007
Xhibit 07
The Arts Gallery, Davies Street, London 15 March-13 April 2007
Direction 2007
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London 22 Jan-17 March 2007
Location
London, United Kingdom
Specialties
- Industrial Design
Awards
Wellcome Trust Design4Science Competition (2nd prize) 2007; Chartered Society of Designers Award 2006; William Atkinson Scholarship, Central Saint Martins 2006
Website
www.vanessendesign.com
