abouT Tamsin van Essen

Tamsin van Essen is a London based artist working mainly in ceramics. Her work is primarily concept driven, exploring notions of beauty and impermanence through examining scientific, medical and social historic themes. She is interested in aesthetic ambiguity, particularly the fragile boundary between attraction and repulsion, and how these seemingly contradictory sensations can exist simultaneously. Material experimentation is a strong characteristic of her work, probing the technical qualities of ceramics and the limits of its behaviour.

She has exhibited extensively throughout the world, including at the Sévres Museum Paris, the Saatchi Gallery, Brighton Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, the Nobel Museum and other prestigious international locations. Her work features in the permanent collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Wellcome Collection and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum in London.