Tamsin Grainger
Clipp’d Wings - a flight of collective fancy, foam board, paper, feathers, by Tamsin Grainger, March 2021
Tamsin Grainger is a Walking Artist, writer and Shiatsu practitioner. Mother of two beautiful grown women, she uses a variety of media to say what she needs to. Walking is at the heart of her work, whether with birds along coastlines, plants on cycle paths, or a camera on secular pilgrimage. Death and eco-grief have been at the centre of her practice for many years. Loss and bereavement, in human and other-than-human species, are examined in ‘Clipp’d Wings’ (image / words / sculpture / community participation), Festivities and Delegates (wall hanging, textile and photography), ‘No Birds Land’ and ‘The Wall’ (two site-specific installations 2021 and 2022, both short-listed for Sound Walk September), ‘Precarious Edge’ and ‘Flying’ (films, shown at Art Walk Porty 2022, and Instant Vortex Plus+ 2023 respectively), and a bodywork guide (published by Singing Dragon/Hachette 2020).
Tamsin’s first solo show was held at the Granton Community Hub (Sep/Oct 2023) featuring maps (hand-drawn and stitched), photography (portraits and landscape), and installation (an internal version of the site-specific ‘The Wall’). She was lead artist on Forest Bound (art activities with community groups from the Chinese, Syrian and Polish communities while walking in the forest), curating an exhibition at Out of the Blue. She co-hosts community Death Cafes and Grief Circles which incorporate mandala making, was involved in art.earth’s Borrowed Time (A Death Walk for Life and online Tea Ceremony, 2021), and collaborated / co-curated with Bea Denton (artist) in the Re:living Weekend at Granton Hub (2022) which involved a Call to Artists who make work around loss and grief. A member of the Walking the Land artists collective, she is open to the complexity of feelings, and celebrates the beauty and inevitability of life and decay.
