Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Artist Talk 1 : Tamsin Morse

We kick of this year's series of artist talk with Cambridge-based painter Tamsin Morse.

All welcome!

(Please note, the talks now take place on a Tuesday afternoon, in Trimesters 1 & 2, weeks 4 and 8, starting at 2pm in Cos 124. Do share and encourage your students to attend)

Tamsin Morse uses picture making to highlight perceptions of acceptable codes of conduct through painting. Infused with humour, her subject matter is quite serious; she sees herself as a storyteller, infusing images she finds online, through AI, or from magazines, with imagination, and observational drawing.
Morse’s paintings are scenes of a stage set. Subjects include the imbalance of the sexes; power levels; territorial ambitions; hierarchies; the striving for compartmentalisation, labelling, definition of the self in pursuit of ‘fairness’ and consequential paradoxes. She is influenced by contemporary culture, news, political events, and her own experiences. The use of animals reflects the animal that is base in us all, and how domestic animals can be echoes of our own thoughts. Colours border on toxicity whilst edging on the beautiful, reflecting contradictions in the subject matter to portray injustice as a state of the world, sometimes in its tiniest form.

Morse has BA from the Slade and an MA from Chelsea. She has exhibited across the UK and internationally. Represented by One in the Other Gallery, London before taking a break to raise a family, recent exhibitions include: ‘Staged’, Studio 1.1 London, ‘Outliers’, Quip & Curiosity, Cambridge (with Jo Chate), both 2024; A Generous Space 2, New Art Gallery Walsall); WomXn with Fair Art Fair at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, both 2022; Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021. Work in collections include The Government Art Collection; The New Art Gallery Walsall; The Zabludowicz Collection; Timothy Taylor; The Open University; The University of the Arts, London and other private collections.
Morse has also run several Arts Council supported studio complexes to provide affordable workspaces for artists, including Trafalgar Works, Brighton and Hove, and currently Milton Studios, Cambridge.

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