Sculpture (MA)
Tamir Erlich
Education: (2020) MA in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London. full Scholarship from the Clore Foundation. (2017) Bachelor of fine art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Graduated with distinction (2016) The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Media Art Department (Erasmus Exchange)
Experience: Art director and founder of BIDUD residency (2020), Editor and co-founder of Koma6, Bezalel Art Department’s digital magazine (2015-2017). Visiting lecturer at a variety of universities such as Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2020), Farnham University for the Creative Arts (2020), University of the Arts London, Wimbledon (2019) University of Westminster (2019)
Selected Exhibitions: Haifa Museum (2020 forthcoming), the Israeli Center for Digital Art (Solo, 2018-19), The Wrong Biennale (2019), Standpoint Gallery (2019), New Ashgate Gallery (2019), Dyson Gallery (2019), Dyson Gallery, London, (2019), Spokjna gallery, Warshawa (2016), Hansen House, Jerusalem (2015, 2020), Beita gallery, Jerusalem (2016).
Grants and Awards: the Gilbert Bayes award of the Royal Society of Sculpture (2020), Clore Foundation - Bezalel full scholarship for MA at the RCA (2018-20) Mifal Hapais Project Grant (2018), Eileen Cooper Graduate Excellence Award, Bezalel Art Department (2017), Holon mayor Award for outstanding student in the field of art (2016), Leah Cheshin Excellence Award for painting and drawing, The Jerusalem Foundation (2015)
Sponsors
Clore Foundation
Dear visitor,
Following the COVID-19 crisis, I had to leave my studio and apartment in London. Therefore I suspended working on my RCA final show and retreated to my mother, who lives in Israel. During the lockdown, I stayed for a period in my small childhood home in Jesse Cohen neighborhood in Holon. The inability to leave the house led me to search for an extension of my relationship with the structure. I tried to create new perspectives and dimensions of the Housing-project structure, so I used 3D scanning technology to make a digital copy of the house, including its staircase. This technique is mainly used to simulate public spaces (and art exhibitions, especially during the crisis).
As I wandered into the new digital space, the domestic environment became alien and distant. It felt like I was facing the house for the first time. While working with the scan, I created "Download for Free Now," a site-specific project for the RCA digital platform. You are welcome to roam my mother's house and even download FOR FREE a selection of objects from her home. The files can be printed in 2D or 3D and displayed in your home or exhibition.
Special thanks to Noy Haimovitz, Omer Erlich, Smadar Tsook, Ronnie Karfiol and my mom Edna Erlich
