Professional Bio
Ba Hons Fashion/ Textiles, 25yrs+ experience, TAP training.
Tamzen is a textile felt-maker. Born in Belfast, she works from her home in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. You will find her surrounded by fibre, up to her elbows in soap lather, dancing to the radio, chatting with her three kids and whooshing the cat off the table!
Experience
Awards
Emerging Artist Award, Craft NI "Pathways" Open call exhibition, 2023
Teaching Experience
Tamzen is a textile professional of 25+years’ experience.
Since 2020 she has worked on her own design and arts practice, returning to her first love of handmade textiles, and felt. After a career both in-house and freelance in Fashion design and Buying.
The process of wet felt making requires fibre, soap, water, and agitation, using your hands and imagination. Tamzen’s art practice is playful and experimental. She is inspired by stories and the Irish landscape.
She has a Ba Hons Degree ( 1st class) Fashion & Textiles. QQI level 5- Early Childcare and Creativity
Tamzen is a TAP trained artist (Teacher Artist Partnership). She has experience teaching in schools, libraries, and private workshops for both children, teenagers and adults.
Demonstrations- Live/ TV
Nationwide RTE1 2022 - Teaching- filmed, on behalf of Feltmakers Ireland
Showcase 2022- Feltmakers Ireland
Bloom in the park 2023- Feltmakers Ireland
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Professional Collaboration
Gather- Kildare Village, Pop Up Shop, Nov- Dec 2023, Supported by LEO and Kildare County Council
Picture shows Head of Enterprise Jacquai McNabb and Minister Neale Redmond- being presented a Fox Faux Taxidermy by Tamzen as a thank you gift on behalf of the LEO.
Tamzen has also worked closely with the Riverbank Arts and Theatre Centre, Newbridge. Showing her work in the Children's Gallery Space- together with a series of workshops. ( Exhibition 2022, workshops- seasonal '22, '23).
Exhibitions- Sold Artwork
2024: February: Brigid 1500, Kildare Town, “Lay of the Land” Sold, commissions taken.
2024: February Maynooth Community Library Solo Show, “Rock Pool” Sold
2023: August Pathways Exhibition, CraftNI, Belfast: Winner of Emerging Artist award “Extinguished” (NFS)
2023: October, Members exhibition Feltmakers Ireland, Phoenix Park, Visitors Centre, Dublin
“Bridges not Bombs”. ( picture featured).
2022- Nov- December: Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Solo Show. 4 pieces sold to Kildare County Council, Municipal collection.
Stones on Falcarragh Beach: Wool trapped in barbed wire: Macro flower detail 1:Rock and Barnacles
2022-August: Sculpture in context, Botanic Gardens, Dublin: “We are all connected”. (NFS)
Sustainability at heart
All packaging at Tamzen Lundy Designs is biodegradable/ compostable. Quite a lot of it is also reused- online orders are sent in an #UGLY BOX ( ie; reused and 2nd life).
Tamzen collects packaging from her neighbours year round, in an effort to minimise waste.
The main raw material in her quirky products is WOOL- and it doesn't get better than the carbon storing, biodegradable, fully sustainable wonder fibre that is wool!
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