Matilda Tumim & Chris Prendergast are based in North East Fife. They studied at Falmouth and the Royal College of Art, prior to moving to Orkney in 1989, relocating to Fife in 2015.
Tumim and Prendergast work with a variety of media, including stitch, paint, collage and ink. They have been commissioned to make permanent installations for schools, hospitals and voluntary organisations. They exhibit regularly and their work is held in public and private collections around the world.
Matilda Tumim
Education
1986-88 Post Graduate Fine Art Painting, The Royal College of Art, London
1982-85 Fine Art Degree, Falmouth School of Art
1981-82 Art Foundation, Chelsea School of Art
Chris Prendergast
Education
1982-85 Fine Art Degree, Falmouth School of Art
1981-82 Art Foundation, Winchester School of Art
New projects/awards
2025 - Brian's Brain, 20 drawings with verse. A picture book for older children about unpredictability and resilience.
2023 - Creative Scotland Open Funding awarded for the research and develop an artist’s book, The Child Who Heard Too Much
Exhibitions:
2025 More Than You Can Imagine, An Anthology Of Rare Experiences, Genetic Alliance UK, Westminster London
2023 Life Lines Online group exhibition with Fife Contemporary
2021 Surreal Estate WASPS Project Gallery, Meadow Mill,Dundee
2021 Screen Test Online group exhibition for WASPS artists
2019 WASPS Open Studios at Meadow Mill Dundee
2019 Little Originals Group exhibition at Dock Street Studios, Dundee
2017 The September Issue Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
2016 Bottled Up The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
2012 73 Leaves Embroidery installation, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Kings Cross, London
2012 Bread & Roses Motorcade Flash Parade, Bristol
2012 Embroidered Narratives Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2011 73 Leaves The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2011 Retrieve Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
2009 Small Volumes Timespan, Helmsdale
2009 TRAVELLING LIGHT WW and Pharos Galleries, London and Venice Biennale
2009 Impossible Exchange Frieze Art Fair, London
2008 Last Post Corsespace Aberdeenshire
2008 Anecdotal Evidence Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital (RACH)
2007 A Year of Consequence Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, Orkney
2007 Consequences Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
2006 Coupling Peedie Gallery, Arts Development Office, Orkney Island Council
2005 Wedded Stromness Public Library, Stromness, Orkney
2004 Foul Flora Weird Waves Loft Gallery, St Margaret's Hope, Orkney
Private & Third Sector Commissions
2012 73 LEAVES Embroidery Installation National Council for Voluntary Organisations Islington London
2007 The Gallant Weaver Cover artwork and design for choral settings of words by Robert Burns
2005 Constellation Drawing Commission for Tullimentan - The Pier Arts Centre
Talks & Presentations
2021 ArtistsTalk for the preview of Screen test online exhibition - Wasps Glasgow
2020 Presentation to architecture students at Westminster University
2020 Presentation for sponsored solo exhibition Surreal Estate
2010 Threads and Leaves - collaborative practice, Heriot Watt School of Textiles, Galashiels
2008 Presentation at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
2007 Consequences - A Musical Response, St. Magnus Festival, Kirkwall, Orkney
2006 Professional Practice and Crossover - Highlands & Islands Visual Arts, Hi-Arts, The Macphail Centre Ullapool
Publications
2025 More Than You Can Imagine - An Anthology Of Rare Experiences - Genetic Alliance UK - cover and feature
2024 Poem for Paul Klee - Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK Newsletter summer edition 2024
2011 Cover for Hoopla - The Art of Unexpected Embroidery by Leanne Prain - Arsenal Pulp Press
2011 Hoopla -The Poetic Stitch - Chapter on Tumim and Prendergast’s embroidery - Arsenal Pulp Press
2011 Participant in Words are all we have by Rachel Marsden, reflections on life as a curator
2009 Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital - Artworks 2 -publication celebrating the hospital's art programme
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