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Sloots, Tamsin

Tasmin Sloots

MAC Candidate

Art Conservation Program

People Directory Affiliation Category
Art Conservation
M.A.C.

Stream: Treatment

Specialization: Paper

Areas of Interests: Archives and Counter Archives, Textiles, Book Arts

Tamsin holds an Advanced Diploma in Textiles from Sheridan College鈥檚 School of Craft and Design(2015), a BFA in printmaking and art history from NSCAD University (2017), and an MA in Women and Gender Studies from Saint Mary鈥檚 University (2022). Their MA research used feminist materialist, queer, and autotheoretical scholarship alongside hand-knitting a sweater to examine ephemeral, bodily, and anarchival knowledge-making practices.

Before arriving at Queen鈥檚, Tamsin worked across the cultural sector as an artist, arts administrator, instructor, gallery manager, fashion technician at NSCAD University, and conservation intern with the Nova Scotia Museums. While at the Nova Scotia Museums, Tamsin documented, cleaned, and repaired a collection of 19th-century hand-painted geological maps, and helped stabilize and mount artifacts for display.