All artworks by Wilf Tilley
Paintings • 77 artworks
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Works For Sale • 14 artworks
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Drawings, Sketches, Prints & Other Works • 96 artworks
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A collection of work in various media.
Ludic Models • 25 artworks
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This collection includes a number shown online as "A Preliminary Selection of Eighteen Ludic Models: [...]
This collection includes a number shown online as "A Preliminary Selection of Eighteen Ludic Models: Medical, Scientific, Religious, Economic, Political And Amorous..., and some from a gallery exhibition in Tokyo in 1998: Nine International Monetary Fun Devices And Other Works. The accompanying texts, deliberately overlong, pendantic and windy, are important to an appreciation of the models, and I have edited some for inclusion here. However, the models have a number of indirect causes, if no certain effects, the first of which is "Homo Ludens" (Johan Huizinga, 1938), which I first read when I was twenty. A small self-portrait as the inventor of ludic modelling, Pertinax Ludicrous Exomphalos, is now in the JCR collection of Pembroke College, Oxford. Other influences include Zen koan.
Political Sketches • 33 artworks
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Nothing ages more quickly than a cartoon or caricature since the dramatis personae and or issues of [...]
Nothing ages more quickly than a cartoon or caricature since the dramatis personae and or issues of importance change so quickly. However, here is collection of recent and past pictures. While the default category for these works is printmaking, there is a number of paintings and drawings.
A Fabulous Life • 43 artworks
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This series begins and ends with a self-portrait, and is connected with my interest as a neuroscientist [...]
This series begins and ends with a self-portrait, and is connected with my interest as a neuroscientist in mental time, memory and factitious disorder. I believe we compose our own life stories, using information both personal and borrowed – and in the case of factitious disorder there is a significant gap between what is real and what is made up. Furthermore, the images in this series – taken from films, books, personal experience – and increasingly, the internet – float, so to speak, upon a river of printed words from a novel I wrote some years ago about my early life as an actor (The Transmogrification of Toby Pickles). In that way, they suggest a fictional or fabulous life.
Ballon d'essai Series • 5 artworks
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A collection of revisionist interpretations of classical artworks of the Western canon. I have now lived [...]
A collection of revisionist interpretations of classical artworks of the Western canon. I have now lived in the east as long as I have lived in the west, and this has led to a revision of my ideas as to what is universal in art in terms of subject matter and technique.
Kobe Series • 5 artworks
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Six ink and oil wash drawings from the mid 1990s. The works were last exhibited in 1998 in Japan, but [...]
Six ink and oil wash drawings from the mid 1990s. The works were last exhibited in 1998 in Japan, but are now too fragile to show. The images shown here are cropped for online reproduction. Two works from the series are missing.
A History Of Ideas • 6 artworks
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A series of six, large drawings (originally nine) shown in Japan in the early 1990s, both in Kobe in [...]
A series of six, large drawings (originally nine) shown in Japan in the early 1990s, both in Kobe in an exhibition sponsored by the British Council, and in Tokyo. The drawings were restored and re-framed in 2001: 77 x 55 cm, pastel, graphite and chalk on Canson paper. (Private Collection, Japan)
A Selection Of Works From The Sutton Series • 11 artworks
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The works in this collection, placed in storage in the UK, in Oxford (1991) and later moved to a house [...]
The works in this collection, placed in storage in the UK, in Oxford (1991) and later moved to a house in the village of Sutton (hence the name), were retrieved in 2023, and catalogued in November of the same year. Some of the work was exhibited in the 1970s in London and executed at various addresses in Rome (and elsewhere in Italy) plus London and Riyadh. The portfolio consists of 48 works and provides a snapshot of the artist’s early work before moving to Japan for the first time in 1991 and finally in 1996. (The works shown here are organized chronologically (1976-1986) with details of their places of execution. The artist seal and numbers are catalogue additions made in 2023.)
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Biography
Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael W. Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theatre at The Old Vic in a production of Antony and Cleopatra in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear. “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. Following an MA degree at the Royal College of Art, London, an interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, where he designed a brain science exploratorium (BrainBox). Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan (The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works), in 2003. A novel (The Ladyboy Murders) was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers in 2015. In November/December 2017, he held a second retrospective at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo. And a recent portrait (Manami-san) is part of the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, touring five galleries nationally (2023-2024).
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Nationality:
JAPAN
- Date of birth : unknown date
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- Groups: Contemporary Japanese Artists
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Influences
Education
1987 - 1991
D.Phil: U. of Oxford: Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics:
United Kingdom
1981 - 1983
MA (RCA) Royal College of Art:
United Kingdom
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Achievements
Publications & Press
Solo Expositions
2017
Wilf Tilley: Artist & Neuroscientist:
Tokyo,
Japan
2003
The Neuromytheologian And Other Works:
Kobe,
Japan
2001
Founder & Designer, Brainbox Exploratorium, Japan Brain Science Institute:
Wako-shi,
Japan
1999
Nine International Monetary Fun Devices & Other Works:
Tokyo,
Japan
1998
Dirac's Equation & Other Works:
Karuizawa,
Japan
1997
Works Of Art, Science & Magic From Dr. Athanasius Miller's Cabinet Of Curiosities:
Tokyo,
Japan
1997
Wilf Tilley, New Work:
Kobe,
Japan
1996
Works On Paper Including Historical, Teratological Studies:
Kobe,
Japan
1977
First Solo Exhibition:
London,
United Kingdom
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All the latest news from contemporary artist Wilf Tilley
Added Sep 19, 2023
New Light Prize Exhibition
UK
Saturday
30
September
2023
Saturday
21
December
2024
New Light Prize Exhibition touring five locations in the UK including London. The portrait, "Manami 2023", shown on this website is part of the exhibition.
Added Oct 28, 2020
New Light Prize Exhibition Review
https://lancashiretimes.co.uk/article/New-Light-Prize-Exhibition---Wilf-Tilley-Satomi-2020
Added Aug 24, 2020
New Light Prize Exhibition
Scarborough, Tullie House, Biscuit Factory & Bankside Galleries
Saturday
19
September
2020
Wednesday
24
November
2021
The portrait painting listed on this site, Satomi 2020 #1, will be part of this exhibition touring four galleries in the UK, and finishing at the Bankside Gallery in London in late November 2021.
Reviews and comments
Thanks for your message. Best wishes, Wilf
Thanks for the great work about my countryman. Greetings from the city of Bruno Schulz from Drohobych (Дрогобич).
Sensitivity and refined artist, optimal comucation and artistic vision++++++
n'est-ce pas Tarkovski, cet immense cinéaste ?
Malheureusement nous sommes nombreux à avoir des chefs d'état monstrueux...
こんにちは、ウィルフ。ルネサンスのMar爵とマルケサスの作品、静物、肖像画、すべての作品が大好きです。 これらは見事に洗練されており、古典的な作品をおめでとうございます。 必要に応じて、Art-majorの私のサイトにアクセスできます。日本へのオマージュ、Saの先祖、そして日本で最も有名な剣の先祖を見つけることができます。 詩的な考え。 サム・ド・ボーリガード。。
Hello, Wilf. I love the works of the Marquises and Marquesas of the Renaissance, the still lifes, the portraits, all the pieces. They are magnificently refined and I congratulate you on your classical work. If you want, you can visit my site on Art-major, where you will find the homage to Japan, the ancestor of the Samurai and the ancestor of the most famous sword in Japan. Poetic thoughts. Sam de Beauregard. .
Bonsoir Wilf, j' adore tes oeuvres tes Marquis et Marquises, de la Renaissance ,ta nature morte, tes portraits, toutes tes créations. qui sont peaufinées magistralement,et je te félicite pour tes créations classiques. Si tu veux bien , tu peux aller visiter mon site sur Art-majeur, tu y trouveras un Hommage au Japon,ancestral sur les Samouraïs et sur le sabre, le plus prestigieux du Japon : Le HONJO MASAMUNE; Pensées Poétiques . Sam de Beauregard.
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Une huileuse toile sublime qui met en lumière la divinité du créateur que vous êtes , Bravo l'Artiste pour cette magnifique réalisation !
