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Meet the artist - 'From the Studio' - Imants Tillers exhibition opening

18/4/2018

 
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Please join the artist for the exhibition opening at The University Gallery, Saturday 21 April at 2pm.

Since 1981, Imants Tillers has been using his ‘canvasboard system’, in which multiple painted 
boards are arranged in grids to form large-scale paintings. Also known as the Book of Power, the project was inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s idea that ‘everything in the world exists to end up a book’. Through this system, Tillers’ aims to accommodate of ‘all modes of expression: from the trivial to the serious, the banal to the profound’. Using predominately appropriated imagery, Tillers combines existing artworks and texts to address a wide range of themes. Each canvasboard is numbered on the reverse, beginning at the number one, in November 1981, and ascending methodically towards the goal of infnity. The present count has exceeded 108,000. 

From the Studio presents 10 paintings made up of approximately 840 of these panels. The works are drawn from Tillers’ personal collection and span four decades of his career, from the 1980s to the present. They address issues of power, identity and diaspora and also chronicle a shift in Tillers’ practice towards increasing layers of imagery and text. In the early 1990s, textual references such as poetry and place names gradually made their way into Tillers’ vortex, becoming crucial elements of the work. Around this time his technique also changed from a more painterly style to his now distinctive method of masking, cutting and layering. From the Studio underlines the scope, continuity and cumulative power of the ‘canvasboard system’. 

A University Gallery Project – curated by Olivia Sophia 

"Brilliant Tilley" until 14 April

5/4/2018

 
Don't miss the opportunity to view the incredibly accomplished works by Newcastle artist and PhD candidate Peter Tilley, showing at the University Gallery until 14 April 2018.

Read about it in the recent wonderful review 'Brilliant Tilley' by the Newcastle Herald here

And if you can't make it in person, view the exhibition installation and read the catalogue on our 2018 exhibitions page.

PETER TILLEY
SEEING THE SHADOW
21 March - 14 April 2018
The University Gallery
The University of Newcastle




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