'Tis pity she’s a whore ... (2022) Painting by Wilf Tilley

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Fine art paper, 10x8 in
  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Wood
  • Dimensions Height 21.3in, Width 16.5in
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Conceptual Art Love
The title of this automatic painting, from the Black Paintings series, is after the tragedy by John Ford (1586-1639), first performed between 1626 and 1633. The play, as provocative as its title, has had a mixed reception throughout its history. And I suspect it will receive further opprobrium in the current cultural climate. There is a notable movie [...]
The title of this automatic painting, from the Black Paintings series, is after the tragedy by John Ford (1586-1639), first performed between 1626 and 1633. The play, as provocative as its title, has had a mixed reception throughout its history. And I suspect it will receive further opprobrium in the current cultural climate. There is a notable movie adaptation by Peter Greenaway in “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” (1989). Executed in oil color over black gesso on plywood panel, the style of the brushwork and the open spacing are partly inspired by classical Chinese and Japanese ink painting – although the medium is oil color.

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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen [...]

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater 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. He studied English and European Literature with Italian before a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art, and co-organized fundraising exhibitions for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-apartheid movement: the latter at the Royal Academy of Arts, 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. While at the institute he designed and supervised installation of 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 second retrospective was held at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo in 2017. And a recent portrait, "Manami-san (2023)", was chosen for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, and toured five galleries nationally (2023-2024). As the co-author of several neurological case studies, Wilf addressed a conference in Japan in 2017 on mental time as a neuroscientific phenomenon, using the techniques of classical rhetoric – as described in the Ad Herrenium – to elucidate episodic memory. He is now working on a panel series, A story in silico, connected with personal memory, nostalgia and fabulation, and recently published two short stories about the art world in the Ekphrastic Review (2022 and 2023).

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