'Tis pity she’s a whore ... (2022) Painting by Wilf Tilley
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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 main title of this work, 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 – hence the subtitle. 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 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
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Japanese Artists
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