Painting titled "Never Mind The Voxe…" by Wilf Tilley, Original Artwork, Oil

Never Mind The Voxels, Find The Boundaries (2021) Painting by Wilf Tilley

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas

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Dimensions Height 20.9in, Width 17.9in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Conceptual Art Science

How we form ideas is less of a mystery than it was. A voxel is a three-dimensional unit representing about a million neurons, and used in functional magnetic resonance imaging to represent, via blood flow, localized brain activity. We can watch which parts of the brain are involved in different thinking tasks. Furthermore, psychologically speaking, the brain has what one might call, narrative boundaries: it perceives new stories in terms of familiar ones. When I walk into an unfamiliar building, an airport, for example, I can usually navigate my way around by identifying features familiar to other airports I have visited. Furthermore, my visit, like a book, is divided into chapters. There is a number of different activities I must perform before reaching the final chapter and taking my seat on the plane. Each boundary between activities thus marks a scene change. Although the humanoid “characters” in this painting may, at first, look unfamiliar – after all, the painting does not pretend to visualize three dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane like most classical western art – they do suggest an interactive story of some sort. (Oil over black gesso on Funaoka Canvas Panel: 53 x 45.5 cm.)

Wilf Tilley

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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[...]

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).