Wilf Tilley
"Chiaroscuro Self-Portrait"
Oil on Canvas | 10x7.1 in
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Wilf Tilley
"Anatomical Head Study #1 (Le Cere Anatomiche della Specola)"
Oil on Wood | 7.1x5.5 in
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Wilf Tilley
"Oil Sketch Study For Manami 2023"
Oil on Canvas | 9.1x6.1 in
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Wilf Tilley
"Friedrich Nietzsche In the Manner of Ben Turpin"
Oil on Paper | 11.8x7.9 in
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"Portrait Sketch Of A Young Venetian Woman (After Dürer)"
Ink on Linen Canvas | 14.2x11.4 in
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"Expressionist Study For Fedora Hat Portrait"
Oil on Canvas | 11.6x8.3 in
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"Study After Lovis Corinth (Bacchantenzug)"
Ink on Canvas | 10.6x15.8 in
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"The Philosopher And The Robot"
Oil on Canvas | 8.9x6.1 in
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"A Model Of Disordered Mental Time"
Ink on Linen Canvas | 8.3x6.3 in
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"Study Of Two Young Women In Kimono"
Oil on Canvas | 8.5x7.5 in
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"Anatomical Head Study #2 (Le Cere Anatomiche della Specola)"
Oil on Linen Canvas | 9.8x7.9 in
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"Self-Portrait In A Disagreeable Mood"
Mixed Media | 9.7x7.3 in
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"A Zen Model Of Two Blots Discussing Morphology"
Oil on Paper | 7.7x6.3 in
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"Portrait Of A Young Woman (Eyes Closed)"
Oil on Cardboard | 6.9x4.5 in
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"The Cosplayers: DSK As John Wilmot"
Oil on Canvas | 13.1x9.5 in
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"The Wrong Person"
Oil on Canvas | 11.6x8.3 in
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"Self-portrait examining a life-form with no consciousness..."
Oil on Canvas | 18.9x13 in
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"Junge Frau und lüsterner Alter (After Urs Graf)"
Ink on Linen Canvas | 13.4x11.4 in
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"Self Portrait With Sketch Of The Optic Nerve And Eye"
Oil on Aluminium | 11.8x9.5 in
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"A Green-Fluorescing Madonna"
Oil on Canvas | 16.3x11.6 in
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Biography
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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Nationality:
JAPAN
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains:
- 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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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 !
