Joe Tilson

Joseph Charles Tilson RA (born 24 August 1928 in London) is an English pop art painter, sculptor and printmaker.[1] Married in Venice 1956,[2] Joslyn Morton (Jos) (b. 1934, Edinburgh) Children:[3] Jake (b. 1958, London), Anna (b. 1959, London), Sophy (b. 1965, London)

Early life and education

Tilson served in the Royal Air Force (1946–49),[4] after which he studied in London at St Martin's School of Art (1949–52)[5] and the Royal College of Art (1952–55),[4] London where he received the Rome Prize,[4] which took him to Italy for a year in 1955. He returned to London in 1957, and from 1958 to 1963 he taught at St Martin's School of Art,[6] and subsequently taught at the Slade School of Fine Art,[6] University College London and The School of Visual Arts, New York and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg.[6] In 1961 he exhibited at the Paris Biennale.

Pop Art

During the 1960s Tilson became one of the leading figures associated with the British Pop Art movement. Making use of his previous experience as a carpenter and joiner, Tilson produced wooden reliefs and constructions as well as prints and paintings.[7] As a student at the RCA Tilson associated with Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, R. B. Kitaj, Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney.[8]

His first one-man show was held at the Marlborough Gallery, London in 1962.[6] In 1977 he joined the Waddington Galleries and also exhibited at the Alan Cristea Gallery and the Giò Marconi Galleries in Milan. Tilson's work gained an international reputation when shown at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1964,[6] which led to a retrospective at the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam in 1964. Further retrospective exhibitions followed at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1979 and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol in 1984.[4]

1970s

Growing disillusionment with the consumer society led to a change in Tilson work in the 1970s.[4] After moving to Wiltshire in 1972, Tilson began to use a wider variety of materials, including stone, straw and rope in an effort to transcend time and culture by drawing on the motifs of pre-Classical mythology. This body of work was called Alchera.

1990s

His work has been exhibited regularly in solo shows throughout the world: Cortona Centro Culturale Fontanella Borghese, Rome (1990), Plymouth City Museum (1991), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (1995), Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana (1996) and Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Cesena (2000). Recently a major retrospective was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2002). Among Tilson's awards are the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960) and the Grand Prix d'Honneur, Biennale of Ljubljana (1996). He is a Royal Academician and his career was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition in 2002 at the Royal Academy ‘Joe Tilson: Pop to Present’ (Sackler Galleries) from April 2002. Invited to paint the banner for the "Palio", Siena in 1996[4][9]

He is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London[6] and Alan Cristea Gallery, London.[4]

Joe Tilson lives and works in London and Italy

Selected Books and Catalogues

Joe Tilson: Pages (exh. cat., London, Marlborough F.A., 1970) ASIN: B000KCXLN6
Joe Tilson (exh. cat., Rotterdam, Mus. Boymans–van Beuningen, 1973) [with texts by the artist]
A. C. Quintavalle: Tilson, preface P. Restany (Milan, 1977) ASIN: B005IV7UKO
Tilson Alchera. Notes for Country Works, Marlborough Gallery (1976)ASIN: B00CE48WDM
Gillo Dorfles: Maestri contemporanei: Tilson, (Milan, 1982)
Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco: Opere recenti: Extra Moenia, (Todi, 1992) M. Compton and M. Livingstone: Tilson (London and Milan, 1993) ISBN 8886264003
Enrico Crispolti: Terracotta e maiolica; sculture e rilievi, (Imola, 1995)
Mel Gooding: Tilson: Pop to Present, (Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002)
Enzo Di Martino: Tilson, The Printed Works – L’Opera Grafica 1963–2009, preface by Phillip Rylands and texts by Alan Cristea, Enzo Di Martino, Joe Tilson, Papiro Arte (2009) ISBN 8870604985
Venice, 2009 (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010) Joe Tilson – a Survey, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd (24 Feb 2013)ISBN 1904373054

Solo exhibitions

[10] 2013 Marlborough Fine Art, London. Joe Tilson : A Survey
2012–13 University of Ljubljana
2012 Bugno Art Gallery, Venice
2009 Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2008 Bugno Art Gallery, Venice
2007 Waddington Galleries, London
2006 Palazzo Doria, Loano (retrospective)
Menhir Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia
2004 Beaux Arts Gallery, London
2002 Royal Academy of Arts, London (retrospective)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Beaux Arts Gallery, London
2001 Castelbasso, Abruzzo (restrospective)
Giò Marconi Gallery, Milan (retrospective)
1999–2000 Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, touring to Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Cesena and Pinacoteca Civica, Follonica
1999 Peter Guyther Gallery, London
Theo Waddington, Boca Raton, Florida
Castello Doria, Porto Venere
1998 Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
Marino alla Scala, Milan
1997 Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (prints retrospective)
1996 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana
1995 Westend Galerie, Frankfurt
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1994 Pinacoteca, Macerata
Galleria Rotta, Genova
1993 Multimedia, Brescia
Gio Marconi, Milan
Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola
Heter A Hunermann Galerie GmbH, Düsseldorf
1992 Extra Moemia, Todi
Waddington Graphics, London
Waddington Galleries, London
1991 Plymouth City Museum
Tour Fromage, Aosta
Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne
1990 Centro Culturale Fontanella Borghese, Rome
Fortezza Medicea, Cortona
1984 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (retrospective)
1979 Vancouver Art Gallery (prints retrospective)
1978 Tate Gallery, London (prints)
1976 Marlborough Fine Art, Marlborough Graphics, London
1971 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (retrospective) touring to Belgium and Italy
Waddington Galleries, London
1970 Marlborough New London Gallery, London
1968 Galleria Ferrari, Verona
Galleria de’Foscherari, Bologna
Galerie Brusberg, Hanover
1967 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome
1966 Marlborough New London Gallery, London
1965 Kunstamt Renickendorf, Berlin
Stadt Museum, Recklinghausen
Kunstverein, Braunschweig
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1964 Marlborough New London Gallery, London
British Pavilion, XXXII Venice Biennale
Modern Galerija, Zagreb
1963 Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
University Art Gallery, Nottingham
1962 Marlborough New London Gallery

Public Collections

[10] Tilson’s art is held in collections internationally including the Tate Gallery, London; MoMA, New York and the Stedelijk, Amsterdam.

Appleton Museum, Florida
Arts Council England, London
Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Bristol City Art Gallery
British Council, London
British Library, London
Christchurch College, Oxford
Contemporary Art Society, London
Dunedin Art Gallery, New Zealand
Ferens Gallery, Hull
Galerie der Stadt, Aachen
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Museo Civico di Torino, Turin
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Gentofte Kommunes Kunstbibliotek, Copenhagen
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Kunsthalle, Basel
Kunstmuseum, Hannover
Kunstverein, Hamburg
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Leamington Spa Museum
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas
Museo de Arte Moderna de Bahia, Salvador
Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad Bolivar
Museo de Arte, São Paulo
Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum voor Schone-Kunsten, Antwerp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
New College, Oxford
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
Portsmouth Museum
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Southampton Art Gallery
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate, London
The Royal Collection
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Università di Parma
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Tilson". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.baacorsham.co.uk/cached/Joslyn%20Tilson.htm
  3. ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=raFfIfWABWcC&pg=PA359&lpg=PA359&dq=joslyn+morton&source=bl&ots=4PbzHv0rUZ&sig=8u2W_NBYFMXHgY2iN1WUUZhbHic&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xh0HU4iLHqaA7Qbq-YGwCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=joslyn%20morton&f=false
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Joe Tilson". Alan Cristea Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Joe Tilson". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Joe Tilson". Marlborough Fine Art.
  7. ↑ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joe-tilson-2043
  8. ↑ "Joe Tilson". Waddington Custot Galleries. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.ilpalio.org/pittori900.htm
  10. 1 2 http://www.marlboroughfineart.com/biography-Joe-Tilson-179.html

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