About the Artist
British (1928 -)
An early experimenter with printmaking in the 1960s, Joe Tilson works to unsettle the tension between serialised production and an artwork’s status as unique.
Tilson excelled as a craftsman from an early point in his life. He first worked in a realist style during the 1950s, but adopted the commercial sheen of pop art in the 1960s.
Tilson began creating prints during this decade, using consumer imagery, yet his work retained a handmade quality. He painted directly on the prints, making unique pieces from editioned series. The artist also added sculptural elements to his work, blurring the distinction between two- and three-dimensional space and disregarding any medium-specific hierarchies.
His art later evolved away from pop content to address mythology and rural living, but Tilson has maintained the same interest in the handmade throughout his career.
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
£2,100
H 75 cm x W 65cm
Woodcut with paint
Framed
1992
Ships from: United Kingdom
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About the Artist
British (1928 -)
An early experimenter with printmaking in the 1960s, Joe Tilson works to unsettle the tension between serialised production and an artwork’s status as unique.
Tilson excelled as a craftsman from an early point in his life. He first worked in a realist style during the 1950s, but adopted the commercial sheen of pop art in the 1960s.
Tilson began creating prints during this decade, using consumer imagery, yet his work retained a handmade quality. He painted directly on the prints, making unique pieces from editioned series. The artist also added sculptural elements to his work, blurring the distinction between two- and three-dimensional space and disregarding any medium-specific hierarchies.
His art later evolved away from pop content to address mythology and rural living, but Tilson has maintained the same interest in the handmade throughout his career.