Imants tillers artist information biography

Imants Tillers is an artist, writer and curator. He has exhibited extensively since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at significant international exhibitions such as the São Paulo Bienal (1975), the Biennale of Sydney (1979, 1986, 1988, 2006), Documenta 7 (1982) and the Venice Biennale (1986).

Imants tillers artist information biography

Tillers came to prominence during the early 1970s and has been an influential advocate of conceptual art and postmodern discourse in Australia. He works primarily with appropriation, intuitively combining existing artworks, philosophy and literature as 'ready-made' poetry in his imagery.

In 1981 Tillers developed a system of painting in which multiple canvasboard panels fit together to form large, gridded works. The individual boards are numbered from 1 towards infinity and are considered to be part of a continually-expanding whole, collectively titled the “Book of Power”.

Tillers' canvasboard paintings have explored a range of themes over the past four decades including a