Imants Tillers

The Tears of Things

Across these visual planes, Tillers has inscribed linguistic landscapes: place names, evocative words and fragments of text are combined to create spatialised, concrete poems. Like an urtext, words are embedded in the terrain of Tillers' canvasboards; language is conceived as the original landscape, inseparable from the visual.

Exhibition Dates: 24 July – 16 August 2008
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Lacrimae Rerum (for Dzidra), 2007
acrylic, gouache on 288 canvasboards nos. 80293 - 80580
304.8 x 914.4 cm

Act of God, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 28 canvasboards nos. 83115 - 83142
127 x 178 cm

Autumn Sun, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 72 canvasboards nos. 81124 - 81195
228.6 x 284.5 cm

Kosciusko, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 77 canvasboards nos. 80979 - 81055
223.5 x 284.5 cm

Nature Speaks: AL, 2007
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 80741 - 80756
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: AT, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 81268 - 81283
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: AU , 2008
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 81284 - 81299
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: AV , 2008
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 81300 - 81315
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: AW, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 83143 - 83158
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: CE, 2005
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 71966 - 71981
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: E, 2005
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 75922 - 75937
101.6 x 142.4 cm

Nature Speaks: R, 2006
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 78856 - 78871
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: S, 2006
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 78872 - 78887
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: W, 2006
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards nos. 78935 - 78950
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Nature Speaks: X, 2006
acrylic, gouache on 16 canvasboards, nos. 80013 - 80028
101.6 x 142.2 cm

Outback: N, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 54 canvasboards nos. 81460 - 81513
228.6 x 213.5 cm

Spring Frost (for G. B.), 2008
acrylic, gouache on 54 canvasboards nos. 78536 - 78589
228.6 x 213.5 cm

Blossoming 10, 2007
acrylic, gouache on 54 canvasboards nos. 80173 - 80226
228.6 x 213.5 cm

In the Winter, 2008
acrylic, gouache on 54 canvasboards nos. 83288 - 83341
228.6 x 213.5 cm

Nature Speaks: Y, 2006
from the series Sung into Being
synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboards no. 80141 - 80156
100 x 141 cm

Imants Tillers The Path Itself
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019

Group Show, Archibald Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2019

Group Show, The Like Button
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018-19

Imants Tillers Journey to Nowhere
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, 2018

Imants Tillers In Normal Times
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017

Imants Tillers 5 Martin Place Commission
5 Martin Place, Sydney, 2015

Imants Tillers Dreamings: Aboriginal Australian Art meets De Chirico
Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, 2014

Imants Tillers New Acquisitions in Context
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2013-14

Imants Tillers Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013

Imants Tillers Tabula Rasa
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2012

Group Show, Groups Who
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011-12

Imants Tillers A Poem of the Land
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010

Imants Tillers The Tears of Things
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008

Group Show, Summer '07 '08
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007

Imants Tillers Imants Tillers: one world many visions
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006

Group Show, Photosynthesis
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1994

Group Show, Strange harmony of contrasts
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990