Willliam Tillyer

BIOGRAPHY
2006
The Revisionist Wire Works paintings. Invited to work at the Castillo de Santa Catalina studios in Cadiz, Spain.
2005
Working on Encounter in a Third Style series of wire mesh paintings and also The Percival David Watercolours.
Bernard Jacobson publishes The Arcadian Quest Quartet series of digital prints.
Begins work on three-dimensional multiple entitled The Charterhouse Equation.
Commissioned to design a stained glass window for the Arts and Crafts Church at Gunnerton, Northumberland.
2004
Design an etched glass vase The Prague Vase.
2003
Invited to Tobago to work on In the South watercolour series.
2002
Exhibition and book Hardware: Variations on a Theme of Encounter.
2001
Working in New York State on The Bedford Hills Watercolours and also on a series of castings in silver and bronze at the Polich Artworks Foundry New York.
Invited to work in Co. Kerry Ireland at the Cill Rialaig Project entitled The Age of Anxiety Watercolours.
2000
Living and working in North Yorkshire on The Encounter Works of painted constructs.
Publication of Against the Grain a major monograph by Norbert Lynton.
1998
Working in North Yorkshire on The Paris Fluorescent Paintings.
Short-listed for the Jerwood Prize.
1997
Living and working in Paris on the Paris Enterior Series.
1995
Working in North Yorkshire on The Fluxion Paintings.
1994
Travelled to Italy visiting Florence, Ravenna and Mantua. Worked on The Black Haven Paintings.
1993
Visited Pennsylvania making a series of watercolours Falling Water based on the Frank Lloyd Wright house.
Worked on The Katchina Paintings.
1992
Invited with a group of artists to visit Ireland to make a series of drawings at the Lake Isle of Innisfree in order to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Yeats.
1990
Made the Living in Arcadia paintings.
Invited to work with Mixographia on large scale relief prints in Los Angeles. Also travelled through California and Arizona.
Received a commission to make the painting for Timberlake Wertenbaker Play Three Birds Alighting on a Field at the Royal Court. Commission for the Broadgate Development in London The Mechanics Institute II painting.
1989
Worked on ceramics with The Fulham Pottery.
1987
Moved to Westwood Studios in North Yorkshire, and worked on The Westwood Paintings.
1984
Travelled extensively through South Western America making drawings The Arizona By-Ways and The Los Angeles By-Ways.
Visited the John Wayne collection of Kachinas and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Taliesin, Phoenix.
1983
Travelled through France, Switzerland and Italy whilst working on The Grand Tour watercolour series.
1981
Appointed as Artist in Residence at Melbourne University in Australia. Visited Sydney, Adelaide and The Simpson Desert. Painted the Open Mesh canvases.
1980
Returned to live and work in North Yorkshire.
1978
Moved to Wiltshire and started working on the wire mesh/collage paintings.
1977
Spent time working in Sweden prior to the Gothenburg exhibition.
1975
Travelled to Utrecht for a retrospective exhibition of his work at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
Moved to Providence, Rhode Island, USA as visiting Professor at Brown University. Travelled through the Eastern States.
1974
Visited New York for the opened of his first one-man exhibition there.
Visited Los Angeles to work at Cirus Editions on The Bel Air Lithographs.
Moved into the London Bridge studio working on The Florist Paintings and also with Advanced Graphics on a portfolio of prints entitled A furnished Landscape.
Started work on the illustrations for A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
Spent the summer in Verona working on his first Hotel Room watercolours.
1970
Visiting Lecturer at Watford School of Art.
1968
Son York was born.
1967
Daughter Kim was born.
1964
Visiting Lecturer at Bath Academy of Art.
Visiting Lecturer at Central School of Art.
1963
Returned to London and married Judith Jackson.
Started part-time work at Chelsea School of Art, London.
Taught etching at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.
1962
Made first woodcut prints in Edinburgh. Awarded French Government Scholarship to study gravure under William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris.
1960
Studied painting under William Colstream and etching under Anthony Gross at the Slade School London.
1958
Visited Paris for the opening of the Unesco Building and the inaugural exhibition.
1956
Studied painting at Middlesbrough College of Art.
1938
William Tillyer was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain.
Bank of America.
Boston Museum of Art.
Bradford City Art Gallery.
Broadgate Centre, London.
Brooklyn Art Museum, New York.
Federal Savings Bank, Los Angeles.
Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas.
Manchester City Art Gallery.
Melbourne University, Australia.
Middlesbrough Art Gallery.
Milton Keynes Development Corporation.
Musuem of Art, Lodz, Poland.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Friedrickstad, Norway.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Holland.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
N.A.S.A., USA.
Northern Arts Association.
Norwich City Art Gallery.
Reading University.
Southampton University.
Southern Arts Association.
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
The British Council.
The Mellon Bank, London.
The Tate Gallery, London.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Westminster Bank, London.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
2004
Bernard Jacobson Gallery & Bernard Jacobson Print Gallery, London. Eton College, Windsor.
2003
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
2002
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Broadbent Gallery, London. Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia. Bernard Jacobson Gallery & Bernard Jacobson Print Gallery, London.
2000
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
1999
Charleston Gallery, Sussex. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
1997
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
1996
Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough.
1995
Beltoc Lowndes Fine Art Inc, Chicago. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Harewood Visual Arts, Leeds.
1994
Royal West of England Academy. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Wildenstien & Co. Ltd, London.
1993
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Adelson Galleries, New York.
1992
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Adelson Galleries, New York. Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles.
1991
Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Wildenstein & Co. Ltd, London. Everard Read Gallery, Johnannesburg.
1990
Images Gallery, Ohio, USA.
1989
Smith Anderson Gallery, California. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
1987
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. Louise Hallett Gallery, London. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.
1985
Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago.
1983
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, New York and Los Angeles.
1982
Melbourne University Gallery, Australia. Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney. Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney.
1981
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles.
1980
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London. Curwen Gallery, London
1978
Hobson Gallery, Cambridge. Nuffield Gallery, Southampton University. Ian Birkstead Gallery, London Stadia Graphics, Sydney. Gallery Malmgran, Gothenburg. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
1977
Komblee Gallery, New York.
1976
Galerie Ahlner, Stockholm.
1975
Galerie Jacques Bosser, Paris. Gallery Ariadne, New York. Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht. Neue Galerie Museum, Linz. Gallery 39, Manchester. ICA Galleries, London. Sunderland Arts Centre.
1974
Studio La Citta, Verona. Galerie Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris. Atmosphere Gallery, London.
1973
Galerie Multitude, Paris.
1972
Arnolfi Gallery, Bristol. Grafiska Saliskapet, Stockholm.
1971
Serpentine Gallery, London.
1962
Middlesbrough Art Gallery.