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Imants Tillers
Australian artist, curator and writer
Imants Tillers (born 1950), is an Australian artist, curator and writer. He lives and works in Cooma, New South Wales.
Early life and education
Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950,[1] the child of Latvian immigrants.[2] In 1973 he graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Hons), and the University Medal.[3]
Career
Tillers held his first solo exhibition in the early 1970s.
During the following decade, he started producing his paintings using a system of small canvas boards, with the individual boards either stacked, or hung in a grid-like fashion to create large tableaux.[2]
His artworks are complex, infused with intellectual references to a wide range of topics, including history, poetry and philosophy, as well as his own personal experiences.[2]
Tillers also produced a number of collaborative works with Warlpiri arti