Artist statement:
Fixated with trees, I represent them as fussy interlopers within my scenes. Constantly working through this motif I hoped to explore in greater depth my own preoccupation with branch, limb and leaf. To this end, I insert the tree as a proxy for myself to serve as a living conduit, inserted into the work to investigate and explore my own preferences as a painter. Recent works on canvas now luxuriate within this almost-figuration, the potential these rhizomatic forms represent, twisting, turning and transforming into a distinct and deeply personal language of abstraction. Within the rhizome I found pathways into my subconscious through shape and memory.
Fixated with trees, I represent them as fussy interlopers within my scenes. Constantly working through this motif I hoped to explore in greater depth my own preoccupation with branch, limb and leaf. To this end, I insert the tree as a proxy for myself to serve as a living conduit, inserted into the work to investigate and explore my own preferences as a painter. Recent works on canvas now luxuriate within this almost-figuration, the potential these rhizomatic forms represent, twisting, turning and transforming into a distinct and deeply personal language of abstraction. Within the rhizome I found pathways into my subconscious through shape and memory.
2021- Group show with Rachel Wharton and Matt Thomas at Next Door gallery, Didsbury, Manchester.
2021- Manchester Art Fair Exhibitor.
2019-2021 MA Painting, Manchester School of Art Final MA Show, Holden Gallery Private View 30th September.
June 2020- April 2021, a total of 7 painting commissions completed independently.
2016-2019 BA Fine Art Painting, UAL Wimbledon College of Arts (First Class Honours)
2019- Nominated and runner up for the Prunella Clough Residency prize at Wimbledon College of Arts.
2019- Joint Exhibition 'For Love or Money' Copeland Gallery, Peckham.
2018- 2019 Part time Gallery Assistant at Drawing Room, London.
2018- Joint exhibition with Mathilda Roach Osborne at The Flying Dutchman, Camberwell.
2017- Tate Exchange with painting research.net, Tate Modern.
2015-2016 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Leeds College of Art.
"Tillotson’s paintings and the thinking that goes into them speak to me, because too often we are required to be strictly logical and rational, imposing a specific order onto our lives. What she is able to capture, however, in her carefully portrayed landscapes infused with mystical and imaginative figures, is the limited power of those analytical modes of engaging." Claude Pink, The Anarchist Milk Collective, 2020
2021- Manchester Art Fair Exhibitor.
2019-2021 MA Painting, Manchester School of Art Final MA Show, Holden Gallery Private View 30th September.
June 2020- April 2021, a total of 7 painting commissions completed independently.
2016-2019 BA Fine Art Painting, UAL Wimbledon College of Arts (First Class Honours)
2019- Nominated and runner up for the Prunella Clough Residency prize at Wimbledon College of Arts.
2019- Joint Exhibition 'For Love or Money' Copeland Gallery, Peckham.
2018- 2019 Part time Gallery Assistant at Drawing Room, London.
2018- Joint exhibition with Mathilda Roach Osborne at The Flying Dutchman, Camberwell.
2017- Tate Exchange with painting research.net, Tate Modern.
2015-2016 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Leeds College of Art.
"Tillotson’s paintings and the thinking that goes into them speak to me, because too often we are required to be strictly logical and rational, imposing a specific order onto our lives. What she is able to capture, however, in her carefully portrayed landscapes infused with mystical and imaginative figures, is the limited power of those analytical modes of engaging." Claude Pink, The Anarchist Milk Collective, 2020
