This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 12
Imants Tillers(born 1950)Surrender, 2001
26 August 2025, 18:00 AEST
SydneySold for AU$17,220 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Australian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
Alex Clark
Head of Sale, Senior Specialist
Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Imants Tillers (born 1950)
Surrender, 2001
synthetic polymer paint and gouache on 36 canvasboards, no. 70988 – 71023
177.0 x 131.5cm (69 11/16 x 51 3/4in).
synthetic polymer paint and gouache on 36 canvasboards, no. 70988 – 71023
177.0 x 131.5cm (69 11/16 x 51 3/4in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2003
EXHIBITED
Not yet post-Aboriginal, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 6 April – 2 June 2002
Imants Tillers: Recent Works, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne, 25 November – 19 December 2003
'The presence and absence of self is a conundrum at the heart of Tiller's work. It is bound up with concerns about origins and originality, the interactions of self and other. It is a question implicit in his long-term strategy of appropriating images from reproductions of artworks and other sources, and re-working them.
While issues of authorship may be challenging, Tiller's work is easily recognisable. The personal aspects of his approach reside in his remarkable canvasboard system, which involves both philosophical and practical approach, and in the specificity of his choices – be they visual, intellectual or intuitive. The personal aspects appear in the correspondences he discovers between the sources and his own experience, the unexpected juxtapositions and transformations that form new realities, the physical process of making the works and their sensuous, layered surfaces, in the content and presence of the art. Tillers has never denied his sources, he has always acknowledged the visual excitement and potency of the work that inspires him.' 1
The present work, Surrender, 2001, incorporates the work of indigenous artist Ivan Nolan. Panels A, B, and C were painted by Ivan and purchased by Tillers in the early 2000s.
1. Deborah Hart, Imants Tillers: One World Many Visions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 1