10 Interesting Joe Tilson Facts

Tuesday, April 29th 2014. | People


Joe Tilson facts provide the detail information about the English pop art sculptor, painter, and printmaker. He was born with the full name Joseph Charles Tilson on 24th August 1928 in London. Are you curious to know more about Tilson? See the following post below:

Joe Tilson Facts 1: family life

Tilson married to Joslyn Morton in Venice 1956. Both have some children. Those are Jake, Anna, and Sophy.

Joe Tilson Facts 2: education

During 1946 to 1949 Tilson served the Royal Air Force. It was so surprising that Tilson finally ends up as a painter and sculptor.   After he served in the military, he went to St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1949 to 1952.

Joe Tilson

Joe Tilson

Joe Tilson Facts 3: Royal College of Art

Education is very important to Tilson. After he graduated from St Martin’s School of Art in London, he was enrolled to Royal College of Art. His talent and skill made him earned a Rome Prize. He was very lucky because the prize enabled him to travel to Italy for a year to study more about arts in 1955.

Joe Tilson Facts 4: St Martin’s School of Art

In 1957, he went back to London. Then he tried as a job as a teacher in St Martin’s School of Art. Then he became a teacher in various schools and universities such as Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg and The School of Visual Arts, New York.

Joe Tilson Art

Joe Tilson Art

Joe Tilson Facts 5: Paris Biennale

His breakthrough as an artist could be seen when he exhibited his work of arts at Paris Biennale in 1961.

Joe Tilson Facts 6: British Pop Art movement

One of the important artists in British Pop Art movement is Tilson. This movement was flourished in 1962.  His works of arts were unique and impressive since Tilson had valuable skill and experiment when he worked as a joiner and carpenter in the past.

Joe Tilson facts

Joe Tilson facts

Joe Tilson Facts 7: arts

Some of his wonderful arts can be seen in the form of paintings, prints, and wooden reliefs.

Joe Tilson Facts 8: associates

There are many famous artists linked to him when he studied at Royal College of Art. Some of them include R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake, David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones, and Leon Kossoff.

Joe Tilson Pic

Joe Tilson Pic

Joe Tilson Facts 9: Marlborough Gallery

He had an exhibition in Marlborough Gallery in 1962.  It was considered as the first man event for Tilson.

Joe Tilson Facts 10: exhibitions

There are many exhibitions that he had done to display his works of arts.  Some of them were in Alan Cristea Gallery, Waddington Galleries, and Marconi Galleries.

Joe Tilson Work

Joe Tilson Work

His international reputation is when he had an exhibition in 1964 at XXXII Venice Biennale. Do you have any opinion on facts about Joe Tilson?


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