JAKE TILSON

Jake Tilson is an artist, graphic designer and author working in London. He has produced magazines conceived as collaborative artworks, notably ‘Cipher’, 1979-81 and ‘Atlas’, 1985-93. A pioneer of early website design his award winning website ‘The Cooker’ 1984, was featured in 'World Art Series - New Media in Late 20th Century Art', Thames & Hudson. A retrospective of his work, Investigations in Cities 1977-1997, was held at the Museo International de Electrografía in 1997. His cookbook, A Tale of 12 Kitchens, published in 2006, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and was shortlisted for both the Andre Simon Food & Drink Award and the Glenfiddich Food & Drink Award. In 2009 he exhibited with the Japanese artist Kyoichi Tsuzuki at The Wapping Project in ‘A Net of Eels’, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.

He travels widely, always aware of the objects and spaces that define everyday life, as well as their tastes, smells, sounds and graphic messages. He absorbs those thousands of minute signifiers that most people enjoy but take for granted, and which he uses to transform experience into art.

Jake is currently working on his second cookbook – about fish.
He is married to the Scottish ceramic artist Jennifer Lee.

Contact

contact@jaketilson.com
www.jaketilson.com
+44 (0) 7701 7245

DILLWYN SMITH

Dillwyn Smith studied painting at Canterbury College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art where he gained an M.A (1986), his graduation show won the prestigious Barclays Award. Subsequently he has had many one man exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad. In 2006 he embarked on a collaboration with Nelsons Homeopathic company inspired by the energy in colour.

In 2007 he received The Bryan Robertson Trust Award. In the same year he was instrumental in developing Delfina Foundation which facilitates cross-cultural exchange and collaboration via artist residencies. In April 2008 he co-produced, and collaborated in “La Tierra de Nadie” a visual response to the Alhambra Palace, Grenada, for Delfina Foundation at the invitation of the Hay Festival.

Smith's focus is on the energy, sensitivity and dialogue in the human being. His most recent exhibition ‘The Art of Intention' was installed in a living space in Bethnal Green, it incorporated paintings, film, bespoke clothes , kirlian drawings and incorporated 'Intention' a choreographed work made with dancer Noel Wallace and performed there, it was subsequently performed at Wilton's Music Hall.

Dillwyn has also, for many years, been a visiting artist and lecturer at the National Gallery, London.

Contact

dillwyn@talktalk.net
www.dillwynsmith.com
+44 (0) 7780 674 329