Sue Tilley, Dylan Meade & Fredrik Andersson: Transformations
Sue Tilley was born in South London, she was the muse and friend of the late fashion designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery and worked as the cashier for his notorious nightclub Taboo. In 1990 while working in a benefits office as a benefits supervisor she began to model for Lucian Freud appearing in his world famous portraits Benefits Supervisor Sleeping and Benefits Supervisor Resting. She is the Author of Leigh Bowery the Life and Times of an Icon published in 1997. Since she retired from the dole office and encouraged by club impresario Wayne Shires, Tilley set up a studio and began to make oil paintings. Turning herself from model and muse to artist she has shifted her gaze from domestic items and things about her home to self portraits and portraits made in homage to artists she admires.
Dylan Meade is a painter, performance artist and film maker who was born in Ireland. His work deals with pornography and the social body as well as homoeroticism of the male nude figure. His paintings are predominantly male nudes and the traditional surface of the painting is disrupted by plastic wrap, suggesting 鈥渢op shelf鈥� or obscene content, and also acting as a metaphor for sexual safety. The paintings feel like glimpses into a hidden world of desire, and permission, where the erotic has been unleashed.
Fredrik Andersson is a ceramicist and illustrator who makes colourful ceramic pieces about homo eroticism and desire, since graduating from university he has regularly shown his ceramics and is stocked by Liberties of London.
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Sue Tilley was born in South London, she was the muse and friend of the late fashion designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery and worked as the cashier for his notorious nightclub Taboo. In 1990 while working in a benefits office as a benefits supervisor she began to model for Lucian Freud appearing in his world famous portraits Benefits Supervisor Sleeping and Benefits Supervisor Resting. She is the Author of Leigh Bowery the Life and Times of an Icon published in 1997. Since she retired from the dole office and encouraged by club impresario Wayne Shires, Tilley set up a studio and began to make oil paintings. Turning herself from model and muse to artist she has shifted her gaze from domestic items and things about her home to self portraits and portraits made in homage to artists she admires.
Dylan Meade is a painter, performance artist and film maker who was born in Ireland. His work deals with pornography and the social body as well as homoeroticism of the male nude figure. His paintings are predominantly male nudes and the traditional surface of the painting is disrupted by plastic wrap, suggesting 鈥渢op shelf鈥� or obscene content, and also acting as a metaphor for sexual safety. The paintings feel like glimpses into a hidden world of desire, and permission, where the erotic has been unleashed.
Fredrik Andersson is a ceramicist and illustrator who makes colourful ceramic pieces about homo eroticism and desire, since graduating from university he has regularly shown his ceramics and is stocked by Liberties of London.
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