Studio Sale | Tyler Watson
26 JUNE 2022 - 13 JULY 2022Notes
Tyler Watson is a British artist best described as a Post Pop Figurative Painter, he focuses on the ‘everyday’, through the themes of ‘interior as landscape’ and ‘nostalgia’.
The Brass Band Plays was a painting featured in Watson's Degree show at Middlesex University back in 2018. Taking influence from the relationship between the fairground and british pop art, Watson's painting evokes memories of the seaside games, puppet shows and distant memories.
In his practice he reimagines the most domestic and mundane of objects as if they were held in higher esteem. This has become a commentary on the often overlooked importance of everyday life. The somewhat disjointed nature between the paint, the image and the artist, become apparent as he tends to subtract his own emotion from the painting, leaving the image to speak its own truth and remain more ambiguous.
In recent years he has begun to reflect more deeply on the details of his everyday surroundings. The mundane became a symbol of daily ritual. A symbol he was then drawn to incorporate in his artwork as a glimpse of his everyday life as an artist.
Accolades
Education
MA Fine Art (Distinction), The University of Hertfordshire
BA Fine Art, Middlesex University
Selected Exhibitions - 2017, Whatever You Say, Islington Arts Factory, London. 2017, The State of Art, The Nunnery Gallery, London. 2018, Free Range, The Truman Brewery, London. 2018, Recent Graduates Collection, Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London. 2019, HYPER COLOUR POP CULTURE, Alon Zakaim Gallery, London. 2019, AucArt Lab Residency Exhibition, Aucart Lab, London. 2019, The Christmas Auction, Menier Gallery, London. 2020, Outsiders, Candid Arts, London. 2021, New Blood, Broadway gallery, Letchworth Garden City. 2022, The Crossover Project, The Royal Exchange, London.
Collections and other notes
Signed with and in the collection of Sir Paul Smith
Creates artwork for Liberty London
Socials Media
Instagram @tylerwatson.art
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