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zegalba · 4 months
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Sue Tilley: Illuminate, auto-glass sculpture, from her Under the Glass Ceiling Exhibit (2012)
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a-state-of-bliss · 1 month
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'Broken Body' Glass Corset by Sue Tilley
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panicinthestudio · 1 year
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How did Lucian Freud present queer and marginalised bodies?, November 4, 2022
Art historian Gregory Salter considers Freud’s paintings of queer and marginalised bodies in the age of Section 28, the early years of HIV/AIDS, and preoccupations about class and gender. 
As part of our ‘New Perspectives on Freud’ series, Salter examines Freud’s paintings of gay men, the queer performer Leigh Bowery, and Sue Tilley – the subject of Freud’s famous ‘Benefits Supervisor’ series – from the 1980s and 90s.
Some of these works are on display in 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition – Lucian Freud: New Perspectives' 1 October 2022 - 22 January 2023
The National Gallery
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foamartist · 1 year
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Lucian Freud, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet
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RE-MIX RE-MASK; Private Life, My Jamaican Guy | ph. Peter Ashworth, Claire Pollock | mod. mak. Sue Venning | cr. dir. Bruno Tilley | dsg. Island Art (1986)
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archiveofcanvas · 2 years
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Sue Tilley, model for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
Lucian was the most hilarious man I'd ever met. I met him briefly at a club with [mutual friend] Leigh Bowery, and then he took me to lunch at the River Cafe. There were a group of us and he told a joke about how a whale wanks, complete with movements.
A few weeks later he asked if he could paint me. Leigh had already put the idea into his head, so it wasn't a surprise. The first picture was done at night. I'd go after work and he'd paint till 1 or 1.30 in the morning, and it was agony lying there on the floor. First Leigh was in the picture, then he went to Scotland and one of Lucian's whippets took his place.
The next three paintings were in daylight, which was better. I'd arrive, we'd have some breakfast and a chat in the kitchen – that was the bit I loved, the setting up. Lucian was a good cook: he used the best ingredients and did very little to them, gorgeous bread, gorgeous fish, cooked plainly. Then he'd say: "Sue, perhaps you could wash those dishes – I think you use that green stuff in the corner." We'd leave them to pile up. He had a cleaner who came three times a week.
He would paint with us both facing the canvas, so he'd look at me and then turn around to paint. I trained to be an art teacher, so it wasn't all new to me, but I'm very shoddy, very slapdash, and it taught me that it is real work: each painting took nine months, and he was seeking perfection right up to the moment he finished.
There was a big break between paintings because I went on holiday to India and got a tan, which he hated beyond belief: we had to wait till it was gone. Every picture he painted was to test himself, to do it in a different way.
Sometimes he was very chatty, sometimes he was very quiet – I always thought he should have been on the telly. He'd say terrible things about people, but he never saw that he was really rude. I was always a bit jealous: he did exactly as he pleased. He was funny, miserable, horrible, kind, mean, generous, every character trait mixed up in one person.
The last time I saw him was about two years ago at his birthday party, at Johnnie Shand Kydd's house. Someone told me he and I had fallen out, which I didn't know, so I was a bit nervous about seeing him. I was shaking when I went up to say hello, and had I offended him, but he said "Of course you haven't", and patted me on the head.
I was lucky to spend time with someone who cared so much, and who worked so hard. He wasn't cruel – he painted what he saw. What strikes me most is, I look at my fat ankles and my fat feet every morning and I think they look just like that painting. Even the skinny girls don't look good, do they? He painted out of love.
Sue Tilley, model for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
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mmayisa · 1 year
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Sue Tilley (2012)
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rozieramati · 1 year
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Sue Tilley: Illuminate, auto-glass sculpture, from her Under the Glass Ceiling Exhibit (2012)
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sabinerondissime · 6 months
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Sue Tilley in Lucian Freud’s Studio (1996) by photographer Bruce Bernard
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mindful-hempress · 7 months
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A glass once broken becomes a deadly weapon.
Sculpture by Sue Tilley
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zegalba · 1 year
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Sue Tilley: Illuminate, auto-glass sculpture, from her Under the Glass Ceiling Exhibit (2012)
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a-state-of-bliss · 2 years
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Sculpture by Sue Tilley
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erasure-picnic · 2 months
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In honour of both Black History Month and the UK’s LGBT+ History Month, let’s shine a spotlight on a key figure in Erasure’s brilliant stage shows - Les Child!
Child has had a prolific and storied career, working as a dancer, choreographer, and innovator in the arts. He danced with several groundbreaking troupes throughout the ‘70s and 80s, and also founded some of his own–including House of Child, the UK’s first voguing group. In the ‘80s, he branched out into choreography for music videos, which brought him into pop star circles, and at the dawn of the ‘90s, he set his sights on live tours.
According to his CV on HeadNod Agency, the first tour Child ever choreographed was Erasure’s Wild! Tour (1989-1990). Child was fond of Erasure’s music, and told Private Ear in 1992 that “it makes life a lot easier when it comes to choreographing a show if you enjoy the music”. He would go on to do the choreography for The Tank, the Swan, and the Balloon (1992), Cowboy (1996-1997), and The Erasure Show (2005). Indeed, Child seems to have choreographed more tours for Erasure than for any other band or artist. He also starred in Erasure’s short film “Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde” (2003), and forged an enduring friendship with Andy Bell.
Child’s work with Erasure is really special to me. His choreography is undeniably dazzling on its own, and the dancers deliver it with athleticism and aplomb. But I’d also argue that it adds to the music, making it even better. My favourite example is “Love to Hate You” from The Tank. In this performance--which Bell introduces as “the gayest of gay tangos���--two pairs grace the stage: one male-male, one female-female. By the end of the song, they’ve swapped partners multiple times. (Check out video 1 and video 2 to see this in action.) When I first saw this, I was charmed. It was unexpected, yet it seemed natural: a nod to the sexual fluidity that runs through Erasure’s music and art. I feel that Child truly got Erasure, knew what made them “them”, and made it sparkle.
SOURCES: Cover image and CV from Les Child’s page on HeadNod Agency (headnodagency.com). “Ear to the Ground”. Private Ear, Issue 11 (1992). Retrieved via a capture of the official Erasure website (Internet Archive). December 4, 2004. “Erasure - Dr Jekyll and Mistress Hyde (Directed By Vince Clarke)”. Original video from Erasure (Mute Records), 2003. Uploaded by Erasure Música y Amigos, retrieved via YouTube. “Life Drawing with Sue Tilley featuring Les Child as model and muse.” Uploaded by Sue Tilley, retrieved via YouTube, November 27, 2021. Staples, L. “From leather daddies to ‘Drag race’, dissecting the revolutionary history of the queer aesthetic.” British Vogue. July 24, 2021.
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justineportraits · 2 years
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Lucian Freusd     Sue Tilley or Sleeping by the Lion Carpet    1996
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almasmoons · 4 months
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Lucian Freud
Nacido en 1922, fue un pintor y dibujante británico especializado en arte figurativo y reconocido como uno de los mayores retratistas ingleses del siglo XX. Nació en Berlín, hijo del arquitecto judío Ernst L. Freud y nieto de Sigmund Freud. Su familia se mudó a Inglaterra en 1933, cuando él tenía 10 años, para escapar del ascenso del nazismo. Se convirtió en ciudadano británico naturalizado en 1939.
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Reflección (Autorretrato), Lucian Freud, 1985
Freud estudió brevemente en la escuela central de Londres. Luego, con mayor éxito, en la escuela de Pintura y Dibujo East Anglian
En 1943, el poeta y editor Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu encargó al joven artista que ilustrara un libro de poemas de Nicholas Moore titulado La torre de cristal. En el verano de 1946 viajó a París antes de continuar a Grecia durante varios meses para visitar a John Craxton. A principios de los años cincuenta visitaba con frecuencia Dublín, donde compartiría el estudio de Patrick Swift. Siguió siendo londinense por el resto de su vida.
Las primeras pinturas de este artista, en su mayoría muy pequeñas, suelen asociarse con el impresionismo alemán (una influencia que él tendía a negar) y el surrealismo al representar personas, plantas y animales en yuxtaposiciones inusuales.
A partir de la década de 1950, comenzó a centrarse en el retrato, a menudo desnudos, excluyendo casi por completo todo lo demás, y a mediados de la década desarrolló un estilo mucho más libre. usando pinceles grandes de pelo de cerdo, concentrándose en la textura y el color de la carne, y pintura mucho más espesa, incluido el empaste. Chica con un perro blanco, 1951-1952 es un ejemplo de obra de transición en este proceso.
Los sujetos de Freud eran a menudo las personas de su vida; amigos, familiares, compañeros pintores, amantes, niños. Sus temas eran autobiográficos, todo tenía que ver con la esperanza, la memoria, la sensualidad y la participación, en realidad. Sin embargo, los títulos eran en su mayoría anónimos y no siempre se revelaba la identidad del modelo.
Freud pintó a otros artistas, incluidos Frank Auerbach y Francis Bacon. Una serie de enormes retratos desnudos de mediados de la década de 1990 mostraban a Sue Tilley, o "Big Sue", algunos usando su título de trabajo de "Supervisora de Beneficios" en el título de la pintura, como en su retrato de 1995 Supervisora de Beneficios Durmiendo, que en mayo 2008 fue vendida por Christie's en Nueva York por 33,6 millones de dólares, estableciendo un precio de subasta récord mundial para un artista vivo.
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Bella, 1981
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Autorretrato, 1985
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