Aaron Tilley is a still life photographer hailing
from Great Britain, famed for his pristine (and often humorous) still life
editorial commissions for companies such as Google and Ford. His work does veer
heavily to the commercial side, but it's clear that a strong conceptual /
metaphorical thread pervades; Tilley found his own way to make a living on his
commissions and maintain personal authorship.
Tilley's biographical information is as sparse
and manicured as his images. There is not much available online or in art
journals other than "works internationally" and "is
British." If his art is anything to go on, I suspect this is intentional
curation by Tilley rather than mere happenstance.
Much of his output is commission-based, but the
image below represents an example of a personal series.
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| Pneumatic Anatomy (2014) |
I find his work truly contemporary, if not in
subject matter than in craft: the impossible precision of his subjects,
surfaces, color balance, light, and shadow could only be achieved via skilled
digital post processing. Perhaps that's a banal observation, but occasionally
execution can go so far over the top of "expected" or
"normal" as to become an attraction unto itself.
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| Savory - Bread (for Kinfolk) |
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| Future Relic 1 |
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