'PASADENA'

In Pasadena, Tillian renders the Californian landscape not as a fixed location but as a shifting psychological and mythic terrain. Across two conjoined panels, abstracted fragments of foliage, architecture, and path-like forms suggest a city glimpsed through memory, dream, and transformation. Palm silhouettes, cloistered archways, and volcanic reds evoke both the natural abundance and colonial residues of the Pasadena region—once home to the Tongva people.

Pasadena invites viewers to traverse not only a place, but a passage—between wilderness and civilisation, past and present, seen and intuited.

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Tillian lives and works in Bundanoon, a highland village bordering the vast gorges of the Morton National Park. He studied painting, film and photography at Alexander Mackie Art School, Sydney and more recently completed a Master of Creative Arts at Wollongong University. He has had five solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows. Influenced by Indian ritual art, Aboriginal desert painting and Western art traditions, Tillian’s landscape paintings are visual narratives tracing passages and patterns in cyclic time and space. Works are constructed on site during lengthy sessions of immersion in the act of painting and the "happening of place".