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Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers' career, from 'Locality Fails' to 'Metafisica Australe' and 'Journey to Nowhere', and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, 'The Sources', on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays express an aesthetic credo which has larger implications for both literature and art created out of the experience of migration. His self-coined concepts like 'the idea of incommensurability' and 'reversible destiny', his ideas about appropriation and the importance of reproduction in Australian culture, the encyclopaedic range of his work, and his orientation and re-orientation towards Aboriginal art, articulate an Australian aesthetic which constantly seeks connectedness between the local and the international, and a broader understanding of the complexities of provincialism. What he calls 'the revolt of the margins' is evident in the provocative nature of his writing too, in its wit and irony and intelligence.

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Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950 of Latvian parents. Since 1981 he has used his signature canvas boards to explore themes relevant to contemporary culture, from the centre/periphery debates of the 1980s to the effects of migration, displacement and diaspora. Since moving to Cooma in 1996, his paintings have been concerned with place, locality and evocations of landscape. His art juxtaposes images and texts in a convergence of ideas and associations drawn from history, literature, philosophy, poetry and the artist's own background. In 2018 the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga hosted a major retrospective of Tillers' work titled Journey to Nowhere. He is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

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