Tiggy Ticehurst

About

Tiggy Ticehurst is a self taught British Artist born in London, England in 1965. 

In 2018 Tiggy moved back to Europe with his family and is currently working in Paris France.

After working in real estate in the 80’s and 90’s Tiggy emigrated to America in 2000 where he took up painting professionally, sharing studio space with friend Bill Barrell, a renowned American figurative artist in Jersey City before moving to Manhattan in 2001.


Tiggy's works, painted in acrylic, using a "whimsical fresh playful style" depicting in his eyes, modern day life in and around the city.

Full of color, his iconic NYC street scenes, humorous profession depictions and more recently a fun dig on the contemporary Art movement and the fashion world.

"For me, painting is one of the only internal learning processes for the brain that has little to do with right from wrong and contains no barriers. Painting is a process that opens up inner thoughts and stimulates the senses, cleansing and reorganizing the mind and fine-tuning discrimination. My work is a collection of subjects culled from conscious and sub-conscious memories expressed through shapes, composition and color. Many of which focus on childhood fears, abandonment, family values and intense emotions. My objective is the study of my inner-self, which is achieved through the deep introspection experienced while painting."


Tiggy fell in love and started painting New York some 15 years ago. He arrived there at the turn of the new century and has been capturing the city's energy and vibrancy with maestro since then. 

Positioning himself in the streets Tiggy has managed to reflect in his works the essence of New York, namely, the "busyness, the hustle and bustle, the people, the children with their mothers, the taxis, the cars". That and the omnipresent art scene which he has skillfully transposed onto his canvases with his brush and paints. This has earned him the Title of "Urban Primitive" by a famous NY Art Collector.

"It is quite a crazy place" says the London born artist who for many years stationed himself by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

The Met is where Tiggy found the inspiration for his latest series, which focuses on contemporary artists, the global art scene, and the lack of understanding it generates amongst a great many visitors of the museum.

"Seeing people coming out saying WTF was that? WTF did I just see?" is how the idea to create canvases that "take the piss and nicely attack" the contemporary art establishment came to Tiggy. 

Tiggy does not want to be labelled a political artist, he prefers to think of himself as an artist who makes people laugh. "Most people will stop and look and give me the feeling of joy and fun, they'll like it, they will pass smiling, enjoying what they just saw". 

And we can only agree with him, we no longer count the amount of people passing by our boutique and bursting out laughing at seeing Tiggy's work.


ํ‹ฐ๊ธฐ ํƒ€์ด์Šคํ—ˆ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” 1965๋…„ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜, ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์˜๊ตญ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์ด๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๋…ํ•™ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. 2018๋…„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

80๋…„๋Œ€์™€ 90๋…„๋Œ€์— ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ผํ•œ ํ›„, ๊ทธ๋Š” 2000๋…„์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ ์‹œํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ƒ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋นŒ ๋ฐ”๋ ๊ณผ ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ 2001๋…„์— ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์•„ํฌ๋ฆด๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ค์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋น„์นœ ๋„์‹œ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์  ์‚ถ์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•œ "๊ธฐ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ"๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„์ด์ฝ”๋‹‰ํ•œ ๋‰ด์š• ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์žฅ๋ฉด, ์œ ๋จธ๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ•œ ์ง์—… ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํŒจ์…˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ’์žํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค.


"๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์˜ณ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์–ด๋–ค ํ•œ๊ณ„๋„ ์—†์ด ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚ด์ ์ธ ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ • ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ์ž๊ทนํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ •ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ์ •๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ„๋ณ„๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ์ž‘์—…์€ ์˜์‹์  ๋ฐ ๋ฌด์˜์‹์  ๊ธฐ์–ต์—์„œ ์ฐพ์€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์ƒํ™” ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ƒ‰์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ์ค‘ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ๋‘๋ ค์›€, ์œ ๊ธฐ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ฐ€์น˜, ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๋‚ด๋ฉด ํƒ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‚ด๋ฉด์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค."


์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” 15๋…„ ์ „ ๋‰ด์š•์— ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ ์ฒœ๋…„์˜ ์ „ํ™˜๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์„ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค์— ๋‹ด์•„์™”๋‹ค.

๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์—์„œ ํ‹ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ, ์ฆ‰ "๋ถ„์ฃผํ•จ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ์•„์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์—„๋งˆ๋“ค, ํƒ์‹œ, ์ฐจ๋“ค"์„ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ“๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋Šฅ์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค์— ์˜ฎ๊ธด ์ „์ง€์ ์ธ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์žฅ๋ฉด๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋‰ด์š• ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ "๋„์‹œ ์›์‹œ์ธ"์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํƒ€์ดํ‹€์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ์นœ ๊ณณ์ด์—์š”." ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœํด๋ฆฌํƒ„ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์˜†์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €๋˜ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ํƒœ์ƒ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœํด๋ฆฌํƒ„ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ตœ์‹  ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ์— ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ค€ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ, ์ด ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์ฃผ๋œ ์ฃผ์ œ์ด๋‹ค.


"์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ '๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋ญ์˜€์ง€? ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ๋ณธ ๊ฑฐ์ง€?' ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ" ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ณ„๋ฅผ "๋น„๊ผฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ"ํ•˜๋Š” ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ •์น˜์  ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์›ƒ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ์„œ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์จ๊ณผ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋Š๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค."


์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ง์— ๋™์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ํ„ฐ๋œจ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ.

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