Imants Tillers: Born 1950, Sydney, New South Wales. Lives and works Cooma, New South Wales. He is an artist, writer and curator. 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. Most recently, his paintings have been concerned with place, locality and evocations of the landscape.

Tillers has exhibited widely since the late 1960s, and has represented Australia at important international exhibitions, such as the São Paulo Biennial (1975), Documenta 7 (1982) and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). Major solo surveys of his work include The Long Poem, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth ...