Fruit For The Journey

A band formed by my partner –  song writer, sound designer, mixer and recordist: aka Ronnie Jones. I created the logo and EP cover design shown here. There are three songs on the EP, which is available to buy and to listen to through www.fruitforthejourney.com We made the video for...

Olympic Sculpture

Tilby sculpture in progress

Commissioned by Bellway Homes, Developers at Twelve Trees Crescent, London E3, on the bankside of the Thames Tributary, 2005 Cold-cast bronze. A series of interlocking rings resembling a reeling figure on a rock of modern and future fossils. The twenty-eight-piece mold was made by Michael Whitely's Artisan team.

Pret a Porter: Pret a Manger

Anne tilby potato pret a manger/porter

Back in the late seventies,  I made a collection of edible fashion, provoked by the diet obssession and feminist movements featuring my  Hostess-Toast-Dress and Bangers'n'Mash wig Took a cake icing course and bread-baking lessons with the Master Baker who helped me bake the perfect meringue dress  for the Russell Harty Show...

Eco:centrics from Trashfactory

tilby madonna chest

Trash Factory CIC  designed and devised by Tilby to encourage waste awareness, creative recycling and repair, using traditional crafts and alternative materials. Tilby ran workshops for all ages and abilities  at the Science Museum, London,  the Turner Gallery, Margate,  in schools,  art centres and universities from 1995 - 2018. and...

Mozart in Turkey

Anne tilby mozart oliver tobias

Abduction from the Harem:  Mozart in Turkey was a film of the opera  with international cast and crew, A  CHANNEL 4 co-production with the Turkish Ministry of Culture. Directed by Elijah Moshinsky 1999 The opera was performed in the Topkapi Palace and filmed on location around Istanbul. We used ancient...

Greek Gods wear sandals…

anne tilby _killer heel_ Tortured Soles photo by Fred Tilby-Jones

Exhibition opportunities -  TORTURED SOLES  will be exhibited in SOHO London ( 2012, 2013) WHITECHAPEL ( July 2013)   Scotland 2013, Ireland 2018 Available as 50 humorous digital images and text, with soundtrack. plus the actual unwearable shoes themselves.  SHOES TO DIE FOR... TORTURED SOLES addresses gender, modern feminist and sustainability....

WHY TRASH ?

Using junk and rubbish to create something  makes me happy. Buckminster Fuller said  "There's no such thing as pollution". If nature re-uses everything  – so can we. We produce too much of everything. Here's a golden shopping trolley that I customised for Julian Clary in the nineties. PEOPLE DONT DIE...

Blanche Marvin

When I made the Edible Fashion Performances in the late 1970s, a great theatre critic and thesp, helped me to launch my projects - Blanche Marvin. Now 95 years old,  she was on Desert Island Discs in November 2012 telling her amazing life story.  Inexhaustable, still wearing her red cloak,...