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Keith Tyson (Keith Thomas Bower) was born on 23 August, 1969 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, is an English artist (born 1969). Discover Keith Tyson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Keith Thomas Bower
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Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August, 1969
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Ulverston, Lancashire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Keith Tyson Net Worth

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1969

Keith Tyson (born Keith Thomas Bower, 23 August 1969) is an English artist.

1989

In 1989, he began an art foundation course at the Carlisle College of Art, and the following year he moved south to take up a place on experimental Alternative Practice degree at The Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton (1990–93).

1990

During the 1990s, Tyson's practice was dominated by the Artmachine, through which Tyson explored his ongoing interest in randomness, causality, and the question of how things come into being.

The Artmachine was a method Tyson developed which used a combination of computer programmes, flow charts and books in order to generate chance combinations of words and ideas, which were then realised in practice as artworks in a wide range of media.

1999

The results of the Artmachine became the basis of Tyson's earliest exhibited artworks; The Artmachine Iterations, as these works became known, established Tyson's reputation in the UK and internationally as an original artist and thinker, and by 1999 he had mounted solo exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and Zürich, as well as contributed to group shows throughout Europe, North America and Australia.

From 1999, Tyson's interests practice turned from the Artmachine towards an artistic approach which explored the same thematic terrain, but this time directly by his own hand.

The first such body of work was entitled Drawing and Thinking.

2001

Many of these works were installed in the international exhibition in the 2001 Venice Biennale

2002

In 2002, he was the winner of the Turner Prize.

Tyson works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing and installation.

Bower moved to Dalton-in-Furness when he was four, adopting his stepfather's surname Tyson.

He showed an interest in and talent for art at an early age, having been inspired by his "very creative and enthusiastic" primary school art teacher.

However he left school and took employment as a fitter and turner with VSEL (Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd., now BAE Systems) in Barrow-in-Furness.

In 2002, Tyson mounted Supercollider at South London Gallery and then the Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland.

The name of the exhibition, derived from the popular name for the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, indicated the significance of scientific ways of seeing and thinking about the world to Tyson's art at this time.

In December 2002, Tyson was awarded the British visual arts award, the Turner Prize.

The other shortlisted artists that year were Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick and Catherine Yass.

The Turner Prize was notorious that year not so much for the controversial nature of the work of the shortlisted artists as in previous years, but because of the comments of then Culture Minister Kim Howells.

His comments that the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain consisted of "cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit" were greeted with both approval and criticism in the media.

2005

In 2005, The following year, Tyson first exhibited his most monumental and ambitious work to date, Large Field Array, in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, which then travelled to the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in the Netherlands and The Pace Gallery in New York.

2009

In 2009 Tyson's work was shown at the Hayward Gallery as part of the group exhibition "Walking in My Mind".

Only a fraction of the instructions issued from the Artmachine were realised as artworks (the Artmachine generated around 12,000 proposals which are still unmade ), but many of the playful and inventive mixed media works that were created include a twenty-four foot painting made from bathroom sealant, and a painting using toothpaste and music CDs.

Described by Walter Robinson as "nothing less than a complete Pop cosmology", Large Field Array comprises 300 modular units, most formed from into implied 2-foot cubes; the cubes are arranged into a grid occupying both the floor and walls of a gallery when installed.

Each highly crafted cubic sculpture represents a unique yet highly recognizable feature of the world, from popular culture to natural history.

Sculptures as diverse as a representation of American Donald Trump’s wedding cake, a chimney with a bird on top of it with a satellite dish, and a chair made of skeletons, were all constructed and arranged.

The installation invited the viewer/participant to negotiate his or her own path through a seemingly random assortment of images and ideas, echoing the mental processes which create free associations between disparate phenomena which so fascinate Tyson.

A mixture of paints, pigments and chemicals are allowed to interact in specific ways upon an acid primed aluminium panel.

The combined processes of gravity, chemical reaction, temperature, hydrophobia and evaporation simultaneously conspire to create surfaces reminiscent of a wide range of natural forms and landscapes.

In this respect, the paintings seem to be depict nature, but they are also created by nature as well.

Collectively these works on paper represent Tyson’s sketchbook or journal.

Each ‘Wall Drawing’ is made on a sheet of paper measuring 158 cm x 126 cm, the same dimensions as a small wall in Tyson's original studio where he used to draw-up notes.

Over the years these sheets have recorded his ideas, emotional tone and mood, visits people made to the studio, world events and even economic fluctuations.

They are often exhibited in large non-chronological grids to form solid walls of diverse images, and text.