Nobody

With text by Alice Oswald and 23 watercolours by William Tillyer, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibition of luminous watercolours. Created over three years and inspired by each other's promptings and shared ideas, Nobody is a watery world from which Tillyer and Oswald give expression to the shared belief that tension is the essence of form, or as Tillyer eloquently describes, 'Not competing, but traveling side by side; a shared path'.

Caught between The Odyssey and The Oresteia and not knowing either story's conclusion, the poet goes on speaking surrounded by water. Perhaps he is only an alias of Odysseus, one of his lost selves, unable to get home. This poem is his rhapsody, a circling shoal of sea voices that ends at The Odyssey's beginning.