German in the UK

For ten months from late 2008, Henry Tietzsch-Tyler was Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at the German Department of the University of Leeds, working with Professor Stuart Taberner to explore artistic reflections on memory and trauma. Two public events, one with opera singers and a pianist, brought academics, artists and members of the public together to discuss German history, trauma, migration, memory and art.

Henry Tietzsch-Tyler is an artist who works across the borders of painting, performance and installation. Rooted in his experience of growing up in an Anglo-German family in England and Wales during the 1950s and 1960s, his work is, at least in part, oriented towards accounts of his German family’s history as it was passed down to him by his mother.