Tilt Collective Launches
Musicians Making Art Across Multiple Mediums
Musicians Making Art Across Multiple Mediums
Featuring the work of Judy Cade, Kevin Hearn, Hugh Marsh, Kurt Swinghammer, and Martin Tielli
(November 1, 2024 – Toronto, ON) — Tilt Collective, an innovative new platform for musician-artists, is proud to announce its official launch. Founded by singer-songwriter and photographer Judy Cade and violinist, composer and visual artist Hugh Marsh, Tilt Collective is an evolving online space that highlights the intersection of music and visual art, where musicians transform their passion for creativity into stunning works of visual art.
At its core, Tilt Collective features an initial group of accomplished musician-artists, including Judy Cade, Hugh Marsh, Kurt Swinghammer, Martin Tielli, and Kevin Hearn. Each artist curates their own gallery, showcasing limited-edition prints of their artwork.
The tagline, “Musicians Making Art” encapsulates the heart of Tilt Collective: musicians who explore and create visual art, united by their interconnected experiences in music and beyond. These artists have shared stages, studios, and creative spaces with one another and countless other collaborators from around the world, creating a rich tapestry of artistic interactions that go beyond the confines of traditional media.
In addition to the core members, Tilt Collective is committed to welcoming guest artists for limited engagements. The first featured guest artist is Turkish-Canadian multimedia creator Mercan Dede, a multidisciplinary artist who has been celebrated globally for his creative work over the last 30 years, both in visual art and music. The core group will expand over time with regular guest artist contributions, enriching the collective’s roster.
Tilt Collective offers affordable, high-quality art prints on archival paper, providing fans and collectors with limited-edition pieces from their favorite musician-artists. By making exclusive, limited-run art accessible, Tilt Collective bridges the gap between art and music fans.
For more information on Tilt Collective and to explore the current gallery of works, visit www.tiltcollective.ca and follow @tilt_collective on Instagram.
About Tilt Collective:
Tilt Collective is an online platform founded by Judy Cade that brings together musicians who create visual art. Featuring artists such as Hugh Marsh, Martin Tielli, Kurt Swinghammer, Kevin Hearn, and Mercan Dede, the collective celebrates the unique artistry that emerges when musicians turn their creative energy toward visual media. Through curated galleries and limited-edition prints, Tilt Collective aims to provide affordable art from established and emerging voices in the global music and art scenes.
Website: www.tiltcollective.ca
Tilt Collective is an online platform founded by Judy Cade that brings together musicians who create visual art. Featuring artists such as Hugh Marsh, Martin Tielli, Kurt Swinghammer, Kevin Hearn, and Mercan Dede, the collective celebrates the unique artistry that emerges when musicians turn their creative energy toward visual media. Through curated galleries and limited-edition prints, Tilt Collective aims to provide affordable art from established and emerging voices in the global music and art scenes.
Website: www.tiltcollective.ca
About Judy Cade:
Judy Cade has a diverse career in the Arts. In the field of music, she has toured internationally and recorded with numerous artists, most notably with the iconic Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn. She appears as a vocalist on numerous Cockburn albums - Stealing Fire, World of Wonders, Waiting for a Miracle, Rumours of Glory & Big Circumstance, among others. Judy is a songwriter, composer and lyricist. She writes solo and in collaboration with fellow musicians. One such cowrite, “Find My Way Home”, written with renowned violinist Hugh Marsh and sung by Mary Margaret O’Hara appears on his recording Songs for My Mother and Father. Cade’s artistic expression is often explored through the written word. Through lyrics, prose, poetry, scripts and screenplays.
In the world of Film, Cade has worked in various capacities. She cowrote the screenplay for the Valerie Buhagiar film The Passion of Rita Camilleri. She has enjoyed a longstanding professional relationship with Canadian Filmmaker and Producer, Camelia Frieberg (Atom Egoyan, Daniel MacIvor) as her Editor on Crossing the River, assistant to the producer on her most recent documentary Modified and in script development for her film A Stone’s Throw, which also features her original song in the soundtrack. Cade is highly passionate about words, sound, the unique ways of seeing and listening. She strives to bring an understanding to how these elements intersect and influence each other.
Judy’s Headshot Here
“Lichen” by Judy Cade | Link to artist page HERE
About Hugh Marsh:
Violinist, composer and visual artist Hugh Marsh has been a musical conversationalist with Bruce Cockburn, Jon Hassell, Peter Murphy, Ursula Rucker, The Rheostatics, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, Loreena McKennitt, Robert Palmer, Don Byron, Mercan Dede, Kevin Hearn, Iggy Pop, Michael Brecker and Nick Buzz among many others. His unique musical voice can be heard as electric violin soloist on numerous movie scores including Armageddon, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The DaVinci Code, Away From Her, Veronica Guerin, Spy Game, The Equalizer, Gone Baby Gone, Shrek 2, Man on Fire, and The Martian. Hugh’s latest recording is the Western Vinyl 2019 release entitled Violinvocations.
Hugh’s Headshot Here
“A bruised fall” by Hugh Marsh | Link to artist page HERE
About Martin Tielli
Best known as a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the Rheostatics, the band released 12 studio and 4 live albums, two of which – Melville and Whale Music – have been cited in numerous critical and listener polls as among the best Canadian albums ever recorded. Martin has also released 4 solo albums, and 2 with the band Nick Buzz (Tielli, Hugh Marsh, Jonathan Goldsmith, Rob Piltch). He also collaborates with Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier of Mercury Films, having written music for the documentaries Act of God, Payback, and Watermark.
Martin began his art career as a scientific illustrator for the Royal Ontario Museum’s Department of Paleontology at the age of 18. He has created the cover art for over 40 albums and was nominated for a Best Artwork JUNO Award for the Rheostatics’ The Story of Harmelodia. He has also done illustrations for the Etobicoke Guardian, Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, West End Phoenix, and several books. In addition to a number of solo shows, Martin’s paintings have been included in the Collector’s Series – Happy Mediums (guest curated by Kevin Hearn) at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2010), the McMichael Gallery’s Autumn Art Sale, (2014), Museum London’s Realisms: Canadian Art, 1850 to the Present (2020), and True North Gallery – The Music Gallery of Fine Art (2016-2022). His recent work featuring landscapes, birds and plants reflect his lifelong interest as a naturalist.
Martin’s Headshot Here
“Toronto - Horseshoe” by Martin Tielli | Link to artist page HERE
About Kurt Swinghammer:
Toronto based multi-discipline artist Kurt Swinghammer has released a dozen albums of original music, appears as a session guitarist on over 100 CDs, co-written an album with Ron Sexsmith, was the first artist in residence at The National Music Centre in Calgary, composed extensively for film and TV including the horror feature Ginger Snaps 2, and won the NOW Magazine Reader’s Choice Local Guitarist of the Year Award. His visual work is in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, and his credits include animated videos for Buffy Saint-Marie and Bruce Cockburn, set design for Joni Mitchell’s award winning live broadcast on MuchMusic, art directing award winning videos for Maestro Fresh Wes, wardrobe design for The Shuffle Demons, and CD covers for The Art of Time Ensemble, African Guitar Summit, Glass Orchestra and Stuart McLean.
Kurt’s Headshot Here
“I’m Lovin’ It” by Kurt Swinghammer | Link to artist page HERE
About Kevin Hearn:
A gifted composer, in-demand collaborator, and ever-active musical force with zero interest in creative stagnancy, Hearn cut his teeth collaborating with the likes of Look People, Corky and the Juice Pigs, and revered art-rock outfit Rheostatics before formally joining Barenaked Ladies in 1995. As the group’s profile swelled in the ensuing years, he explored new sonic ground with a series of innovative and imaginative solo albums. One of the most respected and sought-after Toronto musicians of the past 30 years, Hearn’s projects always attract brilliant collaborators including Violent Femmes, Gord Downie, Laurie Anderson, Garth Hudson, Ron Sexsmith, Dan Hill, Michael Ray of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Carole Pope, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Alan Doyle, The Persuasions, Violent Femmes, Colin Hay and drummer Rob Kloet (the Nits).
One of his most rewarding creative and personal relationships of all was with the legendary Lou Reed, for whom Hearn acted as musical director and keyboardist from 2007 until his passing in 2013. Hearn was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2018 as part of Barenaked Ladies. He released his ninth album, the captivating and compelling Calm and Cents, which was nominated for Instrumental Album of the Year at the 2020 JUNO Awards. Hearn also re-released his entire solo catalogue, which dates back to 1997’s debut Mothball Mint, and included a first time digital release of the sold-out 2019 Record Store Day Canada project Kevin Hearn & Friends Present: The Superhero Suite, nominated by the JUNO Awards for Album Artwork of the Year. Hearn’s most recent album with Hugh Marsh titled Dreaming Of The 80s, is a collection of the decade’s classics hits and deep cuts reimagined in Marsh and Hearn’s uniquely atmospheric and ethereal sonic environment.
“Lettuce Rejoice” by Kevin Hearn | Link to artist page HERE
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