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Sally Taylor
Degree: MA Studio Practice
University: Lancaster University
Graduation Year: 1999
Taylor’s visually arresting and idiosyncratic body of work investigates the possibility of personal expression in a language that is public. Often using found sheets of paper; Taylor works from the suggestion of existing marks and shapes. There is something extremely raw about the work, in its final visual form, and its attempt to rise above the fixed and the coercive.
“The paintings and drawings affirm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically my own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance.
While issues, thoughts and feelings, which often evoke memory, personal history, fears and anxieties, are central concerns, it is their exploration through the specific languages of painting and drawing that informs the meaning. In this body of work, the focus is on recording and mapping social interaction through mark-making engaging with these humanistic themes, as intimate / public dialogues are played out on the paper or canvas in an attempt to challenge the validity of language in articulating these aspects of human experience.
The emotional power of the colour red, is entrenched in the content of the work, and is not used as an illustrative or descriptive device. Using more ‘democratic’ media – felt tips, crayons, biros, marker pens – I investigate issues surrounding dialect and its associations. Primitive and ‘outsider art’ have become significant influences. I aim to create work that embraces gesture and impulse in an attempt to achieve images that are raw, painterly and representative of a nervous energy. The intention is to avoid pre-meditation and ideology that could jeopardize the creative process with the ‘heads’ and ‘mouths’ used without regard to their potential connotations.
The values of selfhood and authenticity are central to the work, and the intimate relationship between artist and artwork is celebrated in a process that values that dialogical connection, and the revisiting of artworks and engaging with them over time. A desire for this considered relationship extends to the viewer also, in that while the work displays conspicuous references the human presence, viewers are encouraged to test their own physicality against the work.”
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010, Marks and Mouths, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
2010, Mouths with Triangle, Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery, Yorkshire
2009, aaa, The Bowery, Leeds
2009, Raising Voices, South Bank Arts Centre, BCA Gallery, Bedford
2009, Sally Taylor, Arc, Aspex, Portsmouth
2009, What (Not) To Say, Portsmouth Grammar School & Portsmouth Cathedral (to coincide with Residency at Portsmouth Grammar School)
2009, Say, Talk, Tell, Machado Gallery, Warwickshire
2008, Draw Breath, gASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Southsea
2007, Duologue, Michael West Gallery, Isle of Wight
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010, You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, North by Northwestern Festival, Wigan
2010, Twelve Constellations, Vulpes Vulpes Gallery, London UK
2009, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London & Nationwide
2009, Personally Political: Drawing, Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2009, Group Show, Gallery Fifty-three, London
2005, Sketch 2005, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London
2000, Breathe, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton