Approved: 08.08.2007

Sally Taylor

Artist, Community worker, Gallery educator, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 08.08.2007

My 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 language

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    Artist Statement

    My 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 language of drawing that informs the meaning. Through mark-making, I record and map social interaction as intimate / public dialogues are played out on the paper or canvas in an attempt to challenge the validity of language in articulating aspects of human experience.

    CV & Education

    Selected Solo exhibitions

    2023        Head Blocker, ArtShed, Glaisdale 

    2018        Some Spaces Left, Platform A, Middlesbrough

    2016        That Head That Head, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire

    2011        Confused Heads, Duckett and Jeffreys, Sledmere, North Yorkshire

    2011        All Say The Same, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire

    2010        Sally Taylor, Bar Lane Studios, York

    2010         Mouths and Marks, PS2, MIMA,  Middlesbrough

     

    Selected Group exhibition

    2023           ‘X’ Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle

    2023            Champs Noir, Terrace Gallery, London 

    2022             Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, London (and UK tour)

    2022             Malton Sculpture Trail, Malton, North Yorkshire

    2022              Connections, Old Parcel’s Office Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    2022               Ten Years, Platform A, Middlesbrough, Teesside

    2021                SelfScapes, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire

    2021                 Newsprint, Three Works, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    2020                 The Far Away Nearby, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire

    2020                 Art Happens Here, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    2020                  London Art Fair 2020, Rabley Contemporary, London

    2019                  Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019, London (and UK tour)

    2019                   Fully Awake, Freelands Foundation, London

    2019                   Art Happens Here, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire

    2019                    London Art Fair 2019, Rabley Contemporary, London & Original Print Fair, Royal Academy London

    2018                     SelfScapes 1, Exhibition and Symposium, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire

    2017                     Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Space. London (and UK tour)

    2017                     State of Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, Artworks, Halifax 

    2017                      Ink Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Miami, USA

    2017                       Drawing Matters, York St John University, York

    2016                       The Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    2015                       To Draw is to be Human, South Square Gallery, Bradford; Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    2015                       Beyond Perception, Exhibition and symposium, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

    2015                       The Sketchbook Today, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton

    2014                       Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, Jerwood Space, London (and UK tour): Prize-winner ‘SPECIAL COMMENDATION’