Susan Taylor | Artist
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  • Painting
    • a-pair, 2012
    • concat, 2013
    • behind their backs, 2013
    • behind her back, blank evolutionary stare, 2014
    • medusa re-imagined, 2014
    • lime-light, 2014
    • conglomerate, 2012
    • blue dog, pink muzzle, 2014
    • A-house, 2014
    • red, 2013
  • Other Works
    • THE LAWS OF MATHEMATICS, 2011
    • OK TO PRE TEND, 2011
    • desert mirage, 2013
    • you now here with me, 2011
    • From A Wizard, 2012
    • camera, 2012
    • landing bird, 2012
    • innuendo, 2003
  • Writing
    • Art: a being confounding the rational.
    • More and More
    • My intention in painting
    • The experiencing body
    • The place of art
    • To reach: for.
    • We all perform
    • Why aspire
    • I do not wish
  • About
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Artist

My art trainings were at Amersham College of Further Education and Art (Foundation), The University of Reading (BA Hon), The Royal College of Art (MA).

My work has included live performance, installations, photography, video, sound and text works, collage, drawings and paintings.

From 1999 to 2011 I was a Postgraduate Lecturer working on the MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London

Short CV

QUALIFICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENT

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2001
MA Fine Art, Royal College, London, 1985
BA Fine Art, University of Reading, 1982
Bucks Diploma of Art, Amersham College of Further Education and Art, 1978

EMPLOYMENT

Artist, current

Postgraduate Lecturer, Fine Art (Studio Practice): Taught MFA and PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Art, 1999-2011

Senior Lecturer Fine Art (Studio Practice): Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD, University of Leeds, Department of Fine Art, 1992-2000

Visiting lecture-ships in Fine Art, Photography, Media Studies: nationally and internationally (Hungary, Canada), 1985-2004

Sessional Lecturer Fine Art (Fine Art Practice), Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University of Reading, Department of Fine Art, 1985-1991

SELECTED OUTPUTS FOR FINE ART STUDIO PRACTICE

2015
  • Solo Painting Show, Transfers Between Shapes, with Interference, London Review of Books
2014           
  • 3 month research trip, Brisbane, Australia (aboriginal painting practice)
  • Solo Painting Show, Soft Material in Skull, plus Electrical Impulses, First Sight Gallery, Hastings, East Sussex
2013           
  • Painting exhibited, group exhibition, Pneu, Electro Studios Project Space, Hastings, East Sussex
  • Self-publication, pamphlet, Performance Relics

2012    
  • The X in Te t, Me and My Friends No 15, published by friendsfanzine. Archived in Poetry Library, Southbank, London
  • Self-publication, children’s story, A Wizard, A Dog, An Army of Ants.

2011        
  • Artist’s books, sound works on CD and video, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
  • Work published in Gandt: http://gandtpresents.com/index1html 24 images
  • Live reading of poem, Down The Track A Rolling Stone Cannot For The Life Of Her Gather Any Moss (in Humbugs’ Poppycocks), Shoot the Poets, Electric Palace, Hastings.

2010           
  • Poems, collage/drawing published in slash/seconds, Issue 12, ISSN 1751-4134: www.slashseconds.com

2009          
  • 3 performance works in ‘ Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder’ The Apartment, London.

2008           
  • Group exhibition: 3 collage/paintings, Transitions Gallery, London

2006           
  • Two-person exhibition, ‘This Is Not A Collaboration’. Video, audio and framed drawings, collages, photographs, text work. Unit 2 Gallery, London

2005           
  • Self-publication, ‘Humbugs Poppycocks’, ISBN 0-9548728-0-0, Archived in Poetry Library, Southbank, London

2004           
  • Various sound-works broadcast, Resonance Radio, London and New York,
  • Retrospective exhibition, ‘Staged’: Installation of 18 photographic works, 1 video work, 3 text works, 6 drawings, with publication and included a live sound performance work and an artist lecture. Barcsay Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2003          
  • Solo exhibition of installed photographs including live performance, ‘Innuendo’, Tihany International Postgraduate Programme, Hungary

2001     
  • Group exhibition, Insider Trading: framed photograph, Mandeville Hotel. London

1998           
  • Solo exhibition: residency and sound installation, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
  • Solo performance: words, images, photography, South London Gallery
  • Home
  • Painting
    • a-pair, 2012
    • concat, 2013
    • behind their backs, 2013
    • behind her back, blank evolutionary stare, 2014
    • medusa re-imagined, 2014
    • lime-light, 2014
    • conglomerate, 2012
    • blue dog, pink muzzle, 2014
    • A-house, 2014
    • red, 2013
  • Other Works
    • THE LAWS OF MATHEMATICS, 2011
    • OK TO PRE TEND, 2011
    • desert mirage, 2013
    • you now here with me, 2011
    • From A Wizard, 2012
    • camera, 2012
    • landing bird, 2012
    • innuendo, 2003
  • Writing
    • Art: a being confounding the rational.
    • More and More
    • My intention in painting
    • The experiencing body
    • The place of art
    • To reach: for.
    • We all perform
    • Why aspire
    • I do not wish
  • About
  • Contact