Taylor Bull
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Taylor Bull, Agosh, 2023£ 200.00 -
Taylor Bull, Adroit, 2023£ 200.00
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Taylor Bull, Marmont, 2023£ 200.00
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Taylor Bull, Memmy, 2023£ 200.00
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Taylor Bull, Sylvia’s Palm Tree, 2023£ 400.00
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Taylor Bull, Cactus fractus cumulus anus, 2022£ 400.00
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Taylor Bull, Coconuts For Not Much Money At All, 2022£ 2,000.00
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Taylor Bull, Friday Fruit , 2022£ 180.00
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Taylor Bull, Georgia O’Keefe Nude, 2022£ 3,300.00
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Taylor Bull, Marciaso Mountain i, 2022£ 180.00
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Taylor Bull, Morning, 2021£ 2,500.00
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Taylor Bull, To Me, To You, 2021£ 2,200.00
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Taylor Bull, Dover Street Market, NY, 2020£ 3,000.00
I have created art around the world, practising batik and dyeing techniques in Sri Lanka, before studying the art of Mughal painting and portrait drawing in India.
I am interested in the formal nuances of the body and its vast capacity for expression. When bodies spill out of their borders they become unsettlingly abject. Notions of abjection and the grotesque are inseparable, and painting into these subjects obliges the viewer to confront the source of their own disquiet. Neither fully self nor other, the abject characters of her paintings undo the fiction of individual subjective integrity.
Setting unfamiliar figures against familiar surroundings renders them in the world, but not of the world. These paintings, to borrow AC Bradley’s enduring words, are “not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world, but worlds in themselves”. Complex entanglements between figure and landscape in my work create an ecosystem of non-hierarchical associations. Figure and landscape are non-anthropocentric, and figures emerge as acutely emotional beings with awareness of their own humanity. In extravagant colour and soft androgynous form I am drawn to recalling such tableaus in which figures from worldly terrains are joined by the preternatural.
Born 1993 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2021 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 BA Art and Design, Arts University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
2016 Year Abroad, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2013 Foundation Year, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 GOOD ENOUGH, House of St Barnabas, London, UK
It’ll Be Alright, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK
2022 Money Shot, Central Saint Martins Applied Imagination Festival of Ideas, London, UK
Money Shot, Metropolis Gallery, Brighton, UK
Berlin Affordable Art Market, Monopol Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Permanent Temporary, The Bottle Factory, London, UK
2021 Interior/Exterior, Sala Salon, London, UK
RCA Degree Show, Cromwell Place, London, UK
Objects (lost), Treasure (found), Underground Flower Offspace, London, UK
2020 SNAPSHOTS, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
Work In Progress, Sackler Building, London, UK
2019 CREATIVE RIOTS!, Mumbai Art Fair - Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
2017 KNOT ART, pop-up exhibition, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, UK
20th INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ARTIST BOOK FAIR 2017, Tetley, UK
HUG LIFE 7, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
GETS BETTER, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
SOME THINGS ONLY CHANGE, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, UK
BISH, BASH, BOSH, We The North, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
FLING, GET FLUNG, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
2016 ME! ME! ME!, Ded Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia
CLUSTERFUK, Ded Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia
ARE YOU SURE, Ded Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia
CONCRETE FLOORS, SCA Gallery, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 New York Academy of Art Summer Residency
Scholarship Awardee, NYAA Summer Residency
2022 Villa Lena Artist in Residence
PUBLICATIONS
2022 It’ll Be Alright, The Alchemy Experiment Publication
Courier Magazine, Issue 48
2021 Where’s The Frame? IN CONVERSATION WITH: TAYLOR BULL
