Simon Taylor (artist), Date of Birth

    

Simon Taylor (artist)

English artist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1969

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Simon Taylor (artist)

  • Simon Taylor is an artist / painter.
  • Born in Gloucester, England on the 22 June 1969.
  • Living in Lydney in the Forest of Dean then moving to Manchester and graduating in 1994 with degree in Fine Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally completing a number of solo exhibitions in public galleries and has exhibited in exhibitions in Manchester, London, Dublin, Milan, Brussels and Utrecht. His works have been used for television productions and a variety of publications worldwide.
  • His paintings are collected internationally and he has works in public collections after winning the prestigious Sefton Open art prize in 2006. His painting process is complex: working from photographs taken from magazines, life and film stills.
  • Each image is dis-assembled and de-constructed from the original source and context then re-assembled.
  • The images are re-edited to create new narratives, which exist only on the painted surface of his works.
  • Characters are given the freedom to interact with themselves and/or different backdrops, manipulating the time and space that they originally inhabited. The finished works are painted using acrylic paint onto various surfaces including canvas, wood panels and aluminum. "He takes a variety of subjects and treats them in different styles.
  • It can be documentary, as his 'Scenes of Crime' and 'Disposables' series, impressionistic in 'Travel Pictures' or surreal in 'Self-Portrait as a Consumer'.
  • "So Do We Really Know What We Are Seeing", The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 5 June 1998, page 15".

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