SIMON TAYLOR

Simon Taylor graduated in 1994 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, and has been developing a unique style of painting. Using various media including photography and painting, his work is based around ideas of perception, with genuine responses to modern life including subjects such as televisualisation, film theory, popular and mass culture and identity.

Simon won the prestigious Sefton Open Art Prize in 2006, and his work has been purchased by many private collectors, public collectors and galleries. His original paintings and images have also been used for television productions and a variety of publications worldwide.

Simon’s latest ‘film panorama’ works portray figures and scenes from films which are edited so that characters interact with others from previous or future stills from the same movie. Having digitally manipulated the photographs and film stills to create the images he requires, he then paints the images independently using acrylic or oil paint on canvas or aluminium.

The manipulation of film time and re-appropriation of the scene creates an environment never directed, edited or filmed, offering a second view and narrative directed and painted by the artist. The artist thus becomes the director, editing the film image and creating narratives that exist only on the painted surface.

Simon Taylor’s work has been widely shown at solo and group shows in the north of England, and in a number of public galleries. We are delighted to be bringing his work to London for the first time.