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.
The values of selfhood and authenticity are central to my work, and the intimate relationship between artist and artwork is celebrated in a process that values that dialogical connection, and the revisiting of artworks and engaging with them over time. A desire for this considered relationship extends to the viewer also, in that while there are conspicuous references to the human presence, viewers are encouraged to test their own physicality against the work.
Solo exhibitions
- 2013 Confused Heads, Duckett and Jeffreys, Sledmere, North Yorkshire
- 2011 Sally Taylor, Bar Lane Studios, York, UK, York, UK
- 2011 All Say The Same, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire
- 2010 Mouths and Marks, PS2, MIMA - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
- 2010 Mouths with Triangles, Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire
- 2009 'aaa', The Bowery, Leeds, Leeds
- 2009 Raising Voices, South Bank Arts Centre (BCA Gallery), Bedford, Bedfordshire
- 2009 What (Not) To Say, Number 10 Gallery / Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth, Hampshire
- 2008 Draw Breath, gASP (Gallery Art Space Portsmouth), Portsmouth, Hampshire
- 2007 Duologue, Michael West Gallery, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Drawing 2012, One Church Street Gallery, Buckinghamshire
- 2011 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011, Jerwood Space, London & UK Tour, London & UK
- 2011 Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- 2010 You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, North by North Western Festival, Wigan, Lancashire
- 2010 Twelve Constellations, Vulpes, Vulpes Gallery, London
- 2009 Jerwood Drawing Exhibition 2009, Touring UK, Jerwood Space, London
- 2009 'aaa' & 'Did you do it for the art?', The Bowery, Leeds (more info)
- 2009 DIY, Temporary Art Space, Halifax, Yorkshire
- 2009 Personally Political: Drawing, Tacheles Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 800feet, Space, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, Hampshire
- 2008 Works on Paper, Art Projx, Knightsbridge, London
- 2004 Jerwood Drawing 2004, Jerwood Space, London
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