Diana Taylor

Working with a multi-disciplinary practice, across painting, printing, needlework, weaving, collage and 3D scanning, I converge historical references from analogue and digital archives: assembling, layering, painting and un-painting. My work addresses the lingering presence of the past within the present, examining constructs of our contemporary condition as punctuated by anachronism, contradiction and multi-temporality.
The merging of English and Greek-Cypriot cultures of my genealogical background has, undoubtedly, shaped my assemblage based approach. Reproductions from books on prehistoric Britain, Ancient Greece and Rome, Baroque ornament, the arts and crafts movement float amongst the vestiges of Modernist and contemporary motifs, digital clip art and analogue stock imagery from printers’ catalogues.
These images and processes are linked by my pre-occupation with loss, redundancy and the ruin in visual culture, with an emphasis on the collapsing of hierarchies. Screen-printing, photocopiers and analogue projectors are used as much for their visual qualities as for their inherent ability to produce failures. The reproduced image is once again scanned, photocopied and digitally edited and so subjected to a kind of entropy, h...

2017-23 Practice based PhD researcher, in collaboration with the William Morris Gallery, London; Sheffield Hallam University.
2008-10 M.F.A: Painting. Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2002-03 P.G.C.E Art & Design, Institute of Education,
London.
1996-99 B.A.(Hons) Fine Art: Painting. Bath Spa Uni. College

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Borrowed Time, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery, London
2021 A Ghost for Today, William Morris Gallery, London.
2021/2022 Phantom Yarns, Art seen contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus and Cyprus High Commission, London.
2018-9 Can We Hold on? Centre of Contemporary Art, Mallorca, Spain
2014 Wonders of the System, CCA, Mallorca, Spain
2011 Alpha Beta, R O O M, London, UK
2010 Climbing, Falling, Intervention Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London
2023 Stable, Bobinska Brownlee New River, London.
A Painting Show, Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne Gallery, Oxford
Montage, curated by Giulia Hess and Sebastian Lendenmann, Fabrik Baterswil, Switzerland.
Oh, tell me where your freedom lies- you'd rather cry, I'd rather fly, POSTROOM Gallery, London, curated by Sandie Macrae.
Seeds, Trees and Mountains, curated by Esen Kaya. The Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London.
Side Step, curated by Anna Lytridou. SETSETSET, Ealing, London.
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