John Richard James Taylor

John R. J. Taylor was born in Scotland in 1958.He studied art and photography at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. His work has been collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of London and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas, USA. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and in the USA.


'I have always been amazed and fascinated at the way the world looks. As a child I would lose myself for ages on the edge of streams and rivers staring in rapt amazement at the play of light on the moving water finding its way over and round stones rocks and tree roots. At the coast I could gaze for hours in wonder at the vast distances of the sea and the incessant hypnotic repetition of seawater breaking over the pools and rocks of the shore, also like many children I could spend large chunks of unworried time lying on my back on the fields behind my home mesmerised by the endless procession of clouds sliding by above me on the brilliant blue backdrop of the sky. Unapologetically I find the everyday world a fascinating place, scrutinising and photographing it is my joy, my obsession. My images are a celebration of what occurs naturally, ever...

Studied art and photography at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland and photography at the Royal College of Art in London.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS.

1982 Nikon UK Young Photographers Competition, Nikon Gallery, London.
1984 Welsh Open Exhibition, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
1986 New Landscapes, Victoria and Albert Museum London.
1986 South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall.
1986 New Landscapes, Victoria and Albert Museum London.
1987 Marking Time, Museum of London
1988 Urban News City Blues, Framework
Independent Photographers Collective, London.
1988 The Mind, Impressions Gallery of Photography York, touring UK.
1990 New Scottish Photography, National Portrait
Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1990 Household Choices, Victoria and Albert Museum London,
1990 Camera Art in Scotland Now Houston Fotofest, USA.
1991 New Scottish Photography, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Scotland.
1992 Nueva Fotografia Escocesa, Centro Cultural Del Conde Duque, Madrid.
1994 Whos Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
2004 The Art Of the Garden, Tate Britain London, Ulster Museum Belfast
and Manchester Art Gallery, 2005.
2012 'Island Stories,Fifty Years of British Documentary Photography' Victoria and Albert Museum, London

SOLO SHOWS

1986 Peoples Gallery, London. ...