SALLY TAYLORMy paintings and 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 languages of painting and drawing that informs the meaning. In this body of work, I have focused on the recording and mapping social interaction. Through mark-making, I engage with these humanistic themes as intimate / public dialogues are played out on the paper or canvas in an attempt to challenge the validity of language in articulating these aspects of human experience.
The emotional power of the colour red, is entrenched in the content of the work, and is not used as an illustrative or descriptive device. using a wide range of media including felt tips, crayons, biros, marker pens - I have also begun to investigate issues surrounding dialect and its associations. Primitive and 'Outsider Art' have become significant influences as I aim to create work that embraces gesture and impulse in and attempt to achieve images that are raw, painterly and representative of a nervous energy. The intention is to avoid pre-meditation and ideology that could jeopardise the creative process with the 'mouths' used without regard to their potential connotations.
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 the work displays conspicuous references to the human presence, viewers are encouraged to test their own physicality against the work.
"The drawings and paintings ofSally Taylor seem to be in a constant state of urgent communication. She is immersed in a daily studio practice that repeatedly affirms the primacy of the hand drawn mark. Her work is personal and intense. She habitually begins with numerous found blank sheets of paper, which have their own character and history and exert a strong fascination for her. She reworks and assembles them into larger panels, whose seamed and shaped limits present the artist with a suggestive compositional structure upon which she can superimpose her marks. Her insistent and serial process-based practices share some of the characteristics of anyone to endlessly draw and paint. But, for presenting works for exhibition, Taylor positions herself as a creative artist in relation to an 'other' and we, as an audience, are invited to respond. the intensity of her worked surfaces reach out to us i a scream that is both visual and silent, a cry that conveys a profound emotional depth and provides an experience that is consistently powerful."
Jonathan Parsons, arc, Aspex Gallery, 2009
www.sallytaylor.webeden.co.uk
sally-taylor@ntlworld.com
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