Ross Taylor
Ross Taylor’s luminous landscapes intertwine a meticulous, process-driven painting practice with his deep connection to Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country in Australia. Drawing inspiration from the theatricality of historical landscape painting, Taylor employs techniques such as scumbling, mottling, and bleeding to dissolve the boundaries between abstraction and representation. His vivid natural forms do not serve as literal depictions but rather emerge as psychologically and spiritually charged terrains shaped by the fluidity and fragility of memory. These works emphasise materiality and invite an emotional engagement with place, encouraging slow, contemplative reflection through the poetic interplay of colour and light.
Born in Northumberland, England, Ross Taylor is currently based on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country in Naarm (Australia). In 2005, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), followed by mentorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich (Germany) under Professors Sean Scully and Nikolaus Lang.
Taylor has developed an accomplished international career, marked by a consistent record of exhibitions including solo exhibition Field Notes at Bendigo Art Gallery (AU). He has works held in major public and private collections across Australia, Asia, Europe, the USA, and the UK, and has been a finalist in numerous prestigious art awards, including the Len Fox Award (AU), John Leslie Art Prize (AU), Paul Guest Prize (AU), Sunshine Coast Art Prize (AU), and The Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Hong Kong (HKSAR). Taylor has received travel grants, commissions, and residency funding from organisations such as NAVA, Creative Victoria, and Arts Council England and Australia. His artist residencies include Globe Gallery (UK) and Art Space Tetra (Japan).
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ROSS TAYLOR SELECTED AS A FINALIST IN THE LEN FOX PAINTING PRIZE
Ross Taylor has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, a $50,000 acquisitive painting prize awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox.
Works by Taylor and other shortlisted artists are on display at Castlemaine Art Museum until 13 June 2022.
Image: Ross Taylor, The one's we couldn't be, 2021
ROSS TAYLOR SHORTLISTED IN THE 2021 SOVEREIGN ASIAN ART PRIZE
Ross Taylor has been selected as a finalist in the 2021 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Asia's most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.
Taylor's Ember, 2021 a landscape of Central Victoria, is painted from different viewpoints, capturing the forces that have shaped it through time and the way in which our memories are formed.
Read about the artist and his work in an interview ahead of the winner announcement. Voting is open online until 23 May 2021.
Image: Ross Taylor, Ember, 2021
ROSS TAYLOR AT THE AGA KHAN CENTRE
Ross Taylor is included in Making Paradise at the AGA Khan Centre, London.
This collaborative project invites us to explore concepts of Eden through Art and Islamic garden design. The exhibition includes the work of artists Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh, Veeda Ahmed, Mohammad Barrangi, Jung Byun, Clare Celeste Boersch, Jethro Buck, Rachel Dein, Yasmin Hayat, Sharmina Haq, Zarah Hussain, Jane Lee McCracken, Karen Nicol, Olga Prinku, Geoff Sample, Shorsh Saleh, Soraya Syed and Ross Taylor.
The exhibition is on display until 30 September 2021.
Image: Ross Taylor, Dance, sparkle and flow, 2021 (detail)
ROSS TAYLOR AT AGA KHAN CENTRE
Works by Ross Taylor will be included in the forthcoming Making Paradise exhibition at the AGA Khan Centre in London. The exhibition explores the concept of Eden through art and Islamic garden design.
Taylor's next solo exhibition at the gallery will open in June 2021. To join our waiting list, please contact the gallery.
Image: Ross Taylor, The wait, 2020
ROSS TAYLOR INTERVIEWED ON CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTORS
Ross Taylor was recently interviewed on Contemporary Art Collectors.
About his work, Taylor says: 'I reference a mixed bag of imagery, from childhood holiday spots, domestic scenes and the natural world, playfully interrogating notions of my own personal history and memory. From one work to the next, the composition is morphing, shifting, self-referencing and abstracting, all according to the process of remembering. I suppose my aim for the viewer is to draw upon the complexity of the image as a critical expression of recalling an experience.'
Taylors next solo exhibition will open at the gallery in June 2021. To request a preview, please contact the gallery.
Image: Ross Taylor, Sonic fruits, 2020
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