Artist Profile – Dylan Taylor


Dylan Taylor's current work is informed by the observation of economic and social status, the division of class systems, and the despondency often present within subjects at opposite ends of the socio-economic scale.

With a strong base of drawing and painting, his works are frequently executed on found media such as children's story books, and popular women's magazines from the 1950's.

Drawing from a golden age of commercial media, imagery depicting idealized scenes and utopian ideologies are hijacked and defaced to subvert their meaning with a social, political, or culturally disruptive theme in place.

Influences on Taylor's work include: the internet, gang culture, porn, spam emails, graffiti, vandalism, unpopular culture, depression, music and Dimitri's Souvlakis.

Whether the narrative is being delivered from the author's viewpoint, or is the zeitgeist of a contemporary or past age is uncertain. Taylor's works are purposefully ambiguous, playfully crude, and darkly comic.

Awards

  • Margaret Hudson Ware Award for Painting - 2004

Exhibitions

  • 2008 Dylan Taylor - 'ALL UP IN YR GRILL!' (COCA)
  • 2008 'Preview - 40 South Island Artists'
  • 2008 Board Art 2008, COCA Gallery, The New Dowse Gallery
  • 2008 HSP Christmas Show
  • 2009 Board Art 2009
  • 2009 Kill Yr Idols, Eat Yr Heroes - COCA Gallery
 

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Works by Dylan Taylor (Page 1 of 8)

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Charlotte Burgess & Dylan Taylor - 'Cautious Golly'

Charlotte Burgess & Dylan Taylor - 'Cautious Golly'

  • Sponge cake, jam, cream, matte icing
  • 80cm diameter (approx)

'Xpressway to yr skull'

[SOLD] 'Xpressway to yr skull'

  • Gouache on ply
  • This piece has been sold

 

'Soft as Snow (But warm inside)'

'Soft as Snow (But warm inside)'

  • Gouache on ply
  • Purchase price: $350

'Bottle in front of me, frontal lobotomy'

'Bottle in front of me, frontal lobotomy'

  • Gouache on ply
  • Purchase price: $250

'Bukkake'

'Bukkake'

  • Gouache & enamel on ply
  • Purchase price: $150
 
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