Biography:
Diana Taylor was born 1977,UK. She graduated in 2010 from the Slade School of Fine Art with an M.F.A. in Painting.
She will be artist in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Mallorca (Nov 2012). In 2011 she was Abbey Scholar in Painting at the British School at Rome, and artist in residence at East London Printmakers.
About:
...Diagrams, frames and classifications from guide books, appear amongst floating elements, disrupting the pictorial plane. Images seemingly fall through space… as if they pass or fall through consciousness. Things are falling apart, like contemporary life, toppling from their position and becoming unsettled.
Diana Taylor is an inveterate collector and her bookshelves contain a mass of source material. Much of this comes from childhood, and drawn to things that are lost, she searches for images that are not seen much any more, particularly landscapes which seem to hold longing, or a yearning for a certain place...
excerpt from Alpha Beta show p.r