Film Panorama, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 170cm x 53.5cm

 

After graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Fine Art, Simon Taylor has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions throughout Europe.

Using various mediums, including photography and painting, the work is part of a continuing project started in 1993 based around ideas of perception; with genuine responses to modern life including subjects such as televisualisation, film theory, popular and mass culture and identity.

Winning the Sefton Open Art Prize in 2006 his work has been purchased by many private collectors, public collectors and galleries.  Original paintings and images have been used for television productions and a variety of publications worldwide.

His painting process is complex. Working from photographs taken from life and film stills, he digitally manipulates the images and reproduces them using acrylic and oil paint on canvas.

In Simon Taylors latest works titled 'Film Panoramas' figures and scenes from films are edited so characters and situations happen at different times; characters interact with others from previous or future stills from different points in the original movie.

The manipulation of film time and re appropriation of the scene creates a false environment never directed, edited or filmed, offering a second view and narrative directed, edited and painted by the artist. Thus creating another level and world mediated by the artist/director when it is transferred from a film image to a painting.

The artist becomes the director editing the film image creating narratives that exist only on the painted surface, the painting becoming the world that the viewer sees and can relate to on different levels depending on their experiences within their own outside world or previous experiences.

 

 

Film Panorama, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 170cm x 53.5cm

 

 

Open Studio 13th - 14th June 2009

 

Simon Taylor is represented by galleries and agents in Dublin, London and Manchester.

 

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions
Memory Stills: The Atkinson Art Gallery, Lord Street, Southport. 15 Mar 08 - 31 May 08.
Memory Stills: LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester . 30 Oct - 14 Nov 07.
Memory Stills: Lowry Hotel, Manchester. 15 Jun - 01 Aug 06.
Paperchase: April 02 Manchester.
Bar Simple: Tib Street Manchester. 05 Nov – 28 Feb 01.
Huddersfield Art Gallery: 30 May - 25 Jul 98.
Batley Art Gallery: 23 May - 04 Jul 98. 
Harris Museum & Art Gallery: Preston. 15 May - 12 Jul 97.
Manchester City Art Gallery: 11 Jan - 13 Apr 97.
Viewpoint Photography Gallery: Salford . 31 Jul - 03 Sep 95.

Group Exhibitions
Capture Manchester: CUBE, 113 - 115 Portland Street, Manchester. 27 Mar - 18 Apr 09.
Art and Artists: Lowry Hotel, Manchester. 05 Mar - 14 Apr 09.
Comtemporary Painting: Lowry Hotel, Manchester. 27 Nov 08 - 20 Jan 09.
Oisin Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. 08 Nov - 31 Dec 08.
Present: Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, Barnsley. 29 Nov - 21 Dec 08.
Buy Art Fair: (Represented by Comme Ca Art Limited) - Urbis, Manchester. 09 - 12 Oct 08.
ArtMap Manchester 2008: Starbucks, Princess Street, Manchester. 01 Aug - 30 Sep 08.
Oisin Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. 14 June - 14 July 08.
Rogue Studios: Crusader Mill, 66 Chapeltown Street. Manchester. 15 - 18 May 08.
Oisin Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. 11 Nov - 22 Dec 07.
Comme Ca Art Ltd Edition Print Collection: Lowry Hotel, Manchester. 29 Nov - 15 Jan 08.
All Beginning With... : Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester. 02 Nov - 11 Nov 07.
Sefton Open Exhibition 2007: The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport. 15 Sep - 04 Nov 07.
Contemporary Art for a Modernist Building: Derby Conference Centre. 22 May - 15 Aug 07.
Oisin Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. 14th Jun-14 Jul 07.
Inspirational Artworks for Modern Living: Lowry Hotel, Manchester. 08 Mar - 17 Apr 07.
Oisin Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. Jan- Apr 07.
Ligne Roset: 64 Bridge Street, Manchester. 12 Dec 06 - 30 Jan 07.
Rogue Studios: Crusader Mill, 66 Chapeltown Street. Manchester. Nov 07.
Artist Cut and Open Studios: Bankley Studios and Gallery Manchester. 13-20 Oct 06.
Sefton Open Exhibition 2006: (1st prize winner of the Sefton Open 2006) The Atkinson Art Gallery, Lord Street, Southport. 12 Sep - 05 Nov 06.
Ligne Roset: 64 Bridge Street, Manchester. 10 May - 30 Oct 06.
Oisin Art Gallery: 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. 15 Jun - 15 Jul 06.
New Trends in Painting Since 2000: LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester. 22 Apr - 05 May 06.
Smallpond Launch Event: The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 28 Hulme Street, Manchester. 11-17 Mar 06.
Lowry Hotel: Manchester. Jan 06 - Feb 06.
Bankley Studios and Gallery: Manchester. 11-13 Nov 05.
A Self Portrait: The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria. 05 Jun - 04 Jul 99.
Bluecoat Gallery: Liverpool. Christmas 1997.
Castlefield Gallery: Manchester. 11 Apr - 16 May 97.
Young Parents: Three Month Gallery, Manchester. 22 Mar - 31 Mar 97.
Select: Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. 30 Nov - 21 Dec 96.
The North West Open Photography Exhibition: Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Then toured the UK. Dec 96 - 1998.
The Glasgow School of Art: 06 Aug - 18 Aug 94.
Fresh Art: The Business Design Centre, London. 21 Jul - 31 Jul 94.
Manchester Metropolitan University Degree Show: Medlock Fine Art Centre. 18 Jun - 22 Jun 94.
The North West Open Photography Exhibition:
The Open Eye Gallery Liverpool: 07 Dec 93 - 15 Jan 94.
Oldham Art Gallery: 12 Feb - 10 Apr 94.
Viewpoint Gallery Salford: 05 May - 19 Jun 94.
Brewery Arts Centre Kendal: 26 Jun - 22 Jul 94.
Bury Art Gallery and Museum: 06 Aug - 03 Sep 94.
Stockport Art Gallery: 21 Sep - 20th Oct 94.

 

Awards/Competitions
1st prize winner of the Sefton Open exhibition 2006.

 

Projects and Commissions 
ITV: Paintings used for the production of Blue Murder, Filmed May 08. Screened Autumn 08.
Lowry Hotel: Manchester: Painting commission. November 2007.
Urban Splash: Paintings used for promotion and publicity, Manchester 2007.
Crosby Homes: Paintings used for a penthouse apartment at Singleton Hall, Poulton-le-Fylde 2007.
Snow Leopard Vodka: Painting commission. September 2006.
Granada Television: Paintings used for the production of Vincent 2, Filmed Mar/April 06. Screened Autumn 06.
Site Specific Photographs: Parochial C E Primary School. March 2001.
Photographer in Residence: Royds Hall High School. October 1998.

 

Publications 
The Metro Newspaper: 3 Jul 2006, 5 Questions for... Simon Taylor, Memory Stills, Lowry Hotel Exhibition.
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner: No 44,365 5 Jun 1998 Review of Huddersfield Art Gallery Exhibition.
The Big Issue: No152 31 Mar - 6 Apr 1997 Review of Manchester City Art Gallery Exhibition. 
The Guardian Guide: 7 Dec 1996 Review of Select.
British Journal of Photography: No 6982 13 Jul 1994 Review of the North West Open.Time Out magazine: No 1248 20 - 27 Jul 1994 Work used to advertise Fresh Art.

 

For more information and other works by Simon Taylor visit:  www.stimages.co.uk