NICK TAYLOR ART

Nick Taylor

Contact: nicktaylor05@yahoo.ie

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Hi!

I am a contemporary Visual Artist

I currently live and work as a practicing artist in West Cork, Ireland.

Visual art has been my passion since my school days.

I graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2011 with a first class hons degree.

I was awarded the CIT Registrar’s prize in 2011 for exceptional work in the installation Civilisation, at the Crawford degree show exhibition: C:/ forward.

My art practice operates within a broad multidisciplinary and multi layered language. This includes the use of video, sound, sculpture, paint and photographic print elements to communicate a conceptual idea.

My art practice in the 2010s was installation work with an environmental strategy interwoven with geopolitical criticism. This was realised in the form of constructed installations using found objects and a sublime use of video imagery and sound.

I have also designed and exhibited furniture made from contemporary materials.

In recent years, my art practice has been focused on aesthetic and subjective values of the impermanence of the human condition through painting, as well as other media such as video and digital imagery. My work strives to capture a “moment” of existence.

Images of swimmers, reduced to a single frame, are to me the very essence of a captured moment and the imagery is aesthetically pleasing. Much of this work has been obtained by collectors.

NB: If you have an image you would like me to paint please let me know.

Artist CV

PORTFOLIO

New work

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From a photo shoot in Cork City 2023.

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Swimmer series

I am fascinated by how the body is refracted in water and how the light is polorized under the water. Each painting is an endeavour to describe these varying conditions and form in a different way. Style of application varies depending on the subject. The conditions are extremely impermanent, the painting is a ‘snap shot’ of a moment that only exists for a nano fraction of time. The paintings hopefully reflect this. The blue of the pool especially in Mediterranean light conditions is reminiscent of a gorgeous joyful and playful memory. Like a fragment of good times remembered.

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Dynamic Relations

This work is intended to be an allegory of community spirit. A community is a collective of individuals who together, can realise common goals for the benefit of all. I have used jigsaw pieces as a metaphor for the individual. Colour, tone and hue indicates the influence and change that interaction has on the individuals within the group. None of the jigsaw pieces fit together exactly, as in real life no individual is exactly the same as the next, the concerns and motives vary from person to person. However the pieces endeavor to fit together, just as in a community group the individuals have to fit and work together the best they can, for ultimate harmony and the benefit of all. Each individual strives to find a niche within the group that suits his or her needs within the group, despite the enigma of the group dynamics.

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Civilisation Installation

This was a large scale installation using found objects with video elements and projection with sound elements. The found object were mostly recycled white goods repainted. Some of the objects had video elements inside.

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Perspective Distortion

Perspective Distortion is a furniture design project made in collaboration with Jonathan Harvey.

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Other Recent Work

The painting Jack is a painting of my son Jack who has Phelan-Mcdermid Syndrome.

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Free State Butter

This video was made in 2009. It documents the economic and political development of butter in Ireland. The media used is courtesy of The Butter Museum, Cork, Ireland.

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