Details

First Name

Bill

Last Name

Taylor

Username

billtaylor

Website

http://www.billtaylor.scot

Region

Fife

Disciplines

Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking

Themes

Abstract, Environment, Geometric, Landscape

Statement

Statement

My work is essentially landscape-based and is influenced by geometries which occur in nature. Music and poetry are also factors in the development of my work.

In producing work, I tend to select elements from the environment – rhythm / sounds / perspectives / geometries / patterns / atmospheres / movement / flatness / space / divisions / limits / direction / place / presence / light / shade.

The works are basically an abstraction or a translation of these elements and my intention is to communicate a sense of space, movement and order.

Biography

Biography

Born Banff, Scotland.

Studied Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.

Post Graduate Year.

Held several senior posts in art education in Tayside and Fife.

Part-time Lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee.

Assessor in Art & Design for the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

Secretary, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.

Member, Board of Directors, Dundee Contemporary Arts.

 

Collections

The Scottish Arts Council

The McManus, Dundee

Angus District Council

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Collection, Dundee

Art UK

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Centre for Artists’ Books, Dundee University

 

Private Collections in Britain, France, Belgium and USA

 

Publications

Parallels, Exhibition Catalogue, 2020

The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2012

Open an Island, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics/Scottish Natural Heritage, 2007

Consider the Lilies, National Galleries of Scotland, 2006

Island Magazine, 2005

east/west, Artist’s Book, 2005

 

Awards & Commissions

2017

Angus District Council Purchase Prize

1985

Scottish Arts Council/Paisley District Council Commission

1984

Scottish Arts Council Award

1980

Scottish Arts Council Award (Printmaking Bursary)

1971

Prizewinner, Scottish Young Contemporaries

 

Exhibitions

2024

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Made in DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Print 24, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh

2023

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

2022

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

“Unmute”, SSA Curated Exhibition, Dunoon

Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld

Meffan Gallery, Forfar

2021

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

Art UK Print Collection, London

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2020

Tides Changing/Changing Tides, SSA Virtual Exhibition

Urban Departures, SSA Showcase Exhibition, Projectroom2020, presented by ArtNorth

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2019

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Meffan Gallery, Forfar

Parallels, Meffan Gallery, Forfar

2018

Meffan Gallery, Forfar

2017

The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk (Curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA)

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2017

Meffan Gallery, Forfar (Purchase Prize)

Frames Gallery, Perth

2016

Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI), Glasgow

Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Meffan Gallery, Forfar

PrintRoomDundee, Dundee University

Festival Exhibition, EDS Gallery, Edinburgh

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

PrintRoomDundee, Cambo House, Fife

PrintFest, Dundee Contemporary Arts

2015

Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Meffan Gallery, Forfar

2014

Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld

2007

Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts

2003

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2002

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2000

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Angus Open – Arbroath, Forfar

1999

Gallery Forteviot, Forteviot, Perthshire

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

Gifted, The Scottish Arts Council, The McManus, Dundee

1998

Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee University

1996

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

1994

Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee University

1992

Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee University

1991

Dundee 800, The McManus, Dundee

1990

Works on Paper, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

1988

The Silvery Tay, The McManus, Dundee

1987  

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

1985

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

Through other Eyes, Crawford Centre, St Andrews University

1983

Scottish Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Teamworks, Meadowplace Gallery, Dundee

DATA, The McManus, Dundee (Curator)

1981

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1978

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

1977

Dundee Young Artists, The McManus, Dundee

1975

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1974

British Watercolour Today, Rochdale Art Gallery

1973

Contemporary British Art, Rochdale Art Gallery

1971

Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh