JO TAYLOR

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Category: Visual Artist
Location: Hertfordshire
Contact: Email


Background

Jo gained a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine art, specialising in Sculpture in her final year. She has undertaken several art courses and achieved a City and Guilds qualification in photography. Jo is currently a Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust and works full time as a mixed media artist.

Jo's recent work has been exhibited at The New Maynard Gallery, Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum Open Studios, Digswell studios and The Farmhouse Art Studios, Hertfordshire.

Statement

I use a variety of mixed media to create work that reflects my take on the world around me.

I work with smoke and soot on glass and am currently in the process of creating a series of smoke-a-graph body prints entitled ‘Body snatchers'. These images are unpredictable and of a delicate nature and are displayed in an illuminated form in coloured light boxes.

I am also working on a project in collaboration with the hypnotist, James Quinn, creating contemporaneous pieces based on my answers to questions posed to me whilst under hypnosis.

Another area of my work, the ‘Revival' series, involves collecting and re-energising photographs from house clearances and second hand markets to make collages and paintings. These works centre on my fascination with loss and the human response to loss. I present the original image to the world again in a renewed visual and temporal context, thereby striving to give them a new lease of life and to immortalise something of the lives they are a testimony to

 

Gallery

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Above images copyright of Jo Taylor 2009-2010

 

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