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Research: Diana Taylor




  • Diana Taylor was another artist that I found on the off chance for reference material and ideas, I was really attracted to her bold prints.
  • I really liked how she overlapped the images and is something that I have started to explore within my own work. The idea of layering, building an image from images.
  • The colours that she uses are effective and work really well together - colour choice important.
  • Although she mainly focuses on ruined architecture, there are some elements of her practice that interest me - ‘These paintings explore the impermanence of all things; of infrastructures and architecture, memories and family relationships. References to the collapse of civilisations, ruined architecture, the fragmentation of the image and samples from redundant processes or dying crafts, all speak of the destruction and creativity of the human, of the passing of time and history.’ - I find this idea of trying to destroy the traditional by replacing it with the modern interesting, it’s this sense of rebelliousness, the idea of going against the status quo, which I find interesting.
  • In a way, her work also seems be like a protest statement, but also a way of making us aware of how our history is crumbling down around us, and this is what I want to be able to achieve within my own work - to be able to make people aware of things which are happening right now, but we aren’t seeing fully.

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