Sculpture and installation

It is important that you enjoy sculpture and installation, because it is fun, mostly! This page contains images of artwork, as well as research, from between 2010 to 2021. Below you will see examples of exhibitions, in the form of installations with objects and slide photography, and documentation of residencies as well as studio experimentation.

Upon a plastered wall is mounted a cluster of objects: a base from an old desktop computer monitor, two colourful head scarves boasting blooms of red, gold, green, blue, black and pink. Furthermore, fitted into the structure of the monitor base, are two clay objects. Richard loves editing objects like this, he does the same with copy-editing, painting and sound and video production
Contact and CV for Richard Taylor artist and editor based in Glasgow
Copy-editing and publishing from Richard Taylor artist and editor.
The bottom of a tree trunk gets lost within ivy, and the ivy creates a bed upon the ground for light to play from the left hand side of the image. Half way up the tree trunk sits a pair of green Converse trainers with white trimmings and white laces. Stuffed into the trainers is clay and various painted wooden ends snapped from a bed frame.
Richard works closely with clients to copy-edit their creative writing and essays, as well as PhD transcripts. Also, he provides services to specialist agencies, copy-editing transcribed interviews and exhibition texts.
Two people wearing coats in an industrial setting, who are focussing their eyes on a small yellow sculpture suspended from the roof. The encounter is very intimate.
Contact and CV for Richard Taylor artist and editor
A sequence of objects, yellow and black rope, and XLR cables entwined and hanging from the ceiling in a white room. The objects include 35mm slides in mounts with drawings on them, earrings, cactus flowers and yellow cable ties.
The round lid of an old Rasperry Jelly tin is marked with oil paint as its previous use was a pallet for an oil painting. On the tin lid is a bright picture, in reds and oranges with a background of green and yellow, of a set jelly. The words Raspberry Jelly sit next to the jelly image. The lid itself it on its side with the text facing out to the left of the image. To the right the tin lid's bottom is stuffed into a lump of clay, which is varnished.
Richard Taylor artist and editor exhibiting at Basement Arts Project in Leeds, UK, 2013. Turnip prize winner and expert slide photography projection with stones and unfired clay objects.
In an industrial interior two people stand, wearing headphones, facing large tv monitor attached to the wall. A still image of a rock face is on the screen.

Sculpture from bits

Enjoy sculpture and installation by Richard Taylor artist and editor.

Richard’s sculptures are assembled from objects, which are consequently arranged into larger artworks and installations or, in like manner, compiled for means of digital presentation.

Just for you, here is a list of materials in order to describe what is in this image: broken car suspension coils, some of which are treated with blue metallic spray paint and dressed with cactus offcuts (ouch). Additionally, there are several pink Tyrozet throat lozenges and one or two parts from a home pull-up bar. All of these materials are held together with magnets, yellow cable ties and Vaseline. Furthermore, a glass shelf is used as a stand.

Fallible objects, or assembled crap, such as what is described above, are treated as arrangements that could fall apart at any point. But they also achieve clarity when compiled efficiently.

Artist CV

Solo and two-person projects

2019: ”Genia!’, says Marauder’, Crownpoint East project space, Glasgow (solo)
2018: ‘Love without limits’, Tontine building, Glasgow (solo)
2017: ‘Anonymiser Particular’, No. 35 Gallery, Bannockburn (solo)
2016: ‘In Parting Glass’, Summerhall, Edinburgh (with Riccardo Buscarini)
2015: ‘blue farm, roundhouse, hlâw’, performance, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (solo)
2013: ‘Epigone’, Basement Arts Project, Leeds (solo)
2013: ‘Collider’, Mexico Project Space, Leeds (solo)
2012: ‘Au Dessus De to Hunters Tryst’, AWA Gallery, Amsterdam (with Jennifer Picken)

Group exhibitions and performances

2020: ‘Purgatory Shelf Object Theatre Variety Show’, an online presentation of video and sound production, with Waste Paper Opera and The Open Arms.
2019: ‘咁敢趕幹—岡山國際當代藝術倉庫交流展 dare you do this ffff it’, Taiwan Gangshan District
2017: ‘Front Horse’, evening of poetry and performances, Nottingham
2017: ‘Glasgow School of Art MFA degree show 2017’, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2016: ‘Glasgow School of Art MFA Interim Exhibition’, The Reid Gallery, Glasgow
2015: ‘Paraphernalia #9’, The Poetry Club, Glasgow
2014: ‘Larroque Arts Festival 2014’, Larroque, France
2014: ’12-hour Studio Jamming Symposium’, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Published writing

2019: ‘Glasgow: how to find sanctuary in the dear green place’, Artquest, London
2019: ‘Cample Line: foregrounding rural community and industrial history’, a-n News
2017: ‘Dissecting SIMDA’, The Dancers Inherit the Party, with Sarah Tripp and Little Sparta Trust
2015: ‘Mysterious Proceedings’, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2014: ‘Affinity Drone’, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, edited by Maria Fusco

Residencies

2017: ‘Open Corner’, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2017: ‘Graduate Residency’, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
2015: ‘Research Residency in Art Writing’, Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
2014: ‘Group Critical Writing Residency’, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2013: ‘Embassy Gallery & Mexico Project Space residency exchange’, Leeds

Press

Alan Rutherford, a-n Reviews, October 2019
Claire Walsh, MAP – ‘footnoting the archive’, February 2016
Lesley Guy, Corridor 8, July 2013

Images with exterior links

Enjoy sculpture and installation by Richard Taylor artist and editor.
MFA
Unused local train stations
Leeds and sex
Loved it in Edinburgh
Enjoy sculpture and installation by Richard Taylor artist and editor.
Writing and form
Dressing up at 1am
Richard Taylor is an artist and editor. He spends time painting, offers copy-editing services, and works with sound and video. All of this is done in Glasgow, UK, where he is based.
With your pal
Opportunity
A room with a tall ceiling and white walls, a entrance from the left and a floor to ceiling window on the right, with brick surround. Within the room is an installation of objects, cables, wood, a gaming monitor, a slide projector and speakers. There is a small sculpture on the floor in the foreground, and to the left, in the foreground and on the wall, is a drawing and a photograph.
A good group
Tales of the found pieces
Foray into projection
Amsterdam
Enjoy sculpture and installation by Richard Taylor artist and editor.
Forever summer
Collectivity
Map magazine used to be good