exhibitions & events 2024

Prints & Paintings: A survey of work by John Taylor

Glasgow Print Studio is proud to present a survey of John Taylor’s work, spanning several decades. An accomplished painter and printmaker, Taylor’s practise is notable by the scope of technique and subject matter explored.

Always one to tread his own path, this survey of work brings the audience into a diverse and vigorous enquiry into the world around us. Elegant, abstract compositions invite the viewer into masterful fields of colour and formal composition. Elsewhere the audience is taken on a journey through Glasgow’s lesser-worn paths, gentle skies shimmering over the roofs of doocots, with a nod to both the past and the future.

As the writer James Kelman once said, “Taylor's work is important art, beautiful art.”

John Taylor was born in Darvel, Scotland in 1936. He gained a Diploma of Art in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 1959, and a Higher Diploma of Art at Birmingham Polytechnic in 1973, where he learned to screenprint.
 
Taylor began working as an editioning screen printer at the Glasgow Print Studio in 1973. He has had four solo exhibitions in the gallery since 1978.

Taylor is represented in many collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Maclaurin Art Gallery Ayr, Birmingham Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Hunterian Print Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Dick Institute Kilmarnock, The British Museum, The Fleming Collection and the Contemporary Art Society.

Image: John Taylor, 'The Big Drop', screenprint, 56 x 43 cm.