ANDREW TAYLOR OUTSIDE ; 11 : 24
ANDREW TAYLOR OUTSIDE ; 11 : 24
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
The Cat Street Gallery is proud to present a brand new show of works by celebrated Australian artist, Andrew Taylor. Returning to Hong Kong with his second solo show, Taylor brings this latest series of paintings, celebrating a new colour palette with his trademark floral motifs that act as moments frozen in time. In a world saturated with images and hyperventilating with speed, Taylor finds room to pause and reflect. His engaging yet subtle canvasses present the viewer with a window into the artist’s vision - one where the natural world reigns supreme, and stands still, giving us a moment to reflect and dream. In a sense, each work is a metaphor for the modern condition - which seeks out equilibrium and calm amidst chaos and commerce. Though the artist works in response to intensity of contemporary society, Taylor’s work is neither nihilistic nor pessimistic. Rather, the canvasses celebrate what is still wonderful and possible in the twenty-first century. These are artworks which are made all the more vibrant by their refusal to be swept up by an industrialized, digitized, commodified and globalised age. A truly gifted colourist, Taylor’s compositions balance a figurative yet abstract line, often with an eastern sensibility in his cherry blossom imagery. Such sensibilities draw further still from the artists’ insistence that one should be able to seek solace in the natural world, and be joyful of it in the face of our rapidly moving world around us. Such expertly balanced, composed and coloured works are a delight to see, and as such Taylor continues to exhibit around the world to great acclaim.
Mandy d’Abo Founder and Director The Cat Street Gallery
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Plate 1: Outside: 12:16 Oil on acrylic 15 x 21 cm 2013
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Plate 2: Outside: 12:19 Oil on acrylic 15 x 21 cm 2013
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Plate 3: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 09:05 Oil on board 31 x 31 cm 2013
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Plate 4: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 10:16 Oil on linen 31 x 31 cm 2013
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Plate 5: Outside: 21:31 Oil on board 31 x 31 cm 2013
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Plate 6: Outside: 05:08 Oil on board 24 x 27 cm 2012
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Plate 7: Outside: 16:58 Oil on board 24 x 27 cm 2012
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Plate 8: Outside: 10:04 Oil on linen 35 x 35 cm 2013
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Plate 9: Outside: 10:19
Plate 10: Outside: 10:20
Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic 60 x 100 cm 2010
Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic 60 x 100 cm 2010
Plate 11: Outside: 10:21
Plate 12: Outside: 10:22
Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic 60 x 100 cm 2010
Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic 60 x 100 cm 2010
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Plate 13: Outside: 08:30 (double sided) Indian ink and wax on tissue 62 x 92 cm 2013
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Plate 14: Outside: Gustave 11:04 Oil on linen 61 x 61 cm 2013
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Plate 15: Outside: Orangerie 14:03 Oil on linen 61 x 61 cm 2013
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Plate 16: Outside: Twine 2:15 Oil on linen 61 x 61 cm 2013
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Plate 17: Outside: Nocturnis 02:03 Oil on linen 66 x 46 cm 2013
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Plate 18: Outside: Nocturnis 05:56 Oil on linen 66 x 46 cm 2013
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Plate 19: Outsides Oil on linen 92 x 92 cm 2013
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Plate 20: Outside: 16:10 Oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm 2013
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Plate 21: Outside: Alscase Oil on canvas 92 x 92 cm 2013
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Plate 22: Outside: Canestra di Frutta Oil on canvas 122 x 122 cm 2013
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Plate 23: Outside: Memphis Oil on canvas 122 x 122 cm 2013
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Plate 24: Outside: 01:13 Oil on linen 183 x 61 cm 2013
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Plate 25: Outside: Nocturnis 20:08 Oil on linen 183 x 61 cm 2013
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Plate 26: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 11:05 Oil on linen 183 x 213 cm 2013
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BIOGRAPHY
Born 1967, Melbourne, Australia SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Outside: 11;24, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 Outside: Periphery, Heather James Gallery, Palm Dessert Outside: From the Pephery, Tim Olsen, Sydney 2011 platform LA, part of the Pacific Standard Time, initiative Los Angeles Outside: Far Away, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York 2010 The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2008 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney NSW 2007 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney NSW 2005 Crossley Scott Gallery New paintings 2004 Crossley Scott Gallery New paintings 2002 Recent Work, MHA Projects Los Angeles 2000 Recent Paintings, Metropolis Gallery, St. Kilda 1996 Monotypes and works on paper, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy 1995 Recent Paintings, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy 1994 Monotypes, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy 1992 Recent Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond 1990 Diamonds are Forever, Botanical Gallery, South Yarra 1989 New Painting, Garry Anderson Galleries, Darlinghurst, NSW 1988 New Painting, at 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Fresh, MOCA Los Angeles, CA USA Beauty and the Baroque, W Hotel commission Washington DC, Curated by Chip Tom Landscapes, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA 2008 Nature Morte Dead Nature, Rohrer Fine Art Laguna Beach, CA USA 2000 Dobel Drawing Prize, (finalist) at National Gallery of New South Wales 1999
Exposure (Artists portraits of Artists), at Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne and at Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda Works in Windows, The St. Kilda Festival Metropolis Opening Exhibition, at Metropolis Gallery, St. Kilda
1998 Works in Windows, The St. Kilda Festival Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda 1997 Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda 1996 Love, Carlisle Lounge Motel, St. Kilda 1995 12th Biannual Spring Festival of Drawings (Invitation), Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington Christmas 1995 small works, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy 1994 Workshop Proofs, A Survey of prints from the Archives, Australian Print Workshop, Doncaster Gallery, Doncaster 1993 Monotypes from the Garner Toullis Workshop, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy 1991 The Sub, Ver’sive Stitch, Mori Gallery, Leichharat NSW Contemporary Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond 1990 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition The Dominique Segan Castlemaine Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival 1989 Art from Elsewhere, The University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Tasmania The Murdoch Fellowship, School Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne Australian Painting 1960 - 1989, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond 1988 The Dominique Segan Castlemaine Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival The Scotchman’s Hill Acquisition Art Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong St. Kilda Now, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda 1987 Graduate Show at School of Fine Art, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne
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PUBLISHED The Age November 1988, “Simultaneously accessible and mysterious explicit and puzzling” (Gary Gatalaro) Vogue Living October 1989 (Page 136) New Art Three 1989, “Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art” (Neville Drury) The Age August 17th 1990, Galleries (Jan Blendofs) Moet & Chandon Turing Exhibition Catalogue 1991 (Francis Lindsay) The Weekend Australian September 21st 1991, “Serious Funny Business” (Robert Rooney) The Age September 30th 1992, “Unassuming pictures from an alcove at an imaginary exhibition” (Christopher Heathcote) The Weekend Australian October 10th 1992, “Figuring out fun of the fair” Robert Rooney) Workshop Proof Catalogue 1994 (Laurie Benson) Exposure Catalogue 1999 (Anna Clabburn) Melbourne Theatre Company Brilliant Lies, Front cover for Publicity Brochure
COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Victoria Art Bank Shepparton Art gallery Telstra Collection Australian National University Private Collections in Australia, USA and France
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