Scottish artist, Suzanne Taylor, is the latest in a series of artists to exhibit at the Townhouse. Her collection, “Visual Ticks”, will be available to view until the 4th of December.
“Visual Ticks” is a collection of hand-crafted collages which bring together unique elements of vintage nostalgia. The collages are made up of ready-made images Taylor found through countless hours spent in second hand bookstores searching for the perfect elements to put together.
Suzanne studied at Glasgow University and went on to gain her Masters in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art where she now teaches. She began making collages as a way of formulating her final ideas and compositions for paintings. Taylor loved the medium so much that the collages then became the final piece, as she felt the idea she was trying to encapsulate in a painting was better conveyed within her collages.
Suzanne’s work follows themes of femininity, sexuality, consumption, and climate change and is Taylor’s ode to the glamour years. Her work certainly encourages a sense of nostalgia to the pre digital era and its aesthetics and culture.
The collages are made from a selection of images that may relate in some sense but contradict in others. Taylor describes them as “a visual oxymoron with uncanny tendencies”; some images are in complete opposition to one another whereas others somehow have a relationship to one another if you look close enough. Her pieces play with social ideas both current and past, such as one of a carefree dancer placed in a kitchen, which is symbolic of 1950’s female servitude. The size of the images she chooses is just as important as the image itself, and plays a huge part in how she puts together her final compositions.
Taylor recently exhibited at Saatchi as part of The Other Art Fair in London. Suzanne Taylor’s works are now available to view until the 4th of December at Gleneagles Townhouse, St Andrew Square for Townhouse members, hotel guests and diners at the Spence.
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