Mia Taylor Painter
Mia Taylor intends to use the gallery to develop new work and evaluate her current practice
She plans to conduct a series of experiments that explore the spatial relationships between the real gallery space and the imaginary space in painting. This will involve responding to the architecture of the gallery, the activities that take place and the interactions between herself and other people (contributors, other 'Laboratory' artists, Jerwood employees and visitors) considering the function of the space and the impact of people regularly walking through it.
Screens will be present in the space allowing her to construct a mobile, temporary studio space to work in. This will offer an amount of privacy in a busy walk through area. Other contributors will be invited to take part in a collaborative project or a tutorial or conversational exchange. The resulting works will be on show, from conception to completion, and will display different aspects of the process simultaneously.
"My practice explores themes of distraction, space, time and duration and examines how time is perceived in a fast changing, time-poor, technologically based environment"
"My primary discipline is painting, which is traditionally two dimensional and associated with longevity and endurance. The content is often intuitive and discovered through the process. It is a response to history of art, changing physical and human geographies and social and personal ideologies. A painting can change radically many times before it is resolved and the process can take many months. Through an overlapping and layering of marks, imagery and meaning I hope to create work that transcends a specific location in time or space. For me, painting can represent a form of time-travel for the imagination, through which I aim to introduce a sense of personal imaginative time."
Mia Taylor studied Fine Art (MA) at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (2005) and Fine Art BA (Hons), First Class, Nottingham Trent University (1996–1999). Recent solos exhibitions include: 'Rad Lovers', Kingsgate Gallery, London (2008). Recent group exhibitions include: Window Gallery, Canary Wharf, London, 'Nordlust', Crimes Town, London, '00 Nature', Contemporary Art Projects, London, 'Tipping Point', Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (2008), 'Hygge', Standpoint Gallery, London, 'Creekside Open', APT Gallery, London selected by Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings, 'Jerwood Contemporary Painters', Jerwood Space, London and touring to Bay Art, Cardiff and The Lowry, Manchester (2007), 'A Moment in Time', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2005) and The East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery (2004). She recently participated in 'Braziers International Artists Workshop', Braziers Park, UK (2008) and Artfest Residency and Travel Grant, Transylvania, Romania (2006). Recent collaboration and events include: 'The Ley Hunters Companion', a 16mm film and video (2008) and 'Stories from Eastern Europe' a touring performance (2006–2007). She lives and works in London.