DIANA TAYLOR

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Working across painting, textile assemblage, collage and weaving, shifting between analogue and digital media, my practice converges temporalities and technologies, re-assembling the past through an archive of reproductions to investigate a material presence of our times- living in an age of the ‘re’. The images and processes in my work are linked by my pre-occupation with loss and ruin of visual culture through the circulation, saturation and degradation of files. Images are subjected to a kind of digital entropy and fragmentation. My British/Greek-Cypriot genealogical background has undoubtedly shaped my assemblage approach, collapsing hierarchies in arts and crafts, ancient and modern, high and low culture, and other assumed dichotomies. Ancient Greek sculptures float amongst patterns, Morris fabrics, grids, illustrations of prehistoric tools and other archival images. My processes reflect our contemporary condition, as punctuated by contradiction, anachronism and poly-temporality through the continuous push/pull, decision/indecision of painting/ un-painting, making and un-making. The textile assemblages combine remnants from paintings, combined with found samples and screen-prints of flattened 3D scans mapping folded fabrics. Craft processes of crotchet, embroidery and the weave of traditional cloths are scanned, enlarged, screen-printed and then worked back into with hand-stitching. These prints are repeated throughout the paintings, assemblages and digital collages....

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