Drawn Together – Two Step: Fraser Taylor and Beth Shapeero

During lockdown, the artists sent A4 drawings back and forth by Royal Mail to one and other, allowing them to continue their collaborative practice.

Beth Shapeero (b.1985) and Fraser Taylor (b.1960) began their collaboration Two-Step after meeting and discovering one another’s practice while on residence at the Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, in 2017 The artists took their first steps working together at Glasgow Print Studio in 2018, where they developed their individual aesthetics into a new language of rhythm and mark. The back and forth of their interaction is fast paced, harmonious and in sync, like a dance.

Beth Shapeero is an emerging artist from Nottingham who has lived and worked in Glasgow since 2011. Fraser Taylor, originally from Glasgow, is an established artist and has spent a significant part of his career working in Chicago where he was a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beth graduated her BA in Fine Art (Hons) at Nottingham Trent University in 2008 before relocating to Glasgow for the M.Litt in Fine Art Practice in 2011. Fraser graduated from GSA in 1981 with a BA in Printed Textiles and an MA in 1983 from the RCA in London. He returned to live and work in Glasgow in 2017.