Unlikely Architectures – Fraser Taylor

Unlikely Architectures presents works spanning a five-year period, made from direct observations of architecture. Drawings provide shapes and gestures that are reconfigured onto different substrates.

Fraser Taylor is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Glasgow with a studio practice rooted in drawing. Fundamental to his making is the transference of images onto cloth by screen-printing, a process that was introduced to his practice in the late 1970s.This allows him to shift the urgency of a drawn mark directly onto fabric, permitting a change in scale and the chance to repeat imagery. Unlikely Architectures presents select works spanning a five-year period, made from direct observations of architecture. Drawings provide shapes and gestures that are reconfigured onto different substrates including board, canvas and cloth. Collectively the work interrogates a language of embedded mark making and materiality which visually hints at an imagined topography.

Fraser Taylor studied Printed Textiles at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He co-founded The Cloth, a creative studio focused on contemporary textile design and production. Since 1983 he has developed an interdisciplinary art practice and exhibited internationally, and his collaborative works includes projects with visual artists, designers, and contemporary dance. As an educator he has lectured at leading fine art and design institutions, and from 2001 until 2017 was a Visiting Artist and Adjunct Full Professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Professorship from The Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow and in 2018 he was appointed the Curator of the Visual Arts Program at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, Scotland. Taylor established HAXTON Studio in 2020 allowing him to revisit methods of making which were prominent in his practice in the 80s. He currently lives and works in Glasgow.