Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor, AM is a painter based in Adelaide.
Rod Taylor b.1944, is a retired Associate Professor of Flinders University and retired CEO Adelaide Central School of Art Incorporated, which he co-founded with his then wife, Heather Nicholson in 1982.
He studied art in SA at the South Australian School of Art and in London at St Martins School of Art.
In 1998 he was awarded a fellowship of the Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), and in 2010, he received the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
He has work in both private and public collections. In 2008 Central Gallery held a survey of his paintings and drawings from 1980 to 2008.
Artist Statement
My work usually starts with an idea as either an arrangement of forms - almost invariably involving a figure, or figures - or a narrative suggested by an arrangement of figures in the act of something and sometimes a few salient objects. When there is a “story” it never has a definite meaning. In fact, as long as it has some level of interest for me - without a definite understanding - its meaning in a literary/verbal sense is almost of no concern. The real meaning or intent of the work is almost always the communication of a sense of “otherness”; a sense of something beyond our ordinary awareness that moves us in some way.
When this is achieved it is through the process of actually making the work - that is, though the technical and aesthetic construction of the work. Most obviously it is marked by a “stillness” which, interestingly, given the essentially subjective nature of it all, seems to be commonly observable.The works are about the mystery of things, expressed through craft and the play of formal properties such as space, shape and colour. I am aware of the objective, figurative nature of my inventions, but I don’t think much about their symbolic, literal or verbal meaning. I choose what to make unconsciously and am guided to manipulate them into a satisfying final state intuitively.
Rod Taylor AM
2016
Solo Exhibitions
2016
"New Works" , Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2012
"New Works" , Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Rod Taylor
4 Views of Pinocchio
Medium
archival pigment ink on German etching paper
Edn of 3
Dimensions
100 cm x 80 cm
$3,500
Rod Taylor
woman with Hat, Cat & ladder
All images available in editions of 5
Each print is based ona virtual digital model that, upon request, can be made into a 3D printed sculpture
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
100 x 71 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
standing woman i
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
standing woman iv
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
standing woman v
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
standing woman x
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
woman, hands down
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
pinocchio confesses
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
performers i
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
100 x 71 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
performers ii
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
100 x 71 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
performers iii
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
100 x 71 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
black cat
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
42 x 60 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
cat, a rare breed
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
42 x 60 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
cat and birds
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
100 x 71 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
young woman
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
young pregnant woman with gloves
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
60 x 42 cm
$1,100
Rod Taylor
woman with headdress, 4 views
Medium:
Digital print on archival paper
Dimensions:
71 x 100 cm
$2,200
Rod Taylor
woman with headdress
Medium:
Polymide/nylon
Dimensions:
27 x 8 x 7 cm
$1,500
Rod Taylor
Woman on a Horse Hands Up
Medium:
Polymide/nylon
Dimensions:
40 x 24 x 32 cm