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Nick Taylor - Artist

Nick Taylor's art practice works within a broad multidisciplinary and multi layered language. This includes the use of video, sound, sculpture, paint, and photographic print elements to communicate a conceptual idea.

His recent work has an environmental strategy interwoven with geopolitical criticism. He has been constructing art installations using found objects and a sublime use of video imagery.

Civilization 1. Nick highlights the fact that millions of tons of plastic waste is discarded into the oceans annually. It litters beaches as drift plastic or is worn down into plastic sand by the action of the waves. Some plastic become oceanic ‘gyre’s the size of Texas. This work is a slightly ironic endeavor to highlight this phenomenon by taking found plastic objects from the sea and redefining them by discovering their inherent beauty. The objects become the beauty in the sublime. Nick collected and removed waste plastic from the beaches of West Cork. This includes plastic bottles children's toys, shoes, and shot gun cartridges. The items were assembled into an amazing thought provoking installations highlighting the appalling amount of plastic waste in our oceans.

Civilization 2. In this work Nick continues the use of recycled found objects. He has constructed a pseudo-city made of used household white goods, such as fridge's, dish washers and microwave ovens. The ‘city‘ is brought to life using video imagery and sound. The objects have been re-rendered to enhance a concrete jungle feel. In this work he seeks to question the useful life span of our labour saving devices and the global urban generic environments of our modern cities. In this room-size and rather hypnotic installation, the viewer is invited to interact, consider and question its meaning in a visually enjoyable way.

Civilization 3. Continuing on the urban theme this audio only ‘sound art’ installation celebrates the audio richness of the urban environment. Using recorded sounds of the city he has created a multi layered and rich audio tapestry he has created a ‘sound scape.’ The work is compelling and spellbinding 20 min journey through an imaginary global city which ends in a relaxing cup of coffee.

Links related to this article: In No Particular Order ;-)

• C:/Forward Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Show 2011 To Call to Attention
• Facebook - Opening of C:/Forward Opening on Friday the 17th June.
• Nick Taylor Previous Virtu - Art Interviews

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