Andrew Taylor (born 1 January 1967) is an Australian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

. Taylor was born in Melbourne, Victoria, where he studied at the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM). It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus ...

from 1985 to 1987, and graduated with a BFA. Some of his works belong to the collections of the

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, of the

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu ...

, of the

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Art Gallery, and to " The Telstra Collection" of the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

. Further works belong to private collections in Australia, in the United States and in France. Taylor has been married to

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since 2002, with three children.Landscapes sweeter from afar
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Exhibitions

* 1988: ** "New Painting", 312 Lennox Street Gallery,

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(solo exhibition) ** "St. Kilda Now", Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda (group exhibition) ** "Dominique Segan Drawing Prize", Castlemaine State Festival (group exhibition) ** "Scotchman Hill Vineyard Art Prize",

Geelong Art Gallery Geelong Gallery, formerly known as Geelong Art Gallery, is a major regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. The Gallery forms Geelong's Cultural Precinct, along with the adjacent Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (Geelo ...

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(group exhibition) * 1989: ** "New Paintings", Garry Anderson Galleries,

Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city suburb in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the Ci ...

(solo exhibition) ** "Art from Elsewhere",

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, Sandy Bay (group exhibition) ** "The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Fellowship", Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne (group exhibition) ** "Australian Painting 1960–1989", 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond (group exhibition) * 1990: ** "Diamonds Are Forever", Botanical Gallery,

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(solo exhibition) ** "Dominique Segan Drawing Prize", Castlemaine State Festival (group exhibition) ** "Scotchman Hill Vineyard Art Prize", Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong (group exhibition) ** "

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Touring Exhibition" (group exhibition) * 1991: ** "The Sub, Ver'sive Stitch", Mori Gallery, Sydney (group exhibition) ** "Contemporary Paintings",

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, Richmond (group exhibition) * 1992: "Recent Paintings", Pinacotheca, Richmond (solo exhibition) * 1993: "Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop", Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy (group exhibition) * 1994: ** "Monotypes", Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy (solo exhibition) ** "Workshop Proofs, A Survey of prints from the Archives", Australian Print Workshop, Doncaster Gallery,

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(group exhibition) * 1995: ** "Recent Paintings", Scope Gallery, Fitzroy (solo exhibition) ** "12th Biannual Spring Festival of Drawings", Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington (group exhibition) ** "Christmas 1995 small works", Scope Gallery, Fitzroy (group exhibition) * 1996: ** "Monotypes and works on paper", Scope Gallery, Fitzroy (solo exhibition) ** "Love", Carlisle Lounge Motel, St Kilda (group exhibition) * 1997: "Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction", George Gallery, St Kilda (group exhibition) * 1998: ** "Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction", George Gallery, St Kilda (group exhibition) ** "Works in Windows",

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(group exhibition) * 1999: ** "Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction", George Gallery, St Kilda (group exhibition) ** "Works in Windows", St Kilda Festival (group exhibition) ** "Exposure (Artists portraits of Artists) ", Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne and Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda (group exhibition) ** "Metropolis Opening Exhibition", Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda (group exhibition) * 2000: ** "Recent Paintings", Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda (solo exhibition) ** "

Dobell Prize The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance ...

for Drawing" (finalist),

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most import ...

(group exhibition) * 2002: "Recent Work" MHA Projects, Los Angeles (solo exhibition) * 2004: "New paintings", Crossley & Scott Gallery, Melbourne (solo exhibition) * 2005: "New paintings", Crossley & Scott Gallery, Melbourne (solo exhibition) * 2007: Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney (solo exhibition) * 2008: ** Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney (solo exhibition) ** "Nature Morte Dead Nature", Rohrer Fine Art,

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(group exhibition) * 2010: **

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(摩羅街中心),

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(solo exhibition) ** "Fresh",

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's ori ...

(group exhibition) ** "Beauty and the Baroque",

Watergate Hotel The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The complex includes a development of cooperative apartment residences. It also includes a hotel and an office building, which ...

, Washington, D.C. (group exhibition) ** "Landscapes", Heather James Fine Art,

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(group exhibition)

External links

Official website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Andrew Australian painters Australian printmakers Victorian College of the Arts alumni Painters from Melbourne 1967 births Living people