SLQS Gallery is pleased to announce its first international collaboration with DON'T LOOK Projects in Los Angeles, presenting 'Flotsam and Jetsam' a solo exhibition of new works by Diana Taylor
Diana Taylor lives and works in the UK. Working across painting, print and textiles, and shifting between traditional and digital media, Taylor explores the impact of the past upon the present - living in an age of the ‘re’. The images and processes in the work are linked by a pre-occupation with loss and ruin in visual culture through the circulation, saturation and degradation of files. Deriving mostly from obsolete books and printed ephemera, her image bank comprises illustrations, diagrams, taxonomies, patterns and infographics revolving around themes of making and materiality. The references span multiple histories from prehistoric Britain, Ancient Greece and Rome, Classical architecture, Medieval printed illustrations, designs from the Arts and Crafts movement and Victorian needlework patterns. Along with these printed, archival images, pictures of destruction depicting aftermaths from natural disasters are sourced from online news sites and further subjected to a kind of entropy through processes of ruination and fragmentation in digital undo, un-painting and un-making.
Taylor is a recipient of the Andrew. W Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington, which she is undertaking in July and August 2025. Last year Taylor was an artist in residence at 18th St. Arts Centre, Santa Monica, from September to December 2024. She completed a practice-based PhD with the William Morris Gallery, London, through Sheffield Hallam University, 2023. Taylor graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London with an M.F.A in Painting, in 2010.
Recent solo exhibitions include Borrowed Time, Bobinska Brownlee, London (2024); A Ghost for Today, William Morris Gallery, London (2022); Phantom Yarns, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus (2021) and Cyprus High Commission Gallery, London (2022); Can we Hold on?, CCA, Mallorca (2018-2019).
Recent selected group exhibitions include A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Stable, Bobinska Brownlee New River (2023-2024); A Painting Show, Benjamin Parsons Gallery, Oxford; Montage, Fabrik, Baterswil, Switzerland.
Residencies include 18th St Arts Centre, L.A. (September-December 2024); CCA Andratx, Mallorca (April and September 2018); Factory floor residency, in response to ‘Love is Enough’, William Morris & Andy Warhol, curated by Jeremy Deller, Modern Art Oxford (2015); CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2012); East London Printmakers (2011); Abbey Scholarship in Painting, British School at Rome & Rosa Lee Travel Award (2011); Graduate Printmaking Prize Winner, Jealous Print Studios (2010).