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Drawing Inferences: solo exhibition

Drawing Inferences was held at the invitation of Emeritus Professor Peter Pinson AM after he had seen the ink drawing ‘Preparations (Serving the Philtre)’ by Taylor in the exhibition, Contemporary Drawing, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (7 March-30 July 2009). The Peter Pinson Gallery focuses on solo exhibitions and survey exhibitions of ‘artists recognized for their significant contribution to Australian art’.

The exhibition presented a representative overview of the role of drawing throughout Taylor’s recent work. The exhibition focused on the exploration of the female subject, through drawings that re-interpret the narrative elements and subjects of selected historic paintings via direct visual transcription of the imagery and iconography together with the large-scale charcoal drawings that interrogate the nature and relationship of the portrayal of the female subject. The drawn inferences extrapolated first hand perceptions of the portrayal of these particular female subjects, from the perspective of the artist, subject and model.

The exhibition included recent works made as the outcome of the Past Within the Present project that resulted in exhibitions at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University (Hercules & Deianira, after Gossaert) with George Blacklock (3 October 2008-25 January 2009), and Sacred Conversations (Potiphar’s Wife, after Celesti), Northampton Museum and Art Gallery with Blacklock and Keir Smith (23 August-5 October 2008) and which explored the role of visual interpretation in the interrogation of meaning and the revealing of new insights in direct relationship to specific works within a museum collection in a comparative context. Cleanse and Distracted were subsequently included in Lines of Thinking (17 November-17 December 2011) at Langford 120, Melbourne, which included Richard Dunn, Mike Parr, Gosia Wlodarczak, and was reviewed for The Age (with Distracted illustrated).

www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/thinking-along-similar-lines-20111122-1nsrq.html

www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/past-exhibitions-and-displays-2009/

collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?slug=contemporarydrawings&exhibition=9&offset=15

www.peterpinsongallery.com/about/

www.langford120.com.au/lines-of-thinking1.html

eprints.utas.edu.au/9611/