NEIL TAYLOR
neil taylor sculpture gallery artist australia
Deakin University
The highly rhythmic and patterned sculptures have highly engaging optical effects, but simultaneously evoke a meditative mood and reflect his fascination with variations in perspective and the use of structure and line.
Artlink- Sarah Thomas
Like the artist himself, the works speak with a gentle eloquence, prompting thoughts about the relationship between form and space, mass and volume, geometry and nature, line and structure. Not far below the geometry of their structure, however, they reveal (often in their titles) the artist's broader humanistic concerns such as the future of the natural environment and what it means to be human.
Niagara Gallery
Taylor's work is both formal and conceptual. The sculptures are elegant, the eye paces along the metal lines at a slow and steady rate. There is a rhythm to the work that is meditative and engaging. But the works are not purely visual. They are metaphors and analogies for daily life. Subtle variations and shifts in the patterning suggest organic expansion. His found object work, which often has a more figurative approach, give a definite order to the events of our life, no matter how chaotic it may seem.
