ANDREW TAYLOROUTSIDE ; 11 : 24

ANDREW TAYLOROUTSIDE ; 11 : 24

ANDREW TAYLOROUTSIDE ; 11 : 24

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The Cat Street Gallery is proud to present a brand new show of works by celebrated Australian artist, Andrew Taylor. Returning to Hong Kong with his second solo show, Taylor brings this latest series of paintings, celebrating a new colour palette with his trademark floral motifs that act as moments frozen in time. In a world saturated with images and hyperventilating with speed, Taylor finds room to pause and reflect.

His engaging yet subtle canvasses present the viewer with a window into the artist’s vision - one where the natural world reigns supreme, and stands still, giving us a moment to reflect and dream. In a sense, each work is a metaphor for the modern condition - which seeks out equilibrium and calm amidst chaos and commerce.

Though the artist works in response to intensity of contemporary society, Taylor’s work is neither nihilistic nor pessimistic. Rather, the canvasses celebrate what is still wonderful and possible in the twenty-first century. These are artworks which are made all the more vibrant by their refusal to be swept up by an industrialized, digitized, commodified and globalised age.

A truly gifted colourist, Taylor’s compositions balance a figurative yet abstract line, often with an eastern sensibility in his cherry blossom imagery. Such sensibilities draw further still from the artists’ insistence that one should be able to seek solace in the natural world, and be joyful of it in the face of our rapidly moving world around us. Such expertly balanced, composed and coloured works are a delight to see, and as such Taylor continues to exhibit around the world to great acclaim.

DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD

Mandy d’Abo

Founder and Director The Cat Street Gallery

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Plate 1: Outside: 12:16Oil on acrylic15 x 21 cm 2013

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Plate 2: Outside: 12:19Oil on acrylic

15 x 21 cm 2013

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Plate 3: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 09:05Oil on board31 x 31 cm 2013

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Plate 4: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 10:16Oil on linen31 x 31 cm

2013

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Plate 5: Outside: 21:31Oil on board31 x 31 cm 2013

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Plate 6: Outside: 05:08Oil on board24 x 27 cm 2012

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Plate 7: Outside: 16:58Oil on board24 x 27 cm

2012

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Plate 8: Outside: 10:04Oil on linen35 x 35 cm 2013

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Plate 9: Outside: 10:19Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic60 x 100 cm 2010

Plate 10: Outside: 10:20Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic60 x 100 cm 2010

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Plate 11: Outside: 10:21Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic

60 x 100 cm 2010

Plate 12: Outside: 10:22Silkscreen and crushed metals on acrylic

60 x 100 cm 2010

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Plate 13: Outside: 08:30 (double sided)Indian ink and wax on tissue62 x 92 cm 2013

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Plate 14: Outside: Gustave 11:04Oil on linen61 x 61 cm

2013

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Plate 15: Outside: Orangerie 14:03Oil on linen61 x 61 cm 2013

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Plate 16: Outside: Twine 2:15Oil on linen61 x 61 cm 2013

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Plate 17: Outside: Nocturnis 02:03 Oil on linen66 x 46 cm

2013

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Plate 18: Outside: Nocturnis 05:56Oil on linen66 x 46 cm 2013

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Plate 19: OutsidesOil on linen92 x 92 cm

2013

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Plate 20: Outside: 16:10Oil on canvas92 x 92 cm 2013

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Plate 21: Outside: AlscaseOil on canvas

92 x 92 cm 2013

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Plate 22: Outside: Canestra di FruttaOil on canvas122 x 122 cm 2013

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Plate 23: Outside: MemphisOil on canvas122 x 122 cm

2013

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Plate 24: Outside: 01:13Oil on linen183 x 61 cm 2013

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Plate 25: Outside: Nocturnis 20:08Oil on linen183 x 61 cm 2013

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Plate 26: Outside: Canestra di Frutta 11:05Oil on linen183 x 213 cm 2013

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Born 1967, Melbourne, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Outside: 11;24, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2012 Outside: Periphery, Heather James Gallery, Palm Dessert Outside: From the Pephery, Tim Olsen, Sydney

2011 platform LA, part of the Pacific Standard Time, initiative Los Angeles Outside: Far Away, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York

2010 The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2008 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney NSW

2007 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney NSW

2005 Crossley Scott Gallery New paintings

2004 Crossley Scott Gallery New paintings

2002 Recent Work, MHA Projects Los Angeles

2000 Recent Paintings, Metropolis Gallery, St. Kilda

1996 Monotypes and works on paper, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy

1995 Recent Paintings, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy

1994 Monotypes, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy

1992 Recent Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond

1990 Diamonds are Forever, Botanical Gallery, South Yarra

1989 New Painting, Garry Anderson Galleries, Darlinghurst, NSW

1988 New Painting, at 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond

BIOGRAPHY

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Fresh, MOCA Los Angeles, CA USA Beauty and the Baroque, W Hotel commission Washington DC, Curated by Chip Tom Landscapes, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA

2008 Nature Morte Dead Nature, Rohrer Fine Art Laguna Beach, CA USA

2000 Dobel Drawing Prize, (finalist) at National Gallery of New South Wales

1999 Exposure (Artists portraits of Artists), at Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne and at Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda Works in Windows, The St. Kilda Festival Metropolis Opening Exhibition, at Metropolis Gallery, St. Kilda

1998 Works in Windows, The St. Kilda Festival Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda

1997 Artist for kids Cultural Trust Auction, at George Gallery, St. Kilda

1996 Love, Carlisle Lounge Motel, St. Kilda

1995 12th Biannual Spring Festival of Drawings (Invitation), Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington Christmas 1995 small works, Scope Gallery, Fitzroy

1994 Workshop Proofs, A Survey of prints from the Archives, Australian Print Workshop, Doncaster Gallery, Doncaster

1993 Monotypes from the Garner Toullis Workshop, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy

1991 The Sub, Ver’sive Stitch, Mori Gallery, Leichharat NSW Contemporary Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond

1990 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition The Dominique Segan Castlemaine Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival

1989 Art from Elsewhere, The University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Tasmania The Murdoch Fellowship, School Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne Australian Painting 1960 - 1989, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond

1988 The Dominique Segan Castlemaine Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival The Scotchman’s Hill Acquisition Art Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong St. Kilda Now, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda

1987 Graduate Show at School of Fine Art, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne

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PUBLISHED

The Age November 1988, “Simultaneously accessible and mysterious explicit and puzzling” (Gary Gatalaro)

Vogue Living October 1989 (Page 136)

New Art Three 1989, “Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art” (Neville Drury)

The Age August 17th 1990, Galleries (Jan Blendofs)

Moet & Chandon Turing Exhibition Catalogue 1991 (Francis Lindsay)

The Weekend Australian September 21st 1991, “Serious Funny Business” (Robert Rooney)

The Age September 30th 1992, “Unassuming pictures from an alcove at an imaginary exhibition” (Christopher Heathcote)

The Weekend Australian October 10th 1992, “Figuring out fun of the fair” Robert Rooney)

Workshop Proof Catalogue 1994 (Laurie Benson)

Exposure Catalogue 1999 (Anna Clabburn)

Melbourne Theatre Company Brilliant Lies, Front cover for Publicity Brochure

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Victoria Art Bank Shepparton Art gallery Telstra Collection Australian National University Private Collections in Australia, USA and France

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The Cat Street Gallery

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