Katie Taylor

Education

• PhD Fine Art – Oxford Brookes University (current)
• MFA in Fine Arts – Oxford Brookes University
• Post Graduate Certificate Textiles – University for the Creative Arts
• BA(hons) Textiles 1st Class – University for the Creative Arts

Exhibitions

2023

Work selected for Afterlives – SDA’s Spring 2023 Selections Online Exhibition – May 2023

Unseen workers : the essential roles of microbes May 2023 – Oxford Town Hall

Dying alone and its afterlives in Contact-less socialities conference – exhibition and talk. The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Germany April 2023

Oxford Human Rights Festival – exhibition and talk. Oxford Brookes University March 2023

2022

1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, Haitian Sky Art Center, Qingdao, China. December, 2022

2021

Galerie Zône, Leiden Netherlands May 2021

2020

Selected for Vanishing at This Gallery online December 2020

Lie Down exhibited within a virtual exhibition space for the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide – Remembering Srebrenica exhibition July 2020

Lie Down exhibited at YMCA North Stafford as part of Srebrenica Memorial Week 2020 July 2020

2019

Nou Wave I The Old Biscuit Factory, London November 2019

Conflict and Identity Conference, Lincoln College Oxford, October 2019

‘Body of Work’ MFA show Brookes University, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford, June 2019 

‘a Meeting’ Independent open studio exhibition and conversation, Oxford, June 2019

‘Chromantics’ Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot April 2019

The Socio-Parasitology Manifesto The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts London  January 2019

DreaMFActory 18 Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University December 2018 – January 2019

2018

‘Our Place’ Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford November – December 2018

Srebrenica Memorial service at The Guildhall London July 2018

8372 Cards – Participatory art project for Srebrenica Memorial week exhibited in Oxford Town Hall. Funded with help from Oxford City Council 8th – 16th July 2018

‘Lie Down’ Exhibited at City of Oxford College May 2018

disPLACED P21 Gallery, London 20th January – 10th February 2018

2017

19th International textile exhibition SVÚ, Dostojevského rad 2, SK – 811 09 Bratislava, Slovakia May 31st – 25th June 2017

Latent The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London 13 – 14 January 2017

2016

Through An Artist’s Eye All Saints Church, Esher Kent 8 October – 29 October 2016

Dis-locate Exhibition with Magdalen Road Artist Studios Old VW Showroom, Iffley Road, Oxford 27 May – 5 June 2016

2015

17th International textile exhibition SVU Manes Diamond, Spalena 4, Prague Czech Republic 1-24 July 2015

17th International textile exhibition SVÚ, Dostojevského rad 2, SK – 811 09 Bratislava, Slovakia June 2015

2013

Oxford Spotlight Oxfords light festival Organised by OVADA held in Oxford Town Hall November 2013

Curatorial

Unprecedented an exhibition of work exploring resilience during the Covid Pandemic OVADA Gallery May 2021

Projects

Lead artist ‘Our Place’ – Crisis and The Old Fire Station, Oxford. November 2018
Lead Artist – Processions 2018 Banner Workshop OVADA April 2018

Commissions

Inert  – commissioned work for collaborative project ‘Through an artists eye‘ funded by Arts Council England, October 2016

Residencies

Cel Del Nord – Virtual Residency during the Coronavirus Pandemic March 2020

Publications

1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale catalogue ISBN: 978-7-112-28213-5
Work selected for Covid magazine December 2020
Cover artwork of Idles Divide and Conquer 7” single November 2017

Conferences / Talks

International Contemporary Material Art Symposium – China  May 2023

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development – Berlin Germany April 2023

Oxford Human Rights Festival – Oxford Brookes University March 2023

Friends of The Pitt Rivers Museum – October 2022

Death and Culture IV – York St Johns University – September 2022

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – School of Fashion and Textiles – March 2021

Bradford University Archaeology and Forensic Science Department Guest Lecture Series – March 2021

The Association of Death and Society Seminar Series – Using Art Practice to explore the acknowledgement of unidentified dead – February 2021

CAA Conference – Panelist for “BIODEGRADABLE ART: TOWARDS REGENERATIVE AND CIRCULAR SYSTEMS” February 2021

Lincoln College, Oxford Conflict and Identity Conference October 2019
York University – Symposium – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work June 2019
Guild of Embroiderers – Oxford Branch April 2018
OVADA Warehouse Art School 11th January 2018
CARU | Arts re Search Conference 2017 10th December 2017

Workshops

Build a wordpress website for artists OVADA 2017
Social Media Marketing for artists workshop OVADA 2017

Work

Director – art-sauce October 2022 – Present

Advertising Manager – Surface Design Association February 2021 – Present

Textiles Tutor – Open College of the Arts – June 2019 – Present

Programming Coordinator – OVADA March 2020 – April 2021
Outreach Arts Facilitator Rough Sleepers Hub – Crisis – July 2019 – April 2020
Part time Studio Manager – Magdalen Road Artist studios – August 2015 – July 2019
Lead Artist / Project co-ordinator ‘Our Place’ – Crisis and The Old Fire Station, April 2018 – January 2019
Art Class leader – Crisis – October 2018 – December 2018
Voluntary website support – OVADA 2014 – 2020
Trustee – OVADA – 2014 – March 2020
1 to 1 support for artist with ADD – 2017
Project Management of group exhibition ‘Dis locate’ January – June 2016
Project admin and commissioned artwork – Through An Artist’s Eye June 16 – October 16