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“CJ Taylor’s work occupies the intersection between time, history, memory and fictive realities. The images question the myth of photography as a static stage, allowing hyperreal fictions to play out their infinite possibilities.”Aesthetica Magazine

 

“CJ Taylor’s genre-defying video is cinematic in atmosphere, poetic in sentiment and painterly in palette,’’ ~ Whyalla Art Prize.

 

“Taylor is creating works that look at how history, time and place can be present all at once in any given moment.”- Jane Llewellyn, Adelaide Review.

 

“CJ Taylor’s photographs are provocative…whether the images are spiritual, conceptual or purely aesthetic seems to lie largely in the eye of the beholder. Ambiguous and beautiful, Taylor’s photographs are a celebration of beauty, imperfection, fragility and life.” – Lauren Tomczak, dB Magazine

CJ Taylor’s practice engages with the concept of elastic photography in the Age of Extinction, where time collapses into a gap opened up at the edge of photomedia and cinema.

The bushland where he lives on Peramangk country in southern Australia intimately shapes his practice. Experiences during Australian Black Summer of 2019/2020 and the climate crisis are of primary importance to his current work.

The works are potent snapshots of a future embedded in the past, grounded in science and the arts, in proof and in theory, in fact and in fiction all balanced precariously at the intersection of time, hyperreality and affect.

He was the stills photographer for the Yolngu peoples’ project ‘12 Canoes‘ and a contributor to ‘Still Our Country‘. His work won the inaugural Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize and the Whyalla Art Prize. He holds a PhD from the Australian National University.

Selected works can be purchased through, Hill Smith Art Consultancy, Adelaide, and Galleria Marcolini, Italy. For all other enquiries please get in touch directly using the form below.

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