Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor was born in Banff, Scotland and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, graduating in Drawing and Painting. A year of post-graduate study led to a further award (Highly Commended).

He has held various senior posts in education, was a part-time Lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee and Assessor in Art & Design for the Scottish Qualifications Authority. For a number of years, Bill Taylor served on the Board of Directors, at Dundee Contemporary Arts. He is a Professional Member of The Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)

Bill Taylor’s work is essentially landscape-based/inspired and is influenced by the geometries which occur in nature. Both music and poetry are major factors in the development of his work.

“In producing work, I tend to select elements from the environment and reformulate them. The works are therefore an abstraction or a translation of these elements. My intention is to communicate a sense of space, movement and order”.

Exhibitions

  2024 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2024 Made in DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts
 2024 Print 24, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
 2023 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2023 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 2022 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2022 “Unmute”, SSA Curated Exhibition,Dunoon
 2022 Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld
 2022 Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
 2021 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 2021 Art UK PrintCollection, London
 2021 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2020 Tides Changing/Changing Tides, SSA Online Exhibition
 2020 Urban Departures, Projectroom2020, presented by ArtNorth
 2020 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2019 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2019 Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2019 Parallels, Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2018 Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2017 Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk
          (Curated by Norman Ackroyd RA)
 2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
 2017  Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2017 Meffan Gallery, Forfar (Purchase Prize)
 2017 Frames Gallery, Perth
 2016 Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI), Glasgow
 2016 Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts
 2016 Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2016 PrintRoomDundee, Dundee University
 2016 Festival Exhibition, EDS Gallery, Edinburgh
 2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
 2016 PrintRoomDundee, Cambo House, Fife
 2016 PrintFest, Dundee Contemporary Arts
 2015 Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts
 2015 Meffan Gallery, Forfar
 2014 Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld
 2007 Print Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts 
 2003 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2002 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2000 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 2000 Angus Open - Arbroath, Forfar
 1999 Gallery Forteviot, Forteviot, Perthshire
 1999 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1999 Gifted, SAC,The McManus, Dundee
 1998 Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee
 1996 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1994 Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee
 1992 Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee
 1991 Dundee 800, The McManus, Dundee
 1990 Works on Paper, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
 1988 The Silvery Tay, The McManus, Dundee
 1987 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1985 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1985 Through other Eyes, Crawford Centre, St Andrews
 1983 Scottish Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
 1983 Teamworks, Meadowplace Gallery, Dundee
 1983 DATA, McManus Galleries, Dundee (Curator)
 1981 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 1978 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1977 Dundee Young Artists, The McManus, Dundee
 1975 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
 1975 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
 1974 British Watercolour Today, Rochdale Art Gallery
 1973 Contemporary British Art, Rochdale Art Gallery
 1971 Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh

Awards & Commissions

 2017 Angus District Council Purchase Prize    
 1985 Scottish Arts Council/Paisley District Council
 1984 Scottish Arts Council Award
 1980 Scottish Arts Council Award (Printmaking Bursary)
 1971 Prizewinner, Scottish Young Contemporaries

Publications

 2020 Parallels, Exhibition Catalogue
 2012 The Public Catalogue Foundation
 2007 Open an Island, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics/Scottish Natural Heritage
 2006 Consider the Lilies, National Galleries of Scotland
 2005 Island Magazine
 2005 east/west, Artist’s Book

Collections

 The Scottish Arts Council
 The McManus, Dundee
 Angus District Council
 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Collection, Dundee
 Art UK
 National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
 Centre for Artists’ Books, Dundee University, Dundee
   
 Private Collections in Britain, France, Belgium and USA
    
    
    
    

 © Bill Taylor 2024