Artist profiles

Anita Taylor RWA

Price range (works on paper & canvas) £290 - £24,000.

Anita Taylor (b1961) studied at Mid-Cheshire College of Art (1980-81), Gloucestershire College of Art (1981-84) and the Royal College of Art (1985-87). She was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral (1987-88); Cheltenham Fellow in Painting (1988-89), and Artist-in-Residence at the National Art School Sydney & the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (2004).

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Solo exhibitions include: A mon seul desir: the tapestry paintings & drawings,
The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire (2009),
A mon seul desir: reveries & other series, NAS Galleries,
Sydney, Australia (2007); Seeing Something Else,
The Drawing Gallery, London (2004);

Playing The Muse, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry (1989);
Anita Taylor - paintings, Berkeley Square Gallery, London (1989);
An Artist’s Residency at Durham Cathedral,
DLI Museum and Art Gallery, Durham (1988).

Awards include: The Malvern Award for Drawing (1993); Hunting Art Prize for Drawing (1999); Major Award, Cheltenham Open Drawing (1999); Hunting Art Prize (2000).

Work is held in the collections of: The Victoria & Albert Museum; Royal West of England Academy; The Jerwood Foundation (on loan to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University); National Art School, Sydney, Australia; University of Gloucestershire; University of Sunderland; Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges; Leeds Education Authority and private collections in the UK, Europe & Australia.

She is a Professor of Fine Art and, and up to March 2009; Director of The Centre for Drawing, a University-wide Research Centre of the University of the Arts London. She was the founding Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, established in 1994. In April 2009, she becomes the Director of the National Art School in Sydney, Australia.