Recreating art-school cool, 1980s style
remember visiting the art s hool in lasgow with my s hool around and being in thrall to the pla e the ambien e the beauti ul wood panelled library in The a building the orridors illed with opies o lassi al statues s or the students tal about the epitome o ool ll long bla oats ohl lined eyes geometri hairstyles and roll ups in hand
n raser Taylor was li ely one o the students gawped at ervently wishing ould play a part in their style revolution Taylor was an undergraduate student at S rom studying te tiles ore than our de ades later he des ribes these heady days when he made riends or li e as ama ing
ter leaving lasgow or ondon in Taylor set up design olle tive The loth with three S riends the late avid and elen anning and rian olger They wor ed or ashion labels su h as aul Smith and etty a son Taylor was also involved in the musi s ene designing re ord labels and imagery or bands su h as
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Taylor who returned to lasgow in a ter years spent living and wor ing in hi ago has been in re le tive mode in the build up to a display o wor inspired by his years at art s hool
nstant hip: The Te tiles and apers o raser Taylor evisited opened last wee end and runs until pril The e hibition whi h lights up the ground loor o S s The eid uilding is a ompanied by a new publi ation and a programme o events
Taylor tells me the e hibition has been in his head or years ever sin e he gi ted three large storage bo es ontaining wor rom his art s hool days to S in They ontained te t boo s samples and s et h boo s and had been in storage in ondon and d orgotten all about them
ow using digital te hnology to reimagine de ades old wor nstant hip on ures up the energy and post pun sensibility whi h gilded lasgow in the early s e there or be s uare
They are all respected painters with decades worth of experience and big individual fan bases, but until a few years ago, Rosemary Beaton, Alice Mcmurrough, Heather Nevay and Helen Wilson, all said they were intimidated by printmaking. Now, thanks to encouragement from their friend, master printmaker and painter June Carey, they have all embraced techniques like etching, monoprinting and screenprinting. You can check out the fabulous fruits of their labours at Fidra Fine Art in Gullane until 21 April