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

   2026 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    2026 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
    2025 Life with Water, SSA Members, An Tobar, Isle of Mull
    2025 Made in DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts
    2025 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    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
    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, Jamaica and USA