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 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 and USA