Sally Taylor

Sally Taylor has been nominated for the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize on five occasions. In 2014 she was a Prize-winner; ‘Highly Commended’ by the selectors. Recent group exhibitions include: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Space, London and UK tour (2017-18), State of Line, Artworks, Halifax (2017), Ink Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Miami, USA (2016), London Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, London (2017, 2016, 2015), Sketchbook Today, University of Northampton (2015), Beyond Perception, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (2015), To Draw is to be Human, Crescent Arts, Scarborough and UK tour (2016, 2015), Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, Jerwood Space, London and UK tour (2014-15), Derwent Art Prize 2014, Mall Galleries, London (2014), Paint Like You Mean It, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh (2014), Sketch 2013, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Wiltshire and UK tour (2013-14), Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, London at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). Solo exhibitions include: Some Spaces Left, Platform A, Middlesbrough (2017), That Head, That Head, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire (2016), Confused Heads, Duckett and Jeffreys, North Yorkshire (2013), All Say The Same, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire (2011), Marks and Mouths, PS2, MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2010-11). Work included in Drawing Paper #6, co-curated with Tate Liverpool to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial (2012), Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011, 2009, 2004, Viewing Programme, Drawing Center, New York. In 2015, she worked with The Tetley, Leeds to run workshops coinciding with the Jerwood Drawing exhibition tour. Most recently she was awarded ‘Grants for the Arts’ funding from Arts Council England to develop her practice working alongside key individuals at the forefront of contemporary drawing practice. This project concludes in December 2017.