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Michael Taylor, born in Johannesburg, is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town. Taylor produces works in painting, drawing, printmaking and ceramics.
Michael has a story, make that a few to tell and, through his work at WE, especially in the monotype technique, his characters and settings materialize in humourous acts, satirized scenarios, and of course, at the beach – a sucker for a ‘Tropitone’ sunset is Michael. To comparatively sketch it out, he arrives with a suitcase of stuff (well, not figuratively) and ready and open to the element of chance. Taylor has the illustrator in him, and that means the suitcase is tightly packed, and as he decides to unpack, so too does a composition. It helps that the nature of Michael’s work has much to do with editing/selecting and layering – in terms of making monotypes, he is able to think of the final image as a succession of colour planes, negative areas waiting to be filled and at least the possibilities of adding to or taking away from existing flat planes. He is a consummate professional in his sensibility and approach, well suited to collaboration in the print studio and, has developed from initial projects. Michael Taylor knows what will work and what will ‘fail’ due to his being comfortable with the medium as he says, “let the medium do what it wants to do.”
Text by Sara-Aimee Verity
In good company
2016
Colour woodcut on Torinoko White 235 gsm
Edition of 18
Paper dimensions: 128 x 98 cm
Impression dimensions: 102 x 82 cm
Price R38000 (excl. VAT)
Cabin fever
2013
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Unique Print
Paper & impression dimensions: 99 x 75,8 cm
Framed Price R48000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Bamboo
Lovers
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270 gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimensions: 53,6 x 37,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 28,8 x 22,2 cm
Framed Price R19000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash
Entering heaven
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270 gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimensions: 53,9 x 37,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 29 x 22,4 cm
Framed Price R19000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash
Michael Taylor
Penguin
2016
Monotype in watercolour on Zerkall Litho 270 gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimensions: 75,1 x 53,8 cm
Impression dimensions: 49,5 x 40 cm
Price R33000 (excl. VAT)
Michael Taylor
Pudding jungle
2016
Monotype in watercolour on Zerkall Litho 270 gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimensions: 53,8 x 37,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 28,8 x 22,3 cm
Framed Price R19000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash
Seasonalist
2013
Monotype in watercolour & crayon on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Unique Print
Paper & impression dimensions: 38 x 45 cm
Price R10000 (excl. VAT)
Michael Taylor
Birds of a feather #10
2011
Monotype in ink & indian ink-drawing on moleskine on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Framed Price R16000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Alaskan Cedar
Hooligan
2013
Monotype in watercolour & ink on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Unique Print
Paper & impression dimensions: 58 x 45 cm
Framed Price R26500 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Pink Beech
Float
2013
Monotype in watercolour & ink with crayon on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Unique Print
Paper & impression dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Price R25000 (excl. VAT)
Departure
2016
Frottage with graphite on moleskine book-pages papier collé on Zerkall Intaglio, 250 gsm
Unique
Paper & impression dimensions: 74,5 x 53,4 cm
Price R18000 (excl. VAT)
You’re mine
2011
Drawing on moleskine book-page and photocopy papier collé on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Unique
Paper & impression dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Framed Price R16000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Alaskan Cedar
Neighbour
2013
Lift-ground aquatint and soft-ground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 77 x 62,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 49 x 39,7 cm
Price R7500 (excl. VAT)
Agent
2013
Spit-bite, lift-ground aquatint and soft-ground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 77 x 62,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 49 x 39,7 cm
Price R7500 (excl. VAT)
Handyman
2013
Lift-ground aquatint, aquatint and soft-ground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 77 x 62,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 49 x 39,7 cm
Price R7500 (excl. VAT)
Long distance lover
2016
Multi-block colour woodcut on Zerkall Litho 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 76 x 55,3 cm
Impression dimensions: 40,5 x 39 cm
Price R7000 (excl. VAT)
Pea pod party
2016
Colour woodcut & linocut on Zerkall Litho 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimension:s 76 x 55,3 cm
Impression dimensions: 40,5 x 39 cm
Price R7000 (excl. VAT)
Drifter
2012
Soft-ground & hard-ground etching and aquatint on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 30
Paper dimensions: 38,5 x 31,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 19,4 x 17,3 cm
Price R3500 (excl. VAT)
Dreamer
2012
Soft-ground etching and aquatint on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 30
Paper dimensions: 38,5 x 31,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 19,5 x 19,7 cm
Price R3500 (excl. VAT)
Lake Stymphalis floating aviary
2008
Soft-ground etching, spit-bite and aquatint on Hahnemühle Copperplate Bright White 300gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 66,5 x 51,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 29 x 31,3 cm
Price R6760 (excl. VAT)
Michael Taylor
Insomniac Rendezvous
2009
Aquatint mezzotint with aquatint on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 53,5 x 43,5 cm
Impression dimensions: 39,3 x 29,2 cm
ONLY 1 LEFT
Price R6500 (excl. VAT)
Saturday night with his mother
Aquatint mezzotint with aquatint on Zerkall Intaglio 250 gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimensions: 39 x 29 cm
Impression dimensions: 20,5 x 14 cm
ONLY 1 LEFT
Framed Price R6940 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Beech
Michael Taylor
The Gifted
Picture book
Edition of 150
Screenprint on Enigma Ivory 160gsm and cover Enigma Ivory 350 gsm
Book dimensions when closed 15 x 12 cm
Price R400 (excl. VAT)