Jackson Taylor - Emerging Fine artist, Painter.

b.2000 Figtree NSW, Australia,

Lives and Practices Art in the ACT.

Through faux-naive figurative paintings, I explore the shared everyday experiences that connect us. My work investigates the quiet, routine moments many of us live through; mundane routines, sharing meals, taking out the bins. My work seeks to transform representations of these everyday moments into opportunities for meditation on contemporary life and shared experience through connection and conversation.

My paintings are characterised by distorted proportions, bold colour choices and playful stylistic elements like stacked space, exaggerated eyes, and naive hands. Pockets of time are punctuated with long limbs and looming vistas to consider the notion of shared memory. These visual markers give each piece a unique character while maintaining a recognisable quality, inviting viewers to find familiar experiences across my work.

I am particularly interested in point-of-view perspective as a narrative device, experimenting with viewpoints that situate viewers directly within scenes. By precluding elements that might assert a certain viewpoint, I deploy ambiguity to make space for interpretation. This approach creates space for audience subjectivities to participate in generating a work’s meaning, calling on the viewer to assume the position of protagonist by inviting them to recognise their own lived experiences within the paintings. This approach allows viewers to bring their own perspective to each work, connecting artist, audience and experience through recognisable, relatable moments.

My paintings take interest in the notion of common experience both as a unifying site, but also as one that illuminates points of difference through these reimagined scenes. Through objects, characters and environments, the narratives within my paintings investigate how the idea of shared experience intersects with contemporary challenges. Everyone goes to the supermarket, but not everyone feels the same at the checkout; the ambiguity with which these scenes are constructed asks viewers to consider the dynamics that define the everyday.