V&A/Vicky Donner is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Scott Taylor opening March 13th, 2009.

Scott Taylor continues to make paintings that don’t question the act of painting or art-making. Growing up in a remote town in Arizona, Scott was, in his own words, driven at a primitive level to make visual imagery. Being ‘isolated’, his primary experience of art was from books, and at 15 he memorized all the imagery from an introductory art history textbook. Scott spent the second half of his childhood and early adulthood in North Carolina, and Georgia where he unknowingly sought out Southern folk arts – musical and visual. He gained an appreciation for the practice of folk art as being expressive and agenda-less, and in particular adopted the folk artist’s relationship to audience. Although first making films and studying filmmaking in school, Taylor found the solitary, less narrative, practice of painting more suited to his own experience and reflective purposes. But like the director he expected to be, Scott uses the canvas to reveal common experiences and visual histories that together attempt to transcend theory and categories to make something more connected to the things that attract us all to art.