10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

Leda +
An exhibition by David Mac Laren
In the Foyer Gallery Until January 20, 2010
Variations on a theme in Chair Design
Leda IIJesterStrutOwner and artistic director of Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, David Mac Laren is also a world-renowned woodworker and furniture maker. David says, “I continue to explore structure to derive design for furniture that is, increasingly sculptural in appearance, being less constrained by functional and ergonomic considerations of domestic furniture, allowing the structure to dictate uninhibited forms, sometimes brutal, sometimes graceful, still reminiscent of furniture derivatives.”

The Leda chair began as a rough sketch in side view. Referring back to that sketch David played around with front views, but no matter how hard he tried to make it a functional chair, it lost its charm. Together with his graphic designer son Phil, they worked it through computer imaging, furthering the creation. And the design evolved and moved towards a clearer resolution and specification, resulting in its current elongated form. “I thought of the Windsor chair construction, and I felt Leda derived in some measure from classical chair making.”

David took Leda to Sweden for an international workshop and exhibition on public seating. “While in Sweden I became interested in the structure of chairs, particularly chairs where the seat is a structural member. I wondered if the seat could be reduced to a cylinder with all the elements emanating from that cylinder.”

With the original Leda in Sweden, (now currently in transit back to Bungendore), he decided to make Leda II to accompany the next two chairs in the series titled Jester and Strut.

All three chairs are now on exhibition in the Gallery’s Foyer Artspace.