SUE JANE TAYLOR
Born 1960, Dingwall, Scotland, UK
Education
1984-85 Konsthogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
1982-84 SladeSchool of Fine Art, UCL, London
1978-82 Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
Scolarships
1984-85 1 year Swedish Institute Scholarship
Awards
1995 British Council Travelling Fellowship, Australia
1987 Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award
1985 Print Award, Stirling Shipping Company
1982 ScottishRoyalAcademy Student Exhibition
Prizes
1992 Highland Open Exhibition
1986 Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking Today, Rank Zerox
Commissions
2006 - 2010 Beatrice Offshore Deepwater Wind Farm Pilot Scheme,
Caithness, Scotland, Talisman Energy UK
005 “Venus Blazing” James MacMillan, Deirdre Gribbin
Britten Symphonia, English Arts Council
2005 Installation of “I” (meditation on Iona) glass frieze, City
of Glasgow Concert Halls
1999 “Glencalvie Bhan” glass installation. Collaboration with
composer Dee Isaac and poet Aonghas MacNeacail,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
1997 “I” (Meditation on Iona) James MacMillan collaboration
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Arts Council and
Glasgow City Council
1992 John Brown/ UIE Shipyard, Clydebank
1990-91 Piper Alpha Memorial, Aberdeen
Community Public Art Commissions
2003 – 2006 Lead Artist, Telford’s Pulteneytown Regeneration
Initiative, Wick
2000 A’ Craobh (the tree) MillenniumForest for Scotland
Trust. Gaelic Alphabet spiral woodland walk, Borgie
Forest, NW Sutherland
1998 Crimond Primary School, Peterhead, funded by SCO
Mobil Oil
Residencies
2008 Landscape Artist Research Queenstown, Western
Tasmania – Gold and Copper Mines
1995/6 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
1993 St Fergus Gallery, Wick, Caithness, Highland Council
1992 Clydebank District Council
One Person Exhibitions
2010 Beatrice Works Preview Exhibition, Scottish
Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh
2009 Mineworks, TasmanianMuseum and ArtGallery
2005-9 Oilwork, Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Time
and TideMuseum, Great Yarmouth, Piers Art Centre
Orkney Isles, ShetlandMuseum, Lerwick.
2007 Beatrice Field – works in progress” DCA, Dundee
2001 “Piper Alpha Memorial Drawings”, Aberdeen Maritime
Museum
1998/2000 “From Highland Drove to the Australian Outback”, touring
exhibition, Scotland
1997/99 “From Highland Drove to the Australian Outback” British
Council, New EnglandMuseum and Gallery touring
exhibition, Australia
1995 “Kromer Hat” touring exhibition by Clydebank District
Council, SW Scotland
1992 Central Library, Clydebank
1990 Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden
1991 Aberdeen Maritime Museum,
Chapelle de la Mairie, Vesoul, France
1989-91 “Oil Worker Scotland”, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Touring exhibition
1985 Galleri Sassi, Stockholm, Sweden
1986 Sue Rankin Gallery, London
1987 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1988 Installation, BP Heliport, Aberdeen
Galleri Agueli, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibitions
2008- Scotland: A Changing Nation, Scottish National
Museum, Edinburgh
2007 Lyth Art Centre, Caithness, Scotland
Scottish Print Summer Show, Glasgow Print Studio,
2007 Gallery Artists, Colville Street Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
British Renewable Energy Conference, SECC Glasgow.
European Offshore Wind Conference Berlin.
2005/6 VASu exhibition, Timespan, Sutherland
1997/98 “Carmina Gadilica” touring exhibition,Highland
Morning Star publications, Edinburgh
1996 1746 Culloden 1996, Highland Printmakers touring show
1995/6 Beltane Spirit, Highland Council, touring show
1992 Highland Open, Highland Council, touring show
1990 Artists from Scottish Printmaking Workshops, touring
show, Scotland
1989 “Into the Highlands”, MacManus Galleries and Museum,
Dundee
“The Swedish Connection”, Flaxman Gallery, Stoke on
Trent University
“Three Scottish Artists”, Sandra Higgins Gallery, London.
1988 Borderline Printmakers, Dragon Gallery, BristolUniversity
theatre and WorcesterArtGallery
1986 Touring show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1985 Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
Welder Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany
Solna Kulturmamnd, Swedish Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden
Anthony Dawson’s Artists, Barbican, London
1984 New Contemporaries, London
Piers Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney Isles
10th International Triennial of Original Graphic
International Prints, Switzerland
1981 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Lecturer
1985 – 87 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
Visiting Lecturer
2009 UHI Shetland, BA Contemporary Textiles, Lerwick
2007 University of Edinburgh, Social Geography Department
2006 University of Aberdeen, Department of History
2002/4 Grafikskolan, Stockholm
1993 Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia
1993 Fine Art Department, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
1992 Grafikskolan, Stockholm
Konst Academie, Bergen, Norway
1989 Glasgow School of Art
Keele University
Media
2010 BBC Alba ‘An La’, A’ Chraobh 10th Anniversary. Gaelic Tree
Tree Alphabet Spiral Woodland Walk, BorgieForest,
Sutherland
2010 Beatrice Works, Strachan Video Productions
2008 Piper Alpha Legacy BBC Radio 4
2006 DVD production for “Oilwork” directed by Craig Anderson
2005 Radio café, BBC Radio Scotland arts programme
2000 Tasci Gaelic arts programme
1993 Kromer Hat, video production on John brown/ UIE residency
Commission, Clydebank
1990 Kaleidoscope Radio4
NB Arts programme, STV, Scotland
1991 Woman’s Hour, Radio 4
Piper Alpha Memorial Documentary, Grampian TV and BBC
Scotland
Private and Public Collections
UK City of Aberdeen Gallery and Museums
Clydebank District Council
City of Dundee Public Galleries
City of Edinburgh Council
Clackmannanshire Council Alloa
Highland Regional Council
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Lillie Art Gallery, Milnagavie
Isle of Uist Council
Talisman Enery UK
Arco Oil Company
Total Oil Company
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Medici Society
University College London
France City of Vesoul
Norway Statoil, Bergen
Sweden National Gallery, Stockholm
Government Arts Council
Solna Arts Society, Stockholm
Australia New England Museum and Art Gallery, NSW
D.A. M.A. (Slade UCL)
