Francesca Taylor is a Scottish sculptor and painter, living and working in Paris since the 80s. She studied sculpture in Doncaster, England, under a disciple of Henry Moore. The first artist to create collage-sculptures, the outstanding ‘dreaming skins’ of her collaged, life-size, mural sculptures, and then furthering her sculptural work through painting and collage-painting, her work is a deep exploration of the essential emotional movement of the body. She has challenged herself through medium, colour, form and genre taking away her own tools, finding new ones, and exploring what new possibilities and new worlds they allowed her to reveal. The celebratory and sensual nature of her work is fascinating, simultaneously weaving a lesson of flow and permanence.
“When I think about my process, I realise that a creative tangent I was in perhaps years ago, as a one-off, and that I didn’t understand, then, years later, has connected to my new work and was the birth-stone of a creative flow existing now.”
Born outside of Glasgow, Francesca grew up under the spell of the Highlands and the influence of her Norwegian ancestry, from her paternal grandmother. In a Scottish family of musicians and actors, she was surrounded by music and storytelling since her childhood. She moved to Paris and started to produce sculpture, which was soon exhibited internationally. She is currently working in Paris.