Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Camara Taylor

a grey textured surface
A lectern made from metal welded together stands in a white room.
A close up of the top panel of a metal lectern, which has a small metal ring placed on it.
A metal sheet is on a white wall. From the bottom of the sheet is a pipe, which feeds into a clear box sitting on the group.
A close up of a dark sheet of metal, at the bottom is a trough that is gathering a liquid that runs down the sheet of metal.
A framed artwork featuring oil-like marks and a faded black and white photograph.
A white room which features artworks presented on walls and metal sculptures around the room, including a large metal lectern.

camara taylor is an artist and - - - based in Glasgow. They work with their various selves, collaborators and organisations to produce still and moving images, texts and public programmes. Recent projects include backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2022) ; a rant! a reel!, Cubitt Gallery, London (2021); holus-bolus, 17th Edinburgh Art Festival; IMG_5917 (2021), with Sulaïman Majali, commissioned by the Artists’ Moving Image Festival and suspiration! commissioned by The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, which was a recipient of a 2021 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award. Camara has undertaken residencies at organisations including Fonderie Darling (Montréal, 2023), Cove Park (Cove, 2021), Market Gallery (Glasgow, 2020) & National Theatre of Scotland (Glasgow, 2019). They have participated in programmes including Satellites (Collective Gallery, 2020-2022); Curatorial Directions (MAC Belfast, 2019) and Constellations (UP Projects/ FTHo, 2017-18). Camara was a Committee Member at Transmission Gallery from 2016 to 2018 and Programme Coordinator of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty series at The Glasgow School of Art from 2017 until 2021.

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