Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Camara Taylor

Installation View
Ajamu, Claire Heuchan, Nosheen, Raju Rage, Kareem Reid & Camara Taylor, After Dark 2018
Installation View, GoMA, Glasgow International 2018
Installation view
Ajamu, Claire Heuchan, Nosheen, Raju Rage, Kareem Reid & Camara Taylor, After Dark, 2018
Installation View, GoMA, Glasgow International 2018
three A 5 booklets with black text that reads ' A many voiced argument with life'
Celine Amendola, Saira Harvey, Annie Hazelwood, Katy, Ruthie Kennedy, Judith Leupi, Suds McKenna, Holly Muir, Isobel Neviazsky, Nastia Nikolskaya, Stephen Polatch, Alex Sarkisian, Martin Steuck, Camara Taylor, Lizzie Watts, A many-voiced argument with life, 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
hands hold open an A5 booklet with a double page spread of a black line drawing of a surreal cartoon figure
Celine Amendola, Saira Harvey, Annie Hazelwood, Katy, Ruthie Kennedy, Judith Leupi, Suds McKenna, Holly Muir, Isobel Neviazsky, Nastia Nikolskaya, Stephen Polatch, Alex Sarkisian, Martin Steuck, Camara Taylor, Lizzie Watts, A many-voiced argument with life, 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
hands hold open an A5 booklet, the right page shows a scan of a sketchbook page with black ink drawing of cartoon characters
Celine Amendola, Saira Harvey, Annie Hazelwood, Katy, Ruthie Kennedy, Judith Leupi, Suds McKenna, Holly Muir, Isobel Neviazsky, Nastia Nikolskaya, Stephen Polatch, Alex Sarkisian, Martin Steuck, Camara Taylor, Lizzie Watts, A many-voiced argument with life 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
hands hold open an A5 booklet, the left page shows a black background and a white and pink kitten figurine
Celine Amendola, Saira Harvey, Annie Hazelwood, Katy, Ruthie Kennedy, Judith Leupi, Suds McKenna, Holly Muir, Isobel Neviazsky, Nastia Nikolskaya, Stephen Polatch, Alex Sarkisian, Martin Steuck, Camara Taylor, Lizzie Watts, A many-voiced argument with life 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
a grey textured surface
Camara Taylor, Untitled (Redecomposition 2, 1871, 2021, 2022), 2023

Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Camara Taylor
A black and white still featuring water pouring in front of a textured rocky surface
Camara Taylor, Still from Borderline, directed by POOL Group, 1930, 2023

Rephotographed in 35mm by Camara Taylor
A lectern made from metal welded together stands in a white room.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
A close up of the top panel of a metal lectern, which has a small metal ring placed on it.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
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.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
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.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
A framed artwork featuring oil-like marks and a faded black and white photograph.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
A white room which features artworks presented on walls and metal sculptures around the room, including a large metal lectern.
Camara Taylor, [mouthfeel], 2024
Installation view, Tramway, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams

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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