https://camarataylor.com camara taylor Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:43:47 +0000 https://camarataylor.com en https://camarataylor.com/Front-page Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:34:31 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/Front-page camara taylor <img width="1228" height="974" width_o="1228" height_o="974" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ca6e970236a8ae5f1d02d680e4b8906fe7bdc3d6f6e1c9e5e605b0b46c73f9f/pining-research-sketch--BBC-news-screenshot-and-details-from-found-notebook.jpg" data-mid="234232916" border="0" data-no-zoom alt="Digital scan. A black square with an image pasted in the top left. Across the square and image are scribbles and drawings in white pencil. The image is a screenshot from BBC News showing a lorry submerged in floodwaters. The onscreen captions read: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just so mad&hellip;it&rsquo;s annoying.&rdquo; " data-caption="Digital scan. A black square with an image pasted in the top left. Across the square and image are scribbles and drawings in white pencil. The image is a screenshot from BBC News showing a lorry submerged in floodwaters. The onscreen captions read: “I’m just so mad…it’s annoying.” " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ca6e970236a8ae5f1d02d680e4b8906fe7bdc3d6f6e1c9e5e605b0b46c73f9f/pining-research-sketch--BBC-news-screenshot-and-details-from-found-notebook.jpg" /> [ Digital scan. A black square with an image pasted in the top left. Across the square and image are scribbles and drawings in white pencil. The image is a screenshot from BBC News showing a lorry submerged in floodwaters. The onscreen captions read: “I’m just so mad…it’s annoying.”] A note on accessibilty: This website does not have Image Descriptions and only some images include alt text. I am working on developing the website to be more accessible including making image descriptions and alt text consistent across the site. This&nbsp; will be in place as soon as possible.&nbsp; In the meantime, a portfolio of a works with image descriptions and alt text can be accessed by clicking&nbsp; this link.&nbsp; I welcome any feedback in relation to this and all other practices to improve this site’s accessibilty.&nbsp; https://camarataylor.com/info Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:30:04 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/info camara taylor is an artist and - - - living in Glasgow. They tend to make still and moving images, texts, events and installations that act as moments of stasis in an enduring unravelling of— &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; …often encircling the accumulation and dissolution of image, language, and (black) presence; geographies; madness; movement; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; pressing against imperial structures in&nbsp; and&nbsp; outwith - Scotland. rooted in ambivalence, obliqueness, and— contact: camarataylorbushell[at]gmail[dot]com &nbsp; SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 [mouthfeel], Tramway, Glasgow, SCT 2022 backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT 2021 IMG_5917 w/ Sulaïman Majali,&nbsp;(RETREAT), GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW: PART 6, Artists’ Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland [online] 2021 a rant! a reel! Cubitt Gallery, London, ENG 2021 slow breath w/ Meera Shakti Osborne, NewBridge Project, Gateshead, ENG 2019 something vague and irrational, w/ Sulaïman Majali, (RETREAT), Celine Gallery, Glasgow, SCT 2018 Flutter, Artspace Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, ENG 2017 Flourish, The Gallow Gate, Glasgow, SCT 2015 Shft+Ctrl+Save, w/ Isaac Kariuki, Meta Gallery, MoCA, North Miami, US &nbsp; GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Soft Impressions Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard &amp; Camara Taylor, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, SCT 2022 When Bodies Whisper, Timespan, Helmsdale, SCT 2022 Körper Barrikaden, Teile2o46, Berlin, DE 2021 What happens to desire…, Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 2020 Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT 2019 as of yet, Many Studios, Glasgow, SCT 2018 queer times school prints, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT 2018 Road Maps, (Supported by Glasgow International 2018) CCA, Glasgow, SCT 2017 Things, cur. by withfc, 6 Dixon St, Glasgow, SCT 2016 Rum Retort, cur. Mother Tongue Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, SCT 2015 Shft+Ctrl+Save, Meta Gallery, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US &nbsp;&nbsp; SCREENINGS&nbsp; 2025&nbsp;CICLA 13th Edition,&nbsp;Cinemateca de Bogotá,&nbsp;Bogotá, CO 2025 Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, US2025&nbsp;Another World, Atlas Cinema, London, ENG 2025 Special: Views on Scotland, Videox 2025 27th Edition, Zurich, CH 2025 Shorts Block: Why does the air tremble?, Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, US 2025 nobody’s word, Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival 2025, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ENG 2025 Home as Sanctuary as Body in a State of Seige | Donald Rodney: Film Programme, Whitechapel Gallery, London, ENG 2024 both a dance and a preparation for a fall, Night Vision &amp; Black Cinema Project, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, ENG 2024 Looking | Camara Taylor, Scott Caruth, Mel Baggs, Serf, Leeds, ENG 2023 CINEMA DESPITE Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, SCT 2021 repeated apparitions, Horse Hospital, London, ENG 2021 suspiration, Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival 2021, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ENG 2018 Hieroglyphics of the Flesh, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas 2017 LUX &amp; Mother Tongue present AfroScots, various venues, SCT 2017 This can only be thought of a monologue within a dialogue, ECA, Edinburgh, SCT 2017 AfroScots, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada &nbsp; RESIDENCIES/PROGRAMMES 2024 FieldARTS 2024, Glasgow, SCT 2023 Résidence Darling Newhaven, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, CA 2023 Lola Olufemi Writers’ Salon, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, 2021/22 Satellites, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT 2021 Experimental Film &amp; Moving Image Residency, Cove Park, Cove, SCT 2020 Studio Projects Residency, Market Gallery, Glasgow, SCT 2019 Curatorial Directions, MAC Belfast, NIR 2019 Starter Residency, National Theatre of Scotland (supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation), Glasgow, SCT 2017/18 Constellations, UP Projects &amp; Flat Time House (FTHo), London, ENG 2017 MANY Studios, Glasgow, SCT 2015 Fresh Milk, Barbados &nbsp; TALKS/PANELS&nbsp; &nbsp; (SELECTED) &nbsp; 2024 RRS: In Conversation with Marlene Smith and Camara Taylor, Glasgow School of Art [online] 2024 Moving Images Within Precarious Structures - Ep 1, Women’s Library, Glasgow, SCT 2024 Artist Talk, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT 2022 ‘ranting and reeling in relation’, Significant Others: Maud Sulter in Relation, Glasgow Women’s Library, SCT &nbsp; 2021 ‘Artists’ in Conversation - What happens to desire…’, Edinburgh Art Festival [online] 2021 The Conch, South London Gallery, ENG [online] 2021 Miles Greenwood, SoFA Friday Event, The Glasgow School of Art, SCT 2019 where did we land, post-screening discussion w/ Rabz Lansiquot, SQIFF 2019, SCT 2018 Artists in the gig economy, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, SCT 2018 After Dark, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT 2018 Ground Zine Panel, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT 2018 Talk See Photography: Refusal and other essential strategies, CCA Glasgow, SCT 2016 Garth Gartrix and Transmission – Self Generated Activity and Artist Led Spaces, UK Young Artists Festival, Derby, ENG 2016 Lotic - Q&amp;A and Kitchen Table Discussion, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, SCT 2016 Fire the Canon, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow 2015 Contemporary Issues: Navigating Art and Social Practice, Barbados Community College, BB 2015 Operation Legacy: Approaching 50 Years Since Independence, Barbados Community College, BB &nbsp; TEACHING 2025 Visiting Lecturer, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT 2024/25 Academic Fine Art Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, SCT 2023 Visiting Artist, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT 2022 Visiting Artist, Northumbria University, Newcastle, ENG 2021/22 Academic Fine Art Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, SCT 2018 Visiting Fine Art Lecturer, Newcastle University, ENG 2015 Visiting Artist, Barbados Community College, Bridgetown, BB AWARDS/GRANTS 2025 Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2022 Elephant Trust Grant 2021 Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2021 Creative Scotland Sustaining Creative Development Grant 2020 Second Life Grant, Edwin Morgan Trust 2019 Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship 2017 Glasgow Visual Artist &amp; Maker Award &nbsp;&nbsp;AND &nbsp; 2016 -18&nbsp; &nbsp; Committee Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 2017 -21&nbsp; &nbsp; Programme Coordinator, Race, Rights &amp; Sovereignty Series, The Glasgow 2019 -20&nbsp; Film Programmer, CCA Glasgow 2021 -present&nbsp; Captioner and Project Facilitator, Collective Text -- https://camarataylor.com/works Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:29:42 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/works SELECTED WORKS <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d08efbd6c85723b03629d39454f3ef6612d03f375c8cccfd43f19056e179eec0/Untitled-familiar-document-and-Flight-2-cropped-web.jpg" data-mid="234268014" border="0" alt="Gallery view, a corner in Soft Impressions at DCA Dundee. On the left, Flight, a framed colour photograph hangs on a white gallery wall. On the right, square, frosted window panes stretch from the floor-to-ceiling softly diffusing the light." data-caption="Gallery view, a corner in Soft Impressions at DCA Dundee. On the left, Flight, a framed colour photograph hangs on a white gallery wall. On the right, square, frosted window panes stretch from the floor-to-ceiling softly diffusing the light." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d08efbd6c85723b03629d39454f3ef6612d03f375c8cccfd43f19056e179eec0/Untitled-familiar-document-and-Flight-2-cropped-web.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c1639cc0727a96ed089d4822cf1fa25ac644ac0cbfed9e268a94496139e0626/Flight-cropped-web.jpg" data-mid="234268015" border="0" alt="A colour photograph in a walnut frame hung against a white gallery wall. In the photograph someone hovers, or dangles in front of a staircase. Only their lower legs and four steps are visible. They are wearing red, plaid pajamas that cast a shadow against the beige-brown carpeted steps. Their feet are bare and hang loosely, their brown toes casting a crisp black shadow against the stairs. " data-caption="A colour photograph in a walnut frame hung against a white gallery wall. In the photograph someone hovers, or dangles in front of a staircase. Only their lower legs and four steps are visible. They are wearing red, plaid pajamas that cast a shadow against the beige-brown carpeted steps. Their feet are bare and hang loosely, their brown toes casting a crisp black shadow against the stairs. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c1639cc0727a96ed089d4822cf1fa25ac644ac0cbfed9e268a94496139e0626/Flight-cropped-web.jpg" /> Flight, 2013/2024 Giclée print, Walnut Frame, 85x60cm <img width="2078" height="1385" width_o="2078" height_o="1385" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23b97a5ff925aac830a6bda797d4d303ba8d5c05a029e169128116b5140126fe/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_010_web-4.jpg" data-mid="236227985" border="0" alt="installation view, Falls of Clyde. Mounted to a white gallery wall is a 2 by 2 meter steel sheet with a shallow trough at its bottom. Dark rum cascades down the dark grey steel and flows down a clear pipe which connects to a glass tank on the gallery&rsquo;s concrete floor. In the tank, a red pump pushes the rum out through a tube that runs along the right side of the metal sheet and skirts its top edge where the rum is released to begin the cycle again." data-caption="installation view, Falls of Clyde. Mounted to a white gallery wall is a 2 by 2 meter steel sheet with a shallow trough at its bottom. Dark rum cascades down the dark grey steel and flows down a clear pipe which connects to a glass tank on the gallery’s concrete floor. In the tank, a red pump pushes the rum out through a tube that runs along the right side of the metal sheet and skirts its top edge where the rum is released to begin the cycle again." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23b97a5ff925aac830a6bda797d4d303ba8d5c05a029e169128116b5140126fe/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_010_web-4.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1757" width_o="2500" height_o="1757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab72d836a4c7b07ae6ed78e911639c0deaab7b8a3230c30387210e7d927d9ce/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_017_web.jpg" data-mid="224544977" border="0" alt="A close-up of rum cascading down the metal sheet taken from a slight angle. The rum falls in evenly spaced streams, only the central streams are in focus. The sugary alcohol falls in patterns that resemble thick sticky tides that cling to the steel's surface. " data-caption="A close-up of rum cascading down the metal sheet taken from a slight angle. The rum falls in evenly spaced streams, only the central streams are in focus. The sugary alcohol falls in patterns that resemble thick sticky tides that cling to the steel's surface. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab72d836a4c7b07ae6ed78e911639c0deaab7b8a3230c30387210e7d927d9ce/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_017_web.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8979179eb1abb42a77508ec5f747208f528f1bd7eef1633a02797918c5cc7744/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_018_web.jpg" data-mid="224544979" border="0" alt=" A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Molasses brown rum that looks almost black fills the bottom third. Light foam ripples across the rum&rsquo;s surface as a pipe feeds more into the tank. A bright red water pump is partially submerged and connected to a hose that pushes the brown liquid back out. In areas the glass is foggy with condensation." data-caption=" A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Molasses brown rum that looks almost black fills the bottom third. Light foam ripples across the rum’s surface as a pipe feeds more into the tank. A bright red water pump is partially submerged and connected to a hose that pushes the brown liquid back out. In areas the glass is foggy with condensation." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8979179eb1abb42a77508ec5f747208f528f1bd7eef1633a02797918c5cc7744/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_018_web.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46f67e1013a6b25a11a6c3e0b902dae537c0711f268c99ecccc4a93d80042ea4/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_013_web.jpg" data-mid="234265278" border="0" alt="A close up of the tank through its fogged glass. Rum pours in creating whitish-yellow froth that ripples across the dark liquid." data-caption="A close up of the tank through its fogged glass. Rum pours in creating whitish-yellow froth that ripples across the dark liquid." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46f67e1013a6b25a11a6c3e0b902dae537c0711f268c99ecccc4a93d80042ea4/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_013_web.jpg" /> Untitled (Falls of Clyde, 1492, 1707- ), installation view, Tramway, Glasgow 2024 Uncoated mild steel, Clear PVC Pipe, Clear Hose, Dark Caribbean Rum,Dirty Water Pump, Glass Tank, dimensions variable.&nbsp; Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams Research &amp; Design by Camara Taylor and Sharif Elsabagh, Steel Fabrication by Ella Appleton, Gemma Moncrieff and the Slaghammers feminist welding collective Commissioned by Glasgow International with production and presentation support from Tramway. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" data-mid="224544970" border="0" alt="Close up of the steel sheet.The recirculating rum has created thick streaks of reddish-brown rust and thick sugary deposits on the steel&rsquo;s surface" data-caption="Close up of the steel sheet.The recirculating rum has created thick streaks of reddish-brown rust and thick sugary deposits on the steel’s surface" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" data-mid="224544968" border="0" alt="Close up of the trough at the bottom of the metal, with the pipe and hose also in view. Over time the rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel. " data-caption="Close up of the trough at the bottom of the metal, with the pipe and hose also in view. Over time the rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8f5ff9ca1c228eb107b2a8b56517235652a27fd7a62a9ed3df8caaf6f97d773/000044-1.jpg" data-mid="224544973" border="0" alt="An aerial view of the pipe feeding rum into the glass tank. The rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." data-caption="An aerial view of the pipe feeding rum into the glass tank. The rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8f5ff9ca1c228eb107b2a8b56517235652a27fd7a62a9ed3df8caaf6f97d773/000044-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/320e18d98c3a5b65fd55a771af68f72aeb66e34fb1c40e32a09c673b359b108e/000043.jpg" data-mid="224544972" border="0" alt="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Muddy orange-brown liquid fills the bottom third and moves through the pipes and hose connected to the tank. Layers of rusty sediment stain the tank's sides. " data-caption="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Muddy orange-brown liquid fills the bottom third and moves through the pipes and hose connected to the tank. Layers of rusty sediment stain the tank's sides. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/320e18d98c3a5b65fd55a771af68f72aeb66e34fb1c40e32a09c673b359b108e/000043.jpg" /> Documentation at 3 months.&nbsp; Photo: Camara Taylor In The Falls of Clyde (2024), Caribbean dark rum falls and recirculates across a&nbsp; steel sheet,&nbsp; transformed as the exhibition progresses by rust and sugar deposits . Rum is deployed here both as, a drink whose popularity in Glasgow in the 18th and 19th centuries stemmed from the boom in Caribbean sugar cultivated through the labour of enslaved people; and as spirit that holds important role in certain Caribbean death and life rituals.&nbsp;Through the work’s titling Taylor gestures towards the River Clyde as imperial waterway dredged and scoured to make way for trade ships and now marked by industrial decline.&nbsp; It also draws on the 1801 Turner painting, ‘The Falls of Clyde’ and the series of waterfalls at New Lanark it depicts. This ‘natural wonder’ provided power to the model mill-town founded by industrialists David Dale and Richard Arkwright, and this work extends Taylor’s engagement with Romantic painters ellision or depiction of the landscape’s transformed by the new infrastructures of the early industrial era. &nbsp; <img width="1440" height="2048" width_o="1440" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e098339f37c2b75abf3c90d96722105cd2bfbc71f894661ba20d5d836050e5b/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_024_web.jpg" data-mid="224565074" border="0" alt="Two steel lecterns cut diagonally across the gallery. Each one has a rectangular base, a pair of legs and a slanted book stand on the top with a shelf edge. In the foreground, a lectern is small and overturned, resting against the concrete floor with several documents placed on its stand. In the background, the lectern is a traditional height but has legs that bend inwards, like knees knocking together. Fixed high in the corner of the white gallery is a small speaker. " data-caption="Two steel lecterns cut diagonally across the gallery. Each one has a rectangular base, a pair of legs and a slanted book stand on the top with a shelf edge. In the foreground, a lectern is small and overturned, resting against the concrete floor with several documents placed on its stand. In the background, the lectern is a traditional height but has legs that bend inwards, like knees knocking together. Fixed high in the corner of the white gallery is a small speaker. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e098339f37c2b75abf3c90d96722105cd2bfbc71f894661ba20d5d836050e5b/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_024_web.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba53ee9c4d9806fb11adeea7d5956d30d22ab3246f199d864cc9a511668e131/000058-1.jpg" data-mid="224565079" border="0" alt="A steel lectern that is too small, as if it&rsquo;s been compressed. It&rsquo;s overturned lying on the concrete floor. You&rsquo;d need to crouch or lie down to read from it. The lectern holds two white paper documents and 2 photographs. Printed text is sparsely dispersed across the papers. A black and white 5inch by 7inch photo sits in front of the papers. A silhouetted hand stretching out beneath clouds. A very small postcard is stuck directly to the steel lectern with a torn post-it. suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign. " data-caption="A steel lectern that is too small, as if it’s been compressed. It’s overturned lying on the concrete floor. You’d need to crouch or lie down to read from it. The lectern holds two white paper documents and 2 photographs. Printed text is sparsely dispersed across the papers. A black and white 5inch by 7inch photo sits in front of the papers. A silhouetted hand stretching out beneath clouds. A very small postcard is stuck directly to the steel lectern with a torn post-it. suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba53ee9c4d9806fb11adeea7d5956d30d22ab3246f199d864cc9a511668e131/000058-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c507a4d004909f3d1e624fc1f2cd368c8baa08dec359c8acc96697de68d38bd/000064.jpg" data-mid="224565080" border="0" alt="A steel lectern with two tubular legs that bend inwards like knees knocking together, before flaring outward again connecting to the slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark grey steel except where the legs have been bent. This section is a shiny silver where the steel was sanded after cutting, bending and welding." data-caption="A steel lectern with two tubular legs that bend inwards like knees knocking together, before flaring outward again connecting to the slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark grey steel except where the legs have been bent. This section is a shiny silver where the steel was sanded after cutting, bending and welding." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c507a4d004909f3d1e624fc1f2cd368c8baa08dec359c8acc96697de68d38bd/000064.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f28bd508f56cd1f219dacbe4319bfb32e378942f89fa816deab908b720ff8ce6/000062-1.jpg" data-mid="224565076" border="0" alt="Close-up showing the top of a steel lectern. It has two tubular legs and a slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark dull grey, except the left leg which is a shiny silver. The left leg pierces through the stand. A thin ring of rust sits on the surface circling the tubular protrusion. Nestled around the inside of this leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the words &lsquo;witnesses against&rsquo; repeat. " data-caption="Close-up showing the top of a steel lectern. It has two tubular legs and a slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark dull grey, except the left leg which is a shiny silver. The left leg pierces through the stand. A thin ring of rust sits on the surface circling the tubular protrusion. Nestled around the inside of this leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the words ‘witnesses against’ repeat. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f28bd508f56cd1f219dacbe4319bfb32e378942f89fa816deab908b720ff8ce6/000062-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49a72c6de39889cdeab36cbaac3b8a09ca888906a3bd8036b12a0c8276d2757b/000061.jpg" data-mid="224565075" border="0" alt="Close up of a steel lectern. A tubular leg pierces the surface of the book stand. Nestled around the inside of the leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the visible words are &lsquo;swarms of false&rsquo;. " data-caption="Close up of a steel lectern. A tubular leg pierces the surface of the book stand. Nestled around the inside of the leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the visible words are ‘swarms of false’. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49a72c6de39889cdeab36cbaac3b8a09ca888906a3bd8036b12a0c8276d2757b/000061.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59420c8ef6eedc23d02ac249d7e45d233cc6550e6b8ba6bd5137f54745cc2d36/000050.jpg" data-mid="224755562" border="0" alt="A white walled gallery with floor to ceiling windows that look onto a car lined street. Standing on the concrete in front of the window is an absurdly tall steel lectern rising to over 1.5 meters. The lectern is dark grey with a slanted book stand which is held up by two tubular legs that descend in parallel lines to a rectangular base. The lectern is facing the window so we can&rsquo;t see what it holds. " data-caption="A white walled gallery with floor to ceiling windows that look onto a car lined street. Standing on the concrete in front of the window is an absurdly tall steel lectern rising to over 1.5 meters. The lectern is dark grey with a slanted book stand which is held up by two tubular legs that descend in parallel lines to a rectangular base. The lectern is facing the window so we can’t see what it holds. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59420c8ef6eedc23d02ac249d7e45d233cc6550e6b8ba6bd5137f54745cc2d36/000050.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c791c844ea5af43e837263716c8665683f1646e37cc4f3faaa2c1f4f084f3969/000052-1.jpg" data-mid="224755564" border="0" alt="Close up of a tall steel lectern. Two A4 documents arranged side by side on a slanted steel stand. On the left, a black and white scan of a photograph. Three black children are standing in the middle of the street lined with tenements and rubble. Inky smudges distort parts of the image. On the right, printed text attempts to describe the photograph. The page has handwritten annotations and redactions in thick black felt tip. " data-caption="Close up of a tall steel lectern. Two A4 documents arranged side by side on a slanted steel stand. On the left, a black and white scan of a photograph. Three black children are standing in the middle of the street lined with tenements and rubble. Inky smudges distort parts of the image. On the right, printed text attempts to describe the photograph. The page has handwritten annotations and redactions in thick black felt tip. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c791c844ea5af43e837263716c8665683f1646e37cc4f3faaa2c1f4f084f3969/000052-1.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e58bd2aa7ff36eae3722fc6905e501c6521f622f568e2956efc31764fa481ee0/IMG_9450-1.jpg" data-mid="236308246" border="0" alt="Close crop of scanned black and white photograph. Three black children stand in the middle of the street, behind them are large piles of rubble. Left child is standing stiffly and can only be seen from the mouth down. Middle child is the smallest and is holding a large satchel. Right child stands casually with a slight lean. Veiny metallic blotches distort parts of the photo, it appears as if the ink is eroding where the children stand. " data-caption="Close crop of scanned black and white photograph. Three black children stand in the middle of the street, behind them are large piles of rubble. Left child is standing stiffly and can only be seen from the mouth down. Middle child is the smallest and is holding a large satchel. Right child stands casually with a slight lean. Veiny metallic blotches distort parts of the photo, it appears as if the ink is eroding where the children stand. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e58bd2aa7ff36eae3722fc6905e501c6521f622f568e2956efc31764fa481ee0/IMG_9450-1.jpg" /> Untitled (falls, fools &amp; fails, 1820, 2024), installation view, Traway, Glasgow, 2024 Uncoated mild steel, inkjet prints, silver gelatin print, dimensions variable Lecturns fabricated by Marie, Amelia, Julianna Laird andEvangeline Baldwin of the Slaghammers feminist welding collectiveCommissioned by Glasgow International with production and presentation support from Tramway. Photo: Camara Taylor <img width="1134" height="1701" width_o="1134" height_o="1701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b25d51ffbe44840dae49d2068c4b88b401e66a9b6fcf900ce5e4d2dde0e2312/8f424b5a-5744-472b-84d7-d07a12ee021b.jpg" data-mid="234268048" border="0" data-scale="50" data-no-zoom alt="Sunlight casts a soft rectangular shadow on a white gallery wall. Hanging on the wall is a photographic diptych, &lsquo;axe laid root&rsquo;. On the right a black and white photograph of two people standing side-by-side. The image is tightly cropped,from their shoulders to their hips. They both grip the same object,one arm close to the other&rsquo;s but never touching. On the left is the same image flipped so that they mirror each other. Each print is covered by a sheet of multi-coloured glass. Opaque brown streaks across translucent iridescence, obscuring parts of the images. " data-caption="Sunlight casts a soft rectangular shadow on a white gallery wall. Hanging on the wall is a photographic diptych, ‘axe laid root’. On the right a black and white photograph of two people standing side-by-side. The image is tightly cropped,from their shoulders to their hips. They both grip the same object,one arm close to the other’s but never touching. On the left is the same image flipped so that they mirror each other. Each print is covered by a sheet of multi-coloured glass. Opaque brown streaks across translucent iridescence, obscuring parts of the images. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b25d51ffbe44840dae49d2068c4b88b401e66a9b6fcf900ce5e4d2dde0e2312/8f424b5a-5744-472b-84d7-d07a12ee021b.jpg" /><img width="803" height="1204" width_o="803" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5833a2b262f3fc3eebb0b3f10974dfc9e894614f2ccb46ed556be0a498a02000/cd78017e-323b-429b-951c-885c86dc3156.jpg" data-mid="234268108" border="0" data-scale="50" data-no-zoom alt="Close up of &lsquo;axe laid root&rsquo;. Iridescent glass with rich brown streaks shimmers on top of a blurred image of two arms almost touching. " data-caption="Close up of ‘axe laid root’. Iridescent glass with rich brown streaks shimmers on top of a blurred image of two arms almost touching. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/803/i/5833a2b262f3fc3eebb0b3f10974dfc9e894614f2ccb46ed556be0a498a02000/cd78017e-323b-429b-951c-885c86dc3156.jpg" /> axe laid root, diptych, 2024 Blackbrown iridescent glass, digital print, ink, 30x40cminstallation view, Soft Impressions, DCA Dundee, 2024 <img width="2024" height="1349" width_o="2024" height_o="1349" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fd2bf1812f050c3107e184191314232efe4169fb0271f8ff1cb4d1fd16a1bf6/240612_SI_DCA_25-1.jpg" data-mid="234268171" border="0" alt="Close up of &lsquo;axe laid root&rsquo;. Handwritten scrawls in white ink are visible on the back of the brown and iridescent glass. The text is reversed and so illegible. " data-caption="Close up of ‘axe laid root’. Handwritten scrawls in white ink are visible on the back of the brown and iridescent glass. The text is reversed and so illegible. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fd2bf1812f050c3107e184191314232efe4169fb0271f8ff1cb4d1fd16a1bf6/240612_SI_DCA_25-1.jpg" /> detail, axe laid root, 2024. <img width="5233" height="3489" width_o="5233" height_o="3489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd7de3ebfe67e90741fab52eb240c9337edd6884f6830aead7e1c41b98a976b6/Untitled-Pauls-Hand-and-Untitled-Melos-Fists-1.jpg" data-mid="234267665" border="0" alt="Two framed photographs, &lsquo;Paul&rsquo;s Hand&rsquo; and &lsquo;Melo&rsquo;s Fists&rsquo; are hung on a white gallery wall. Paul&rsquo;s Hand is to the right and hung high, Melo&rsquo;s Fists are to the left and hung low. Both frames are 81cm by 55cm." data-caption="Two framed photographs, ‘Paul’s Hand’ and ‘Melo’s Fists’ are hung on a white gallery wall. Paul’s Hand is to the right and hung high, Melo’s Fists are to the left and hung low. Both frames are 81cm by 55cm." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd7de3ebfe67e90741fab52eb240c9337edd6884f6830aead7e1c41b98a976b6/Untitled-Pauls-Hand-and-Untitled-Melos-Fists-1.jpg" /> installation view, Soft Impressions, DCA Dundee, 2024 Photo: Courtesy DCA Dundee <img width="2048" height="1436" width_o="2048" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17e935e77ba3bfe2604096546c573573115cb82f770c001de5f25a7f05a9d0a2/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_002_web.jpg" data-mid="234233059" border="0" alt="Installation view of &lsquo;Melo&rsquo;s Fists&rsquo;. A photograph framed in a thin oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass hung. The photograph is a screenshot from a documentary, rephotographed on 35mm film. A black man is outside at night wearing a thick grey winter jacket and a stripey purple scarf. His face is partially obscured, only viewed from below his mouth and nose. The focus is his fists, clenched and raised in front of his chest, his body angled in a defensive stance." data-caption="Installation view of ‘Melo’s Fists’. A photograph framed in a thin oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass hung. The photograph is a screenshot from a documentary, rephotographed on 35mm film. A black man is outside at night wearing a thick grey winter jacket and a stripey purple scarf. His face is partially obscured, only viewed from below his mouth and nose. The focus is his fists, clenched and raised in front of his chest, his body angled in a defensive stance." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17e935e77ba3bfe2604096546c573573115cb82f770c001de5f25a7f05a9d0a2/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_002_web.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aa76e87637202bff317fd9c85db6bff67facf373253c843a19e116169f036b1/P1020883-1.jpg" data-mid="224565083" border="0" alt="Close up of &lsquo;Melo&rsquo;s Fists&rsquo;. The brown streaky glass casts shimmering tones and speckled shadows across clenched fists. " data-caption="Close up of ‘Melo’s Fists’. The brown streaky glass casts shimmering tones and speckled shadows across clenched fists. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aa76e87637202bff317fd9c85db6bff67facf373253c843a19e116169f036b1/P1020883-1.jpg" /> Untitled (Melo’s fists, 2014),&nbsp; 2024Giclee Print, Coloured Glass, Blackened oak frame, 81x55cmCommissioned by Glasgow International 2024 Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams <img width="2048" height="1450" width_o="2048" height_o="1450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7704cd32b527e14c1955d5bfcf9d69fae0e53edfc7783d59d819ccc050396a6d/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_001_web.jpg" data-mid="224565286" border="0" alt="Installation view of &lsquo;Paul&rsquo;s Hand&rsquo;. A colour photograph framed in a thin blackened oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass. The browns appear as inky wisps, creating patterns that resemble curls of smoke. The frame is 81cm by 55cm in total but the image itself only takes up a fraction of this space and is set close to the centre left edge. It&rsquo;s an extreme closeup of Paul Robeson's face captured in stark black and white. His face is covered by his hand, palm facing us in a gesture of refusal that leaves only his ears and forehead exposed. " data-caption="Installation view of ‘Paul’s Hand’. A colour photograph framed in a thin blackened oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass. The browns appear as inky wisps, creating patterns that resemble curls of smoke. The frame is 81cm by 55cm in total but the image itself only takes up a fraction of this space and is set close to the centre left edge. It’s an extreme closeup of Paul Robeson's face captured in stark black and white. His face is covered by his hand, palm facing us in a gesture of refusal that leaves only his ears and forehead exposed. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7704cd32b527e14c1955d5bfcf9d69fae0e53edfc7783d59d819ccc050396a6d/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_001_web.jpg" /> Untitled (Paul’s Hands, 1930) Giclee Print, Coloured Glass, Blackened oak frame,&nbsp; 81x55cm, 2024Commissioned by Glasgow International 2024Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" data-mid="224565297" border="0" alt="A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The photograph is of gentle waves in the Caribbean sea. The frame is oak painted dark blue to match the sea. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. The submerged photograph seems partially pixelated or glitchy and has a metallic sheen. Dark blues are interrupted by glints of bright white, as the sea reflects the sunlight. " data-caption="A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The photograph is of gentle waves in the Caribbean sea. The frame is oak painted dark blue to match the sea. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. The submerged photograph seems partially pixelated or glitchy and has a metallic sheen. Dark blues are interrupted by glints of bright white, as the sea reflects the sunlight. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" data-mid="224565298" border="0" alt="The same work was photographed after 3 weeks. Over time the submerged photograph as transformed. Rum has eaten through and lifted the ink, revealing white paper. Some hues of black and grey remain fixed to the paper, whilst murky red ink swirls above and pools in corners." data-caption="The same work was photographed after 3 weeks. Over time the submerged photograph as transformed. Rum has eaten through and lifted the ink, revealing white paper. Some hues of black and grey remain fixed to the paper, whilst murky red ink swirls above and pools in corners." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" /> Untitled (blue re/decomposition 2015, 2022), installation view, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022 Submerged Kodak Metallic Print; Acrylic Tray; Hand Painted Oak Frame;Wray &amp; Nephews Rum, scottish water, 82x46cmcc: Brownes Beach, Barbados. Top: Photographed at 1 week Bottom: Photographed at 3 weeks. Photo: Tom Nolan <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57182f666f1ee828b5d019885ce0f12400f0ba2f6d338ad0effd256f1f7e379e/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---8.jpg" data-mid="224565287" border="0" alt="A large black and white photograph in a blackened oak frame is hung on a white gallery wall. The photograph is of a print that has been covered in dark mould creating an abstract and blotchy constellation. " data-caption="A large black and white photograph in a blackened oak frame is hung on a white gallery wall. The photograph is of a print that has been covered in dark mould creating an abstract and blotchy constellation. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57182f666f1ee828b5d019885ce0f12400f0ba2f6d338ad0effd256f1f7e379e/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---8.jpg" /> Untitled (re/decomposition 4, 1871, 2021, 2022)Silver Gelatin Print; Blackened Oak Frame,&nbsp; 116 x 80cm, 2022Photo: Tom Nolan cc: ‘Scottish Landscape’,1871, oil on canvas Robert S Duncanson;rum and whiskey; accumulated matter (mould), stilled after (duration) one year. <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45150f5e3b6dd613b8e992a4fe3dbe412536fa741361ebc5386e4dde2c94f860/whisper-33-final.jpg" data-mid="224565518" border="0" alt="Corner view of a gallery foyer. The right wall is white with a large opening that leads to a gallery exhibition. The left wall is a midnight blue and has a large picture window. Left of this window is witness, a large light box. It illuminates a digital collage. Bright pink text overlays Robert Duncanson&rsquo;s 1871 oil painting, &lsquo;A Scottish Landscape&rsquo;. The painting uses warm colours to depict a &lsquo;romantic wilderness&rsquo; with a river, rich vegetation and mountains in the distance. The pink text reads: &ldquo; there is not single witness has ever said that I said anything&rdquo;." data-caption="Corner view of a gallery foyer. The right wall is white with a large opening that leads to a gallery exhibition. The left wall is a midnight blue and has a large picture window. Left of this window is witness, a large light box. It illuminates a digital collage. Bright pink text overlays Robert Duncanson’s 1871 oil painting, ‘A Scottish Landscape’. The painting uses warm colours to depict a ‘romantic wilderness’ with a river, rich vegetation and mountains in the distance. The pink text reads: “ there is not single witness has ever said that I said anything”." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45150f5e3b6dd613b8e992a4fe3dbe412536fa741361ebc5386e4dde2c94f860/whisper-33-final.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2363" width_o="3543" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72de764fbc6d0f5ccacd00eaf873185f36f629e07c7eeb92154e0f449a9657e1/whisper-66-low-res.jpeg" data-mid="224565340" border="0" alt="witness, a large digital collage in a light box hangs on a midnight blue gallery wall. The work is in the far left corner of the wall where it meets a narrow white partition wall. Beyond the partition is a wall of wooden shelving full of books. Spotlit above the shelving, large vinyl text reads &ldquo;ARCHIVE&rdquo;. " data-caption="witness, a large digital collage in a light box hangs on a midnight blue gallery wall. The work is in the far left corner of the wall where it meets a narrow white partition wall. Beyond the partition is a wall of wooden shelving full of books. Spotlit above the shelving, large vinyl text reads “ARCHIVE”. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72de764fbc6d0f5ccacd00eaf873185f36f629e07c7eeb92154e0f449a9657e1/whisper-66-low-res.jpeg" />witnessDigital collage, Lightbox,&nbsp; 120x173cm, 2022 installation view, When Bodies Whisper,&nbsp;Timespan, Helmsdale, 2022 <img width="6517" height="4345" width_o="6517" height_o="4345" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/712b28516e7b5d49529acdf0e8dd00468d5b999733ef532f18105582c33a71cb/LanguidAug2021-9.jpg" data-mid="224565537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/712b28516e7b5d49529acdf0e8dd00468d5b999733ef532f18105582c33a71cb/LanguidAug2021-9.jpg" /> <img width="5550" height="3700" width_o="5550" height_o="3700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4be9eaff72ee03cd9eb8d2b77f417f5f3dc0f5b906557e950acc12d092dc8dc/LanguidAug2021-21.jpg" data-mid="224565543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4be9eaff72ee03cd9eb8d2b77f417f5f3dc0f5b906557e950acc12d092dc8dc/LanguidAug2021-21.jpg" />Untitled (green gene, 1785, 2001, 2021), installation view, Cubitt Gallery, London, 2021 vinyl, mdf, rope, 300x150cm Photo: Vanessa Peterson cc: Source 1: Barbados, 2001, Family Album no. 5 Source 2. Group portrait of Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet(1745-1786), his wife Elizabeth (d. 1821), and four of their six children; Sir Simon Richard Brissett, 2nd Bt. (1783-1815), Anna Susanna (1781-1853), Elizabeth (b. 1782) and Maria (1784-1829); also his elder brother the wealthy Jamaica sugar planter Simon Taylor (1740-1813) (seated). (pencil, pastel and bodycolour, 104 x 81.4 cm).Wiki Commons/Public Domain. <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c4b05ae317b6a14df6ef4bc903d2fd9ce6962adce9917e87b716412eccd1e02/LanguidAug2021-29.jpg" data-mid="236307848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c4b05ae317b6a14df6ef4bc903d2fd9ce6962adce9917e87b716412eccd1e02/LanguidAug2021-29.jpg" /> a rant! a reel!, installation view, Cubitt Gallery, London, 2021 <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbb97631499a61cd6b441a867745c43829cbaf582bcb3979f9c02454b2b1d611/LanguidAug2021-3.jpg" data-mid="236308094" border="0" alt="A carousel slide projector sits on a dark green plinth. The plinth is pushed against a white gallery wall; there is a wooden stool beside it. In the background, further along the wall close to the corner, a blue book is pinned to the gallery wall. " data-caption="A carousel slide projector sits on a dark green plinth. The plinth is pushed against a white gallery wall; there is a wooden stool beside it. In the background, further along the wall close to the corner, a blue book is pinned to the gallery wall. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbb97631499a61cd6b441a867745c43829cbaf582bcb3979f9c02454b2b1d611/LanguidAug2021-3.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2048" width_o="3088" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/668112dbfb9dd6d6f3b6c640421c5e399cc6d96281179b141f182dadeef6bc6e/000048950004.jpg" data-mid="236308141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/668112dbfb9dd6d6f3b6c640421c5e399cc6d96281179b141f182dadeef6bc6e/000048950004.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2048" width_o="3088" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55411989ee19c9a840eb1f3e40189e854dc99ecd2d6e93d25d2403a6c8c24709/000048950034.jpg" data-mid="236308126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55411989ee19c9a840eb1f3e40189e854dc99ecd2d6e93d25d2403a6c8c24709/000048950034.jpg" /> <img width="3021" height="2004" width_o="3021" height_o="2004" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d37c6df974f51518b7d9d6a44267e5c0b88adb8cd78fa9f554b7357a54e599c/000048950037b.jpg" data-mid="236308127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d37c6df974f51518b7d9d6a44267e5c0b88adb8cd78fa9f554b7357a54e599c/000048950037b.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2048" width_o="3088" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53665441157f11acf47480faff270449300ba80a9487909b76c8a7f22209220f/000048960007.jpg" data-mid="236308128" border="0" alt="A digital collage rephotographed on slide film. The collage superimposes a small colour photograph centre left onto a larger 19th postcard. The colour photograph shows three old black people standing on a terrace in Barbados with their backs to the camera. They are all facing in the same direction searching for something in the distance. The postcard is a sepia-toned photograph of the Atlantic Ocean viewed from a beach. The ocean shines, waves lap the shore and two ships with large sails travel along the horizon." data-caption="A digital collage rephotographed on slide film. The collage superimposes a small colour photograph centre left onto a larger 19th postcard. The colour photograph shows three old black people standing on a terrace in Barbados with their backs to the camera. They are all facing in the same direction searching for something in the distance. The postcard is a sepia-toned photograph of the Atlantic Ocean viewed from a beach. The ocean shines, waves lap the shore and two ships with large sails travel along the horizon." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53665441157f11acf47480faff270449300ba80a9487909b76c8a7f22209220f/000048960007.jpg" /> <img width="2877" height="1918" width_o="2877" height_o="1918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9915d541ef05c057fc72be8d695bd973b8300946ac6f7fd1c5fcc4025deff887/000048960009-copy.jpg" data-mid="236308129" border="0" alt="A photographic document of one page of a book in which much of the text has been redacted using blue rectangles. The remaining fragmented text reads: Climate/ a cold// country/ a cold place - so it is, colder than// anything you have felt. / ice, everybody shivering though// protected/ Are you prepared for this type of cold climate/ ?/ different. Life/ I have to remind you, is very// complicated./ here you must be prepared// Hve you a home/" data-caption="A photographic document of one page of a book in which much of the text has been redacted using blue rectangles. The remaining fragmented text reads: Climate/ a cold// country/ a cold place - so it is, colder than// anything you have felt. / ice, everybody shivering though// protected/ Are you prepared for this type of cold climate/ ?/ different. Life/ I have to remind you, is very// complicated./ here you must be prepared// Hve you a home/" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9915d541ef05c057fc72be8d695bd973b8300946ac6f7fd1c5fcc4025deff887/000048960009-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3088" height="2048" width_o="3088" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4aba2a087f22474ddfa998701d4856ca49773d95aa7ad24dbbfa8964fbbde61b/000048950006.jpg" data-mid="236308139" border="0" alt="Black and white photograph. Suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign. " data-caption="Black and white photograph. Suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4aba2a087f22474ddfa998701d4856ca49773d95aa7ad24dbbfa8964fbbde61b/000048950006.jpg" /> <img width="2875" height="1998" width_o="2875" height_o="1998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29532ce9d4cbe85ec6fad4fa7a882f7b33cea9a0b6eede56f7355264e105f0df/cropped.jpeg" data-mid="236308146" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29532ce9d4cbe85ec6fad4fa7a882f7b33cea9a0b6eede56f7355264e105f0df/cropped.jpeg" /> blak reel, 2021, 45 E6 Slides presented on a carousel projector.&nbsp; <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f059bd59b633e56acd8b0d123c579aaf7da118fe2bd7a0294e3e2db6a71f2d7/LanguidAug2021-11.jpg" data-mid="236308182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f059bd59b633e56acd8b0d123c579aaf7da118fe2bd7a0294e3e2db6a71f2d7/LanguidAug2021-11.jpg" />interest document,&nbsp;ink on paper, 21 x 29cm, 2019-21; lost class, transfer print, 15 x 21cm, 2021 <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04174c8fc222e3f9c1b682a6f00ae481d67ad87af1279add03108a7dfe681590/LanguidAug2021-30.jpg" data-mid="236308202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04174c8fc222e3f9c1b682a6f00ae481d67ad87af1279add03108a7dfe681590/LanguidAug2021-30.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b77a553670cfc15db1d803022517ac81e4e5774a930eca11f615f63329807a8/LanguidAug2021-16.JPEG" data-mid="224565629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b77a553670cfc15db1d803022517ac81e4e5774a930eca11f615f63329807a8/LanguidAug2021-16.JPEG" /> Untitled (re/de/composition 2), 125 x 74cm, 2021- Robert S. Duncanson, Dog’s Head of Scotland (1870, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) reproduction on Fine Art Museum Archival Paper, acrylic tray, handframed in oak and submerged in rum, whiskey and water. Duration - 3 weeks <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f30783c3c3063cd2bbc4d6e398ca15d9521a41b50e6bdbd59a1925633d75817/PHOTO-2021-08-20-17-00-38.jpg" data-mid="234233442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f30783c3c3063cd2bbc4d6e398ca15d9521a41b50e6bdbd59a1925633d75817/PHOTO-2021-08-20-17-00-38.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e1c87eae5ee6475ca637d739f8c29abf4533999bfb83215fd427303bac42240/PHOTO-2021-08-20-17-00-37.jpg" data-mid="234233443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e1c87eae5ee6475ca637d739f8c29abf4533999bfb83215fd427303bac42240/PHOTO-2021-08-20-17-00-37.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3333" width_o="2500" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c00bb15e8493e71c6d3031b08d14e032def23e9cec33d46c1ed8893a7da36520/IMG_7776.jpeg" data-mid="224567211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c00bb15e8493e71c6d3031b08d14e032def23e9cec33d46c1ed8893a7da36520/IMG_7776.jpeg" /> installation details, Untitled (re/de/compositions 1 - 4), 2021-Duration - 4 weeks <img width="567" height="378" width_o="567" height_o="378" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df829be24710fbd00d3f1719b21e85cc97156df47e337df9c9daa9370c15f721/MAW_0038-copy.JPG" data-mid="234264578" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/567/i/df829be24710fbd00d3f1719b21e85cc97156df47e337df9c9daa9370c15f721/MAW_0038-copy.JPG" /> <img width="1864" height="1210" width_o="1864" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fbe66d068cf5af308cfa67bf968df19a26438907c1a9c63d9f5802da577ae1f/MAW_0089-copy.JPG" data-mid="234264580" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fbe66d068cf5af308cfa67bf968df19a26438907c1a9c63d9f5802da577ae1f/MAW_0089-copy.JPG" />Untitled (re/de/composition 3), 125 x 74cm, 2021-Robert S. Duncanson, Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine (1871, oil on canvas, Detroit Insitute of Arts.) reproduction on Fine Art Museum Archival Paper, handframed in oak and submerged in rum, whiskey and water. Duration - 8 months <img width="1413" height="943" width_o="1413" height_o="943" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7053b9c0200dabc75dc8ddf9f9c71efad4e340fc117a53574a91c31320e6a8d9/LanguidAug2021-8c.png" data-mid="224565628" border="0" alt="A polished brass zippo lighter affixed to white card. Engraved cursive writing reads: &lsquo;Noodles who rave for abolition&rsquo; " data-caption="A polished brass zippo lighter affixed to white card. Engraved cursive writing reads: ‘Noodles who rave for abolition’ " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7053b9c0200dabc75dc8ddf9f9c71efad4e340fc117a53574a91c31320e6a8d9/LanguidAug2021-8c.png" /> noodles who rave for abolition, Engraved polished brass zippo lighter, 2020, edition of 2 <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31ceb9f2b06fd0798600ae27fe0a00c2d515f970076ac81407de2b399730f098/empire-of-love-domestic-bliss-install.jpeg" data-mid="224567372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31ceb9f2b06fd0798600ae27fe0a00c2d515f970076ac81407de2b399730f098/empire-of-love-domestic-bliss-install.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b063b68a972b16eee90b0f492a44604eab4d59721ab7425d067f6f46f9b7edc/Camara-Taylor-Image-4.jpeg" data-mid="224567373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b063b68a972b16eee90b0f492a44604eab4d59721ab7425d067f6f46f9b7edc/Camara-Taylor-Image-4.jpeg" /> installation view, Empire of Love, GoMA, Glasgow, 2020six engraved polished brass Zippo lighters, edition of 2Commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow for the exhibition Domestic Bliss.Photo: Katie Bruce and Glasgow Museums The lighters are engraved with text retrieved and reworked from James Boswell’s 1791 poem, ‘No Abolition of Empire, or the Universal Empire of Love’ in which he mocks his abolitionist contemporaries and calls for the continuation of Transatlantic Slavery.An edition of the work entered the Glasgow Museums Collection via support from the National Acquisitions Fund. <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0e0a4b4713d97afea308c1713163baff20463d323695c29fa15d4ac2c340a86/Untitled-familiar-document-3.jpg" data-mid="226602403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0e0a4b4713d97afea308c1713163baff20463d323695c29fa15d4ac2c340a86/Untitled-familiar-document-3.jpg" /> <img width="5712" height="3807" width_o="5712" height_o="3807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d420ee13283c90553dbcdb32d1f45db749e2dc720021ae803babbfcacab2acb2/Untitled-familiar-document-2.jpg" data-mid="226602402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d420ee13283c90553dbcdb32d1f45db749e2dc720021ae803babbfcacab2acb2/Untitled-familiar-document-2.jpg" /> Untitled (familiar document) Inkjet Print, Gramophone needles, MDF, Walnut, 2014, 2025Photo: Courtesy DCA Dundee <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b422d79b306328fc70c057c45fbd4c9104b995454ceb0e08ae7847bc266e467/IMG_8561.jpg" data-mid="224567379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b422d79b306328fc70c057c45fbd4c9104b995454ceb0e08ae7847bc266e467/IMG_8561.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01ef1fa5c4ab8b0ebd10c34b2904a0f42050bc1a27310bd1261693b52862b3d1/IMG_8587.jpg" data-mid="224567429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01ef1fa5c4ab8b0ebd10c34b2904a0f42050bc1a27310bd1261693b52862b3d1/IMG_8587.jpg" /> screaming by citation; lol ur so drama, 2019 installation view, as part of something vague and irrational, with&nbsp;Sulaïman Majali as&nbsp;RETREAT,&nbsp;Celine Gallery, 20192 channel video installation; a precarious hanging; black cling; black post-it; text; Auld Lang Syne by The Black on White Affair;&nbsp; A Scottish Landscape by Robert S.Duncanson 1871; African and Caribbeans in Scotland: A socio-geographical study by June Evans 1997; William Davidson and rumours of quartering and quicklime. dimensions variable Photo:&nbsp;Sulaïman Majali <img width="1706" height="962" width_o="1706" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10db0562127e6cf8afcf7fc201aaa770be7fe32ba902ced1d18f737bc67c8d7e/william-davidson-research-sketch.png" data-mid="236308472" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10db0562127e6cf8afcf7fc201aaa770be7fe32ba902ced1d18f737bc67c8d7e/william-davidson-research-sketch.png" /><img width="1841" height="2463" width_o="1841" height_o="2463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9c2775e5c28f9ca2c5c28658f8e0b799a0cc7c11117f4d40171c9e4dc476303/holus-bolus-research-sketch-1.jpg" data-mid="236308473" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9c2775e5c28f9ca2c5c28658f8e0b799a0cc7c11117f4d40171c9e4dc476303/holus-bolus-research-sketch-1.jpg" /> davidson sketch 1 &amp; 2, digital collage, 2019 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f19a3858be18ef22892d3602169062db954470d8868dca750f7755a386d106c/Gallow-Gate5B.jpg" data-mid="224567651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f19a3858be18ef22892d3602169062db954470d8868dca750f7755a386d106c/Gallow-Gate5B.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21db32256efafadb99c48fa7d63c354a03eaa13e025b1d803e3955fe775bec35/Gallow-Gate2.jpg" data-mid="224567656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21db32256efafadb99c48fa7d63c354a03eaa13e025b1d803e3955fe775bec35/Gallow-Gate2.jpg" /> limbo blues, 2017,&nbsp;water damaged chroma key blue photographic background paper, vinyl print, dimensions variable Photo: Ruth Mitchell https://camarataylor.com/describedworks Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:43:47 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/describedworks Selected Works by camara taylor with Image Descriptions Flight, 2013/2024Giclée print, Walnut Frame, 85x60cm <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d08efbd6c85723b03629d39454f3ef6612d03f375c8cccfd43f19056e179eec0/Untitled-familiar-document-and-Flight-2-cropped-web.jpg" data-mid="238858874" border="0" alt="Gallery view, a corner in Soft Impressions at DCA Dundee. On the left, Flight, a framed colour photograph hangs on a white gallery wall. On the right, square, frosted window panes stretch from the floor-to-ceiling softly diffusing the light." data-caption="Gallery view, a corner in Soft Impressions at DCA Dundee. On the left, Flight, a framed colour photograph hangs on a white gallery wall. On the right, square, frosted window panes stretch from the floor-to-ceiling softly diffusing the light." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d08efbd6c85723b03629d39454f3ef6612d03f375c8cccfd43f19056e179eec0/Untitled-familiar-document-and-Flight-2-cropped-web.jpg" /> [ Gallery view, a corner in the exhibition&nbsp;Soft Impressions at DCA Dundee. On the left, Flight, a framed colour photograph hangs on a white gallery wall. On the right, square, frosted window panes stretch from the floor-to-ceiling softly diffusing the light.] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c1639cc0727a96ed089d4822cf1fa25ac644ac0cbfed9e268a94496139e0626/Flight-cropped-web.jpg" data-mid="238858875" border="0" alt="A colour photograph in a walnut frame hung against a white gallery wall. In the photograph someone hovers, or dangles in front of a staircase. Only their lower legs and four steps are visible. They are wearing red, plaid pajamas that cast a shadow against the beige-brown carpeted steps. Their feet are bare and hang loosely, their brown toes casting a crisp black shadow against the stairs. " data-caption="A colour photograph in a walnut frame hung against a white gallery wall. In the photograph someone hovers, or dangles in front of a staircase. Only their lower legs and four steps are visible. They are wearing red, plaid pajamas that cast a shadow against the beige-brown carpeted steps. Their feet are bare and hang loosely, their brown toes casting a crisp black shadow against the stairs. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c1639cc0727a96ed089d4822cf1fa25ac644ac0cbfed9e268a94496139e0626/Flight-cropped-web.jpg" /> [ A colour photograph in a walnut frame hung against a white gallery wall. In the photograph someone hovers, or dangles in front of a staircase. Only their lower legs and four steps are visible. They are wearing red, plaid pajamas that cast a shadow against the beige-brown carpeted steps. Their feet are bare and hang loosely, their brown toes casting a crisp black shadow against the stairs. ] Untitled (Falls of Clyde, 1492, 1707- ), 2024 Uncoated mild steel, Clear PVC Pipe, Clear Hose, Dark Caribbean Rum, Dirty Water Pump, Glass Tank, dimensions variable Research &amp; Design by Camara Taylor and Sharif Elsabagh, Steel Fabrication by Ella Appleton, Gemma Moncrieff and the Slaghammers feminist welding collective Commissioned by Glasgow International with production and presentation support from Tramway.In Untitled (Falls of Clyde, 1492, 1707-),&nbsp; Caribbean dark rum falls and recirculates across a&nbsp; steel sheet,&nbsp; transformed as the exhibition progresses by rust and sugar deposits . Rum is deployed here both as, a drink whose popularity in Glasgow in the 18th and 19th centuries stemmed from the boom in Caribbean sugar cultivated through the labour of enslaved people; and as spirit that holds important role in certain Caribbean death and life rituals. Through the work’s titling Taylor gestures towards the River Clyde as imperial waterway dredged and scoured to make way for trade ships and now marked by industrial decline.&nbsp; It also draws on the 1801 Turner painting, ‘The Falls of Clyde’ and the series of waterfalls at New Lanark it depicts. This ‘natural wonder’ provided power to the model mill-town founded by industrialists David Dale and Richard Arkwright, and this work extends Taylor’s engagement with Romantic painters ellision or depiction of the landscape’s transformed by the new infrastructures of the early industrial era. Below is documentation of the work presented as part of the solo exhibition, [mouthfeel], at Tramway in Glasgow, 2024. <img width="2078" height="1385" width_o="2078" height_o="1385" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23b97a5ff925aac830a6bda797d4d303ba8d5c05a029e169128116b5140126fe/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_010_web-4.jpg" data-mid="238858885" border="0" alt="Mounted to a white gallery wall is a 2 by 2 meter steel sheet with a shallow trough at its bottom. Dark rum cascades down the dark grey steel and flows down a clear pipe which connects to a glass tank on the gallery&rsquo;s concrete floor. In the tank, a red pump pushes the rum out through a tube that runs along the right side of the metal sheet and skirts its top edge where the rum is released to begin the cycle again." data-caption="Mounted to a white gallery wall is a 2 by 2 meter steel sheet with a shallow trough at its bottom. Dark rum cascades down the dark grey steel and flows down a clear pipe which connects to a glass tank on the gallery’s concrete floor. In the tank, a red pump pushes the rum out through a tube that runs along the right side of the metal sheet and skirts its top edge where the rum is released to begin the cycle again." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23b97a5ff925aac830a6bda797d4d303ba8d5c05a029e169128116b5140126fe/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_010_web-4.jpg" />[ Mounted to a white gallery wall is a 2 by 2 meter steel sheet with a shallow trough at its bottom. Dark rum cascades down the dark grey steel and flows down a clear pipe which connects to a glass tank on the gallery’s concrete floor. In the tank, a red pump pushes the rum out through a tube that runs along the right side of the metal sheet and skirts its top edge where the rum is released to begin the cycle again. ] <img width="2500" height="1757" width_o="2500" height_o="1757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab72d836a4c7b07ae6ed78e911639c0deaab7b8a3230c30387210e7d927d9ce/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_017_web.jpg" data-mid="238858779" border="0" alt="A close-up of rum cascading down the metal sheet taken from a slight angle. The rum falls in evenly spaced streams, only the central streams are in focus. The sugary alcohol falls in patterns that resemble thick sticky tides that cling to the steel's surface. " data-caption="A close-up of rum cascading down the metal sheet taken from a slight angle. The rum falls in evenly spaced streams, only the central streams are in focus. The sugary alcohol falls in patterns that resemble thick sticky tides that cling to the steel's surface. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab72d836a4c7b07ae6ed78e911639c0deaab7b8a3230c30387210e7d927d9ce/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_017_web.jpg" /> [ A close-up of rum cascading down the metal sheet taken from a slight angle. The rum falls in evenly spaced streams, only the central streams are in focus. The sugary alcohol falls in patterns that resemble thick sticky tides that cling to the steel's surface. ] <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8979179eb1abb42a77508ec5f747208f528f1bd7eef1633a02797918c5cc7744/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_018_web.jpg" data-mid="238858781" border="0" alt="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Molasses brown rum that looks almost black fills the bottom third. Light foam ripples across the rum&rsquo;s surface as a pipe feeds more into the tank. A bright red water pump is partially submerged and connected to a hose that pushes the brown liquid back out. In areas the glass is foggy with condensation." data-caption="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Molasses brown rum that looks almost black fills the bottom third. Light foam ripples across the rum’s surface as a pipe feeds more into the tank. A bright red water pump is partially submerged and connected to a hose that pushes the brown liquid back out. In areas the glass is foggy with condensation." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8979179eb1abb42a77508ec5f747208f528f1bd7eef1633a02797918c5cc7744/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_018_web.jpg" />[A&nbsp; 40cm by&nbsp; 80cm glass tank&nbsp; on a&nbsp; concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Molasses brown rum that looks almost black fills the bottom third. Light foam ripples across the rum’s surface as a pipe feeds more into the tank. A bright red water pump is partially submerged and connected to a hose that pushes the brown liquid back out. In areas the glass is foggy with condensation.] <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46f67e1013a6b25a11a6c3e0b902dae537c0711f268c99ecccc4a93d80042ea4/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_013_web.jpg" data-mid="238858872" border="0" alt="A close up of the tank through its fogged glass. Rum pours in creating whitish-yellow froth that ripples across the dark almost black liquid." data-caption="A close up of the tank through its fogged glass. Rum pours in creating whitish-yellow froth that ripples across the dark almost black liquid." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46f67e1013a6b25a11a6c3e0b902dae537c0711f268c99ecccc4a93d80042ea4/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_013_web.jpg" /> [ A close up of the tank through its fogged glass. Rum pours in creating whitish-yellow froth that ripples across the dark almost black liquid. ] Photos by Matthew Arthur Williams Documenation of Untitled (Falls of Clyde, 1492, 1707- ) after 3 months. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" data-mid="238858772" border="0" alt="Close up of the steel sheet.The recirculating rum has created thick streaks of reddish-brown rust and thick sugary deposits on the steel&rsquo;s surface. " data-caption="Close up of the steel sheet.The recirculating rum has created thick streaks of reddish-brown rust and thick sugary deposits on the steel’s surface. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" /> [ Close up of the steel sheet.The recirculating rum has created thick streaks of reddish-brown rust and thick sugary deposits on the steel’s surface. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" data-mid="238858770" border="0" alt="Close up of the trough at the bottom of the steel sheet, with the pipe and hose also in view. Over time the rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." data-caption="Close up of the trough at the bottom of the steel sheet, with the pipe and hose also in view. Over time the rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" /> [ Close up of the trough at the bottom of the steel sheet, with the pipe and hose also in view. Over time the rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8f5ff9ca1c228eb107b2a8b56517235652a27fd7a62a9ed3df8caaf6f97d773/000044-1.jpg" data-mid="238858775" border="0" alt="An aerial view of the pipe feeding rum into the glass tank. The rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." data-caption="An aerial view of the pipe feeding rum into the glass tank. The rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8f5ff9ca1c228eb107b2a8b56517235652a27fd7a62a9ed3df8caaf6f97d773/000044-1.jpg" /> [ An aerial view of the pipe feeding rum into the glass tank. The rum has become a light muddy orange-brown as it mixes with rust created over the course of its running across the steel. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/320e18d98c3a5b65fd55a771af68f72aeb66e34fb1c40e32a09c673b359b108e/000043.jpg" data-mid="238858774" border="0" alt="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Muddy orange-brown liquid fills the bottom third and moves through the pipes and hose connected to the tank. Layers of rusty sediment stain the tank's sides." data-caption="A glass tank (40cm by 35cm by 80cm) on a dark concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Muddy orange-brown liquid fills the bottom third and moves through the pipes and hose connected to the tank. Layers of rusty sediment stain the tank's sides." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/320e18d98c3a5b65fd55a771af68f72aeb66e34fb1c40e32a09c673b359b108e/000043.jpg" /> [ A 40cm by 80cm glass tank&nbsp; on a&nbsp; concrete floor with curving tram tracks. Muddy orange-brown liquid fills the bottom third and moves through the pipes and hose connected to the tank. Layers of rusty sediment stain the tank's sides. ] Photos by Camara Taylor &nbsp;Untitled (falls, fools &amp; fails, 1820, 2024), 2024Three uncoated mild steel lecterns, inkjet prints, silver gelatin print,&nbsp; dimensions variableLecturns fabricated by Marie, Amelia, Julianna Laird and Evangeline Baldwin of the Slaghammers feminist welding collectiveCommissioned by Glasgow International with production and presentation support from Tramway.Below is documentation of the work presented as part of the solo exhibition, [mouthfeel], at Tramway in 2024. &nbsp; <img width="1440" height="2048" width_o="1440" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e098339f37c2b75abf3c90d96722105cd2bfbc71f894661ba20d5d836050e5b/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_024_web.jpg" data-mid="238858782" border="0" alt="Two steel lecterns cut diagonally across the gallery. Each one has a rectangular base, a pair of legs and a slanted book stand on the top with a shelf edge. In the foreground, a lectern is small and overturned, resting against the concrete floor with several documents placed on its stand. In the background, the lectern is a traditional height but has legs that bend inwards, like knees knocking together. Fixed high in the corner of the white gallery is a small speaker." data-caption="Two steel lecterns cut diagonally across the gallery. Each one has a rectangular base, a pair of legs and a slanted book stand on the top with a shelf edge. In the foreground, a lectern is small and overturned, resting against the concrete floor with several documents placed on its stand. In the background, the lectern is a traditional height but has legs that bend inwards, like knees knocking together. Fixed high in the corner of the white gallery is a small speaker." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e098339f37c2b75abf3c90d96722105cd2bfbc71f894661ba20d5d836050e5b/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_024_web.jpg" /> [ Two steel lecterns cut diagonally across the gallery. Each one has a rectangular base, a pair of legs and a slanted book stand on the top with a shelf edge. In the foreground, a lectern is small and overturned, resting against the concrete floor with several documents placed on its stand. In the background, the lectern is a traditional height but has legs that bend inwards, like knees knocking together. Fixed high in the corner of the white gallery is a small speaker. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba53ee9c4d9806fb11adeea7d5956d30d22ab3246f199d864cc9a511668e131/000058-1.jpg" data-mid="238858787" border="0" alt="A steel lectern that is too small, as if it&rsquo;s been compressed. It&rsquo;s overturned lying on the concrete floor. You&rsquo;d need to crouch or lie down to read from it. The lectern holds two white paper documents and 2 photographs. Printed text is sparsely dispersed across the papers. A black and white 5inch by 7inch photo sits in front of the papers. A silhouetted hand stretching out beneath clouds. A very small postcard is stuck directly to the steel lectern with a torn post-it. suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign." data-caption="A steel lectern that is too small, as if it’s been compressed. It’s overturned lying on the concrete floor. You’d need to crouch or lie down to read from it. The lectern holds two white paper documents and 2 photographs. Printed text is sparsely dispersed across the papers. A black and white 5inch by 7inch photo sits in front of the papers. A silhouetted hand stretching out beneath clouds. A very small postcard is stuck directly to the steel lectern with a torn post-it. suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba53ee9c4d9806fb11adeea7d5956d30d22ab3246f199d864cc9a511668e131/000058-1.jpg" /> [ A steel lectern that is too small, as if it’s been compressed. It’s overturned lying on the concrete floor. You’d need to crouch or lie down to read from it. The lectern holds two white paper documents and 2 photographs. Printed text is sparsely dispersed across the papers. A black and white 5inch by 7inch photo sits in front of the papers. A silhouetted hand stretching out beneath clouds. A very small postcard is stuck directly to the steel lectern with a torn post-it. suited men swear with their fingers spread into a V sign. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c507a4d004909f3d1e624fc1f2cd368c8baa08dec359c8acc96697de68d38bd/000064.jpg" data-mid="238858788" border="0" alt="A steel lectern with two tubular legs that bend inwards like knees knocking together, before flaring outward again connecting to the slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark grey steel except where the legs have been bent. This section is a shiny silver where the steel was sanded after cutting, bending and welding. " data-caption="A steel lectern with two tubular legs that bend inwards like knees knocking together, before flaring outward again connecting to the slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark grey steel except where the legs have been bent. This section is a shiny silver where the steel was sanded after cutting, bending and welding. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c507a4d004909f3d1e624fc1f2cd368c8baa08dec359c8acc96697de68d38bd/000064.jpg" /> [ A steel lectern with two tubular legs that bend inwards like knees knocking together, before flaring outward again connecting to the slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark grey steel except where the legs have been bent. This section is a shiny silver where the steel was sanded after cutting, bending and welding. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f28bd508f56cd1f219dacbe4319bfb32e378942f89fa816deab908b720ff8ce6/000062-1.jpg" data-mid="238858784" border="0" alt=" Close-up showing the top of a steel lectern. It has two tubular legs and a slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark dull grey, except the left leg which is a shiny silver. The left leg pierces through the stand. A thin ring of rust sits on the surface circling the tubular protrusion. Nestled around the inside of this leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the words &lsquo;witnesses against&rsquo; repeat." data-caption=" Close-up showing the top of a steel lectern. It has two tubular legs and a slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark dull grey, except the left leg which is a shiny silver. The left leg pierces through the stand. A thin ring of rust sits on the surface circling the tubular protrusion. Nestled around the inside of this leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the words ‘witnesses against’ repeat." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f28bd508f56cd1f219dacbe4319bfb32e378942f89fa816deab908b720ff8ce6/000062-1.jpg" /> [ Close-up showing the top of a steel lectern. It has two tubular legs and a slanted book stand. The lectern is a dark dull grey, except the left leg which is a shiny silver. The left leg pierces through the stand. A thin ring of rust sits on the surface circling the tubular protrusion. Nestled around the inside of this leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the words ‘witnesses against’ repeat. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49a72c6de39889cdeab36cbaac3b8a09ca888906a3bd8036b12a0c8276d2757b/000061.jpg" data-mid="238858783" border="0" alt="Close up of a steel lectern. A tubular leg pierces the surface of the book stand. Nestled around the inside of the leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the visible words are &lsquo;swarms of false&rsquo;." data-caption="Close up of a steel lectern. A tubular leg pierces the surface of the book stand. Nestled around the inside of the leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the visible words are ‘swarms of false’." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49a72c6de39889cdeab36cbaac3b8a09ca888906a3bd8036b12a0c8276d2757b/000061.jpg" /> [ Close up of a steel lectern. A tubular leg pierces the surface of the book stand. Nestled around the inside of the leg is a piece of paper printed with multiple lines of the same phrase. From this angle, the visible words are ‘swarms of false’. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59420c8ef6eedc23d02ac249d7e45d233cc6550e6b8ba6bd5137f54745cc2d36/000050.jpg" data-mid="238858849" border="0" alt="A white walled gallery with floor to ceiling windows that look onto a car lined street. Standing on the concrete in front of the window is an absurdly tall steel lectern rising to over 1.5 meters. The lectern is dark grey with a slanted book stand which is held up by two tubular legs that descend in parallel lines to a rectangular base. The lectern is facing the window so we can&rsquo;t see what it holds." data-caption="A white walled gallery with floor to ceiling windows that look onto a car lined street. Standing on the concrete in front of the window is an absurdly tall steel lectern rising to over 1.5 meters. The lectern is dark grey with a slanted book stand which is held up by two tubular legs that descend in parallel lines to a rectangular base. The lectern is facing the window so we can’t see what it holds." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59420c8ef6eedc23d02ac249d7e45d233cc6550e6b8ba6bd5137f54745cc2d36/000050.jpg" /> [ A white walled gallery with floor to ceiling windows that look onto a car lined street. Standing on the concrete in front of the window is an absurdly tall steel lectern rising to over 1.5 meters. The lectern is dark grey with a slanted book stand which is held up by two tubular legs that descend in parallel lines to a rectangular base. The lectern is facing the window so we can’t see what it holds. ] <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c791c844ea5af43e837263716c8665683f1646e37cc4f3faaa2c1f4f084f3969/000052-1.jpg" data-mid="238858851" border="0" alt="Close up of a tall steel lectern. Two A4 documents arranged side by side on a slanted steel stand. On the left, a black and white scan of a photograph. Three black children are standing in the middle of the street lined with tenements and rubble. Inky smudges distort parts of the image. On the right, printed text attempts to describe the photograph. The page has handwritten annotations and redactions in thick black felt tip." data-caption="Close up of a tall steel lectern. Two A4 documents arranged side by side on a slanted steel stand. On the left, a black and white scan of a photograph. Three black children are standing in the middle of the street lined with tenements and rubble. Inky smudges distort parts of the image. On the right, printed text attempts to describe the photograph. The page has handwritten annotations and redactions in thick black felt tip." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c791c844ea5af43e837263716c8665683f1646e37cc4f3faaa2c1f4f084f3969/000052-1.jpg" />[ Close up of a tall steel lectern. Two A4 documents arranged side by side on a slanted steel stand. On the left, a black and white scan of a photograph. Three black children are standing in the middle of the street lined with tenements and rubble. Inky smudges distort parts of the image. On the right, printed text attempts to describe the photograph. The page has handwritten annotations and redactions in thick black felt tip. ] <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e58bd2aa7ff36eae3722fc6905e501c6521f622f568e2956efc31764fa481ee0/IMG_9450-1.jpg" data-mid="238858903" border="0" alt="Close crop of scanned black and white photograph. Three black children stand in the middle of the street, behind them are large piles of rubble. Left child is standing stiffly and can only be seen from the mouth down. Middle child is the smallest and is holding a large satchel. Right child stands casually with a slight lean. Veiny metallic blotches distort parts of the photo, it appears as if the ink is eroding where the children stand" data-caption="Close crop of scanned black and white photograph. Three black children stand in the middle of the street, behind them are large piles of rubble. Left child is standing stiffly and can only be seen from the mouth down. Middle child is the smallest and is holding a large satchel. Right child stands casually with a slight lean. Veiny metallic blotches distort parts of the photo, it appears as if the ink is eroding where the children stand" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e58bd2aa7ff36eae3722fc6905e501c6521f622f568e2956efc31764fa481ee0/IMG_9450-1.jpg" /> [ Close crop of scanned black and white photograph. Three black children stand in the middle of the street, behind them are large piles of rubble. Left child is standing stiffly and can only be seen from the mouth down. Middle child is the smallest and is holding a large satchel. Right child stands casually with a slight lean. Veiny metallic blotches distort parts of the photo, it appears as if the ink is eroding where the children stand. ] Photographs by Camara Taylor axe laid root, diptych, 2024Blackbrown iridescent glass, digital print, ink, 30x40cm Below is documentation of the work presented as part of the group exhibition, Soft Impressions, at DCA Dundee in 2024. <img width="1134" height="1701" width_o="1134" height_o="1701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b25d51ffbe44840dae49d2068c4b88b401e66a9b6fcf900ce5e4d2dde0e2312/8f424b5a-5744-472b-84d7-d07a12ee021b.jpg" data-mid="238858877" border="0" data-scale="50" data-no-zoom alt="Sunlight casts a soft rectangular shadow on a white gallery wall. Hanging on the wall is a photographic diptych. On the right a black and white photograph of two people standing side-by-side. The image is tightly cropped,from their shoulders to their hips. They both grip the same object,one arm close to the other&rsquo;s but never touching. On the left is the same image flipped so that they mirror each other. Each print is covered by a sheet of multi-coloured glass. Opaque brown streaks across translucent iridescence, obscuring parts of the images." data-caption="Sunlight casts a soft rectangular shadow on a white gallery wall. Hanging on the wall is a photographic diptych. On the right a black and white photograph of two people standing side-by-side. The image is tightly cropped,from their shoulders to their hips. They both grip the same object,one arm close to the other’s but never touching. On the left is the same image flipped so that they mirror each other. Each print is covered by a sheet of multi-coloured glass. Opaque brown streaks across translucent iridescence, obscuring parts of the images." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b25d51ffbe44840dae49d2068c4b88b401e66a9b6fcf900ce5e4d2dde0e2312/8f424b5a-5744-472b-84d7-d07a12ee021b.jpg" />[ Sunlight casts a soft rectangular shadow on a white gallery wall. Hanging on the wall is a photographic diptych. On the right a black and white photograph of two people standing side-by-side. The image is tightly cropped,from their shoulders to their hips. They both grip the same object,one arm close to the other’s but never touching. On the left is the same image flipped so that they mirror each other. Each print is covered by a sheet of multi-coloured glass. Opaque brown streaks across translucent iridescence, obscuring parts of the images. ] <img width="803" height="1204" width_o="803" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5833a2b262f3fc3eebb0b3f10974dfc9e894614f2ccb46ed556be0a498a02000/cd78017e-323b-429b-951c-885c86dc3156.jpg" data-mid="238858880" border="0" data-scale="50" data-no-zoom alt="Close up of axe laid root. Iridescent glass with rich brown streaks shimmers on top of a blurred image of two arms almost touching." data-caption="Close up of axe laid root. Iridescent glass with rich brown streaks shimmers on top of a blurred image of two arms almost touching." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/803/i/5833a2b262f3fc3eebb0b3f10974dfc9e894614f2ccb46ed556be0a498a02000/cd78017e-323b-429b-951c-885c86dc3156.jpg" />[ Close up of axe laid root. Iridescent glass with rich brown streaks shimmers on top of a blurred image of two arms almost touching. ] <img width="2024" height="1349" width_o="2024" height_o="1349" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fd2bf1812f050c3107e184191314232efe4169fb0271f8ff1cb4d1fd16a1bf6/240612_SI_DCA_25-1.jpg" data-mid="238858881" border="0" alt="Close up of axe laid root. Handwritten scrawls in white ink are visible on the back of the brown and iridescent glass. The text is reversed and so illegible." data-caption="Close up of axe laid root. Handwritten scrawls in white ink are visible on the back of the brown and iridescent glass. The text is reversed and so illegible." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fd2bf1812f050c3107e184191314232efe4169fb0271f8ff1cb4d1fd16a1bf6/240612_SI_DCA_25-1.jpg" /> [ Close up of axe laid root. Handwritten scrawls in white ink are visible on the back of the brown and iridescent glass. The text is reversed and so illegible. ] Untitled (Melo’s fists, 2014),&nbsp; 2024Giclee Print, Coloured Glass, Blackened oak frame, 81x55cm <img width="2048" height="1436" width_o="2048" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17e935e77ba3bfe2604096546c573573115cb82f770c001de5f25a7f05a9d0a2/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_002_web.jpg" data-mid="238858859" border="0" alt="Installation view of Melo&rsquo;s Fists. A photograph framed in a thin oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass hung. The photograph is a screenshot from a documentary, rephotographed on 35mm film. A black man is outside at night wearing a thick grey winter jacket and a stripey purple scarf. His face is partially obscured, only viewed from below his mouth and nose. The focus is his fists, clenched and raised in front of his chest, his body angled in a defensive stance." data-caption="Installation view of Melo’s Fists. A photograph framed in a thin oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass hung. The photograph is a screenshot from a documentary, rephotographed on 35mm film. A black man is outside at night wearing a thick grey winter jacket and a stripey purple scarf. His face is partially obscured, only viewed from below his mouth and nose. The focus is his fists, clenched and raised in front of his chest, his body angled in a defensive stance." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17e935e77ba3bfe2604096546c573573115cb82f770c001de5f25a7f05a9d0a2/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_002_web.jpg" /> [ Installation view of Melo’s Fists. A photograph framed in a thin oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass hung. The photograph is a screenshot from a documentary, rephotographed on 35mm film. A black man is outside at night wearing a thick grey winter jacket and a stripey purple scarf. His face is partially obscured, only viewed from below his mouth and nose. The focus is his fists, clenched and raised in front of his chest, his body angled in a defensive stance. ] <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aa76e87637202bff317fd9c85db6bff67facf373253c843a19e116169f036b1/P1020883-1.jpg" data-mid="238858790" border="0" alt="Close up of Melo&rsquo;s Fists. The brown streaky glass casts shimmering tones and speckled shadows across clenched fists." data-caption="Close up of Melo’s Fists. The brown streaky glass casts shimmering tones and speckled shadows across clenched fists." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aa76e87637202bff317fd9c85db6bff67facf373253c843a19e116169f036b1/P1020883-1.jpg" />[ Close up of Melo’s Fists. The brown streaky glass casts shimmering tones and speckled shadows across clenched fists. ]&nbsp; Untitled (Paul’s Hands, 1930), 2024Giclee Print, Coloured Glass, Blackened oak frame,&nbsp; 81x55cm <img width="2048" height="1450" width_o="2048" height_o="1450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7704cd32b527e14c1955d5bfcf9d69fae0e53edfc7783d59d819ccc050396a6d/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_001_web.jpg" data-mid="238858791" border="0" alt="Installation view of Paul&rsquo;s Hand. A colour photograph framed in a thin blackened oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass. The browns appear as inky wisps, creating patterns that resemble curls of smoke. The frame is 81cm by 55cm in total but the image itself only takes up a fraction of this space and is set close to the centre left edge. It&rsquo;s an extreme closeup of Paul Robeson's face captured in stark black and white. His face is covered by his hand, palm facing us in a gesture of refusal that leaves only his ears and forehead exposed." data-caption="Installation view of Paul’s Hand. A colour photograph framed in a thin blackened oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass. The browns appear as inky wisps, creating patterns that resemble curls of smoke. The frame is 81cm by 55cm in total but the image itself only takes up a fraction of this space and is set close to the centre left edge. It’s an extreme closeup of Paul Robeson's face captured in stark black and white. His face is covered by his hand, palm facing us in a gesture of refusal that leaves only his ears and forehead exposed." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7704cd32b527e14c1955d5bfcf9d69fae0e53edfc7783d59d819ccc050396a6d/2024_GI_CTaylor_TramwayT5_001_web.jpg" /> [Installation view of Paul’s Hand. A colour photograph framed in a thin blackened oak frame behind clear and brown streaky glass. The browns appear as inky wisps, creating patterns that resemble curls of smoke. The frame is 81cm by 55cm in total but the image itself only takes up a fraction of this space and is set close to the centre left edge. It’s an extreme closeup of Paul Robeson's face captured in stark black and white. His face is covered by his hand, palm facing us in a gesture of refusal that leaves only his ears and forehead exposed. ] Both works commissioned by Glasgow International 2024Photography by Matthew Arthur Williams installation view, Soft Impressions, DCA Dundee, 2024 <img width="5233" height="3489" width_o="5233" height_o="3489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd7de3ebfe67e90741fab52eb240c9337edd6884f6830aead7e1c41b98a976b6/Untitled-Pauls-Hand-and-Untitled-Melos-Fists-1.jpg" data-mid="238858873" border="0" alt="Two framed photographs, Paul&rsquo;s Hand and Melo&rsquo;s Fists are hung on a white gallery wall. Paul&rsquo;s Hand is to the right and hung high, Melo&rsquo;s Fists are to the left and hung low. Both frames are 81cm by 55cm." data-caption="Two framed photographs, Paul’s Hand and Melo’s Fists are hung on a white gallery wall. Paul’s Hand is to the right and hung high, Melo’s Fists are to the left and hung low. Both frames are 81cm by 55cm." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd7de3ebfe67e90741fab52eb240c9337edd6884f6830aead7e1c41b98a976b6/Untitled-Pauls-Hand-and-Untitled-Melos-Fists-1.jpg" /> [ Two framed photographs, Paul’s Hand and Melo’s Fists are hung on a white gallery wall. Paul’s Hand is to the right and hung high, Melo’s Fists are to the left and hung low. Both frames are 81cm by 55cm. ] Untitled (blue re/decomposition 2015, 2022), 2022Submerged Kodak Metallic Print, Acrylic Tray,&nbsp; Hand Painted Oak Frame, Wray &amp; Nephews Rum, scottish water, 82x46cm <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" data-mid="238858794" border="0" alt="A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The photograph is of gentle waves in the Caribbean sea. The frame is oak painted dark blue to match the sea. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. The submerged photograph seems partially pixelated or glitchy and has a metallic sheen. Dark blues are interrupted by glints of bright white, as the sea reflects the sunlight." data-caption="A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The photograph is of gentle waves in the Caribbean sea. The frame is oak painted dark blue to match the sea. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. The submerged photograph seems partially pixelated or glitchy and has a metallic sheen. Dark blues are interrupted by glints of bright white, as the sea reflects the sunlight." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" /> [ A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The photograph is of gentle waves in the Caribbean sea. The frame is oak painted dark blue to match the sea. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. The submerged photograph seems partially pixelated or glitchy and has a metallic sheen. Dark blues are interrupted by glints of bright white, as the sea reflects the sunlight. ] <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" data-mid="238858795" border="0" alt="The same work photographed after 3 weeks. A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The frame is oak painted a dark blue. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. Over time the submerged photograph as transformed. Rum has eaten through and lifted the ink, revealing white paper. Some hues of black and grey remain fixed to the paper, whilst murky red ink swirls above and pools in corners." data-caption="The same work photographed after 3 weeks. A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The frame is oak painted a dark blue. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. Over time the submerged photograph as transformed. Rum has eaten through and lifted the ink, revealing white paper. Some hues of black and grey remain fixed to the paper, whilst murky red ink swirls above and pools in corners." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" /> [ The same work photographed after 3 weeks. A large framed photograph on a light grey gallery floor. The frame is oak painted a dark blue. There is no glass and instead the frame is filled with clear white rum. Over time the submerged photograph as transformed. Rum has eaten through and lifted the ink, revealing white paper. Some hues of black and grey remain fixed to the paper, whilst murky red ink swirls above and pools in corners. ] Photographs by Tom Nolan Untitled (re/decomposition 4, 1871, 2021, 2022), 2022Silver Gelatin Print; Blackened Oak Frame, 116 x 80cm <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57182f666f1ee828b5d019885ce0f12400f0ba2f6d338ad0effd256f1f7e379e/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---8.jpg" data-mid="238858792" border="0" alt="A large black and white photograph in a blackened oak frame is hung on a white gallery wall. The photograph is of a print that has been covered in dark mould creating an abstract and blotchy constellation." data-caption="A large black and white photograph in a blackened oak frame is hung on a white gallery wall. The photograph is of a print that has been covered in dark mould creating an abstract and blotchy constellation." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57182f666f1ee828b5d019885ce0f12400f0ba2f6d338ad0effd256f1f7e379e/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---8.jpg" /> [ A large black and white photograph in a blackened oak frame is hung on a white gallery wall. The photograph is of a print that has been covered in dark mould creating an abstract and blotchy constellation. ] Photographs by Tom Nolan witness, 2022Digital collage, Lightbox, 120x173cminstallation view, When Bodies Whisper, Timespan, Helmsdale, 2022 <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45150f5e3b6dd613b8e992a4fe3dbe412536fa741361ebc5386e4dde2c94f860/whisper-33-final.jpg" data-mid="238858798" border="0" alt="Corner view of a gallery foyer. The right wall is white with a large opening that leads to a gallery exhibition. The left wall is a midnight blue and has a large picture window. Left of this window is witness, a large light box. It illuminates a digital collage. Bright pink text overlays Robert Duncanson&rsquo;s 1871 oil painting, &lsquo;A Scottish Landscape&rsquo;. The painting uses warm colours to depict a &lsquo;romantic wilderness&rsquo; with a river, rich vegetation and mountains in the distance. The pink text reads: &ldquo; there is not single witness has ever said that I said anything&rdquo;." data-caption="Corner view of a gallery foyer. The right wall is white with a large opening that leads to a gallery exhibition. The left wall is a midnight blue and has a large picture window. Left of this window is witness, a large light box. It illuminates a digital collage. Bright pink text overlays Robert Duncanson’s 1871 oil painting, ‘A Scottish Landscape’. The painting uses warm colours to depict a ‘romantic wilderness’ with a river, rich vegetation and mountains in the distance. The pink text reads: “ there is not single witness has ever said that I said anything”." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45150f5e3b6dd613b8e992a4fe3dbe412536fa741361ebc5386e4dde2c94f860/whisper-33-final.jpg" /> [ Corner view of a gallery foyer. The right wall is white with a large opening that leads to a gallery exhibition. The left wall is a midnight blue and has a large picture window. Left of this window is witness, a large light box. It illuminates a digital collage. Bright pink text overlays Robert Duncanson’s 1871 oil painting, ‘A Scottish Landscape’. The painting uses warm colours to depict a ‘romantic wilderness’ with a river, rich vegetation and mountains in the distance. The pink text reads: “ there is not single witness has ever said that I said anything”. ] <img width="3543" height="2363" width_o="3543" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72de764fbc6d0f5ccacd00eaf873185f36f629e07c7eeb92154e0f449a9657e1/whisper-66-low-res.jpeg" data-mid="238858796" border="0" alt="witness, a large digital collage in a light box hangs on a midnight blue gallery wall. The work is in the far left corner of the wall where it meets a narrow white partition wall. Beyond the partition is a wall of wooden shelving full of books. Spotlit above the shelving, large vinyl text reads &ldquo;ARCHIVE&rdquo;. " data-caption="witness, a large digital collage in a light box hangs on a midnight blue gallery wall. The work is in the far left corner of the wall where it meets a narrow white partition wall. Beyond the partition is a wall of wooden shelving full of books. Spotlit above the shelving, large vinyl text reads “ARCHIVE”. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72de764fbc6d0f5ccacd00eaf873185f36f629e07c7eeb92154e0f449a9657e1/whisper-66-low-res.jpeg" />[&nbsp;witness, a large digital collage in a light box hangs on a midnight blue gallery wall. The work is in the far left corner of the wall where it meets a narrow white partition wall. Beyond the partition is a wall of wooden shelving full of books. Spotlit above the shelving, large vinyl text reads “ARCHIVE”. ] IMG_5917, 2021 HD VideoRETREAT (Sulaïman Majali, Camara Taylor) &amp; Collective Text RETREAT is a collaborative endeavour between Majali and Taylor that grabs, evades and inhabits slippages. Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held. The work also stems from frustration, fatigue and cognitive dissonances: a desire to retreat from particular ways of working, being, making publics.In IMG_5917,&nbsp; flat planes of grey, green and purple convolute an encounter with a collapsed tree on a long walk; the device weights conversation in a misremembered image. <img width="1630" height="918" width_o="1630" height_o="918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f6e997d3a982549cb1ebe4d9e578c7bb4c5ec40c096aa62ed0bfd4b607d3574/FBGj6saVUBAzKJh.jpeg" data-mid="238917580" border="0" alt="A video still. Pixelated greys obscure and distort an image of a woodland clearing. On the left, emerging from the grey are tree trunks,soil, and moss-like patches of bright green and purple." data-caption="A video still. Pixelated greys obscure and distort an image of a woodland clearing. On the left, emerging from the grey are tree trunks,soil, and moss-like patches of bright green and purple." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f6e997d3a982549cb1ebe4d9e578c7bb4c5ec40c096aa62ed0bfd4b607d3574/FBGj6saVUBAzKJh.jpeg" />[ A video still. Pixelated greys obscure and distort an image of a woodland clearing. On the left, emerging from the grey are tree trunks,soil, and moss-like patches of bright green and purple. ] <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a104c8904fa8a4f805ce3e9b6f2d269d3120c28633cd884e027adfe4ab8df7ff/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.23.52.png" data-mid="238917578" border="0" alt="A video still of a fallen tree in a woodland clearing. The tree&rsquo;s root flare is shadowed, an uneven semicircle of root and moss. Its wide trunk is dappled in sunlight and extends towards the camera. In the background, sunlight shines through thinning woodland. On-screen text is positioned in the centre of the frame, three lines of text in pale yellow, purple and green read: &ldquo;I feel strange&mdash;&rdquo;; &ldquo;(voices clash)&rdquo; and &ldquo;Our desires.&rdquo;" data-caption="A video still of a fallen tree in a woodland clearing. The tree’s root flare is shadowed, an uneven semicircle of root and moss. Its wide trunk is dappled in sunlight and extends towards the camera. In the background, sunlight shines through thinning woodland. On-screen text is positioned in the centre of the frame, three lines of text in pale yellow, purple and green read: “I feel strange—”; “(voices clash)” and “Our desires.”" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a104c8904fa8a4f805ce3e9b6f2d269d3120c28633cd884e027adfe4ab8df7ff/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.23.52.png" /> [ A video still of a fallen tree in a woodland clearing. The tree’s root flare is shadowed, an uneven semicircle of root and moss. Its wide trunk is dappled in sunlight and extends towards the camera.&nbsp; In the background, sunlight shines through thinning woodland. On-screen text is positioned in the centre of the frame, three lines of text in pale yellow, purple and green read: “I feel strange—”;&nbsp; “(voices clash)” and “Our desires.” ] <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e440149730efdc171b9dab11e25a05b3ee6aaace86d4c91fa5f54d97a0b3a014/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.09.12.png" data-mid="238917581" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e440149730efdc171b9dab11e25a05b3ee6aaace86d4c91fa5f54d97a0b3a014/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.09.12.png" />[ A video still. Pale yellow text sits in the centre against a flat grey background. It reads: “Mmmm…” ] <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c56ea1b7b0648d885ddda20f07e2077c2c43cf88cd3d4c557d2c72b37a10f01/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.56.png" data-mid="238918635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c56ea1b7b0648d885ddda20f07e2077c2c43cf88cd3d4c557d2c72b37a10f01/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.56.png" />[ A video still. A fallen tree in a woodland clearing. The tree's large upturned base is an uneven semicircle of tightly packed soil and exposed roots illuminated by direct sunlight. The sun casts shadows across the tree and clearing. In the background, blue sky peeks through the surrounding woodland. Pale yellow on-screen text reads: “You just came back”. ] IMG_5917&nbsp; was commissioned for GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW, the 2021 edition of Glasgow’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival co-programmed by Tako Taal and Adam Benmakhlouf. noodles who rave for abolition, 2020Engraved polished brass zippo lighter <img width="1413" height="943" width_o="1413" height_o="943" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7053b9c0200dabc75dc8ddf9f9c71efad4e340fc117a53574a91c31320e6a8d9/LanguidAug2021-8c.png" data-mid="238858803" border="0" alt="A polished brass zippo lighter affixed to white card. Engraved cursive writing reads: &lsquo;Noodles who rave for abolition'" data-caption="A polished brass zippo lighter affixed to white card. Engraved cursive writing reads: ‘Noodles who rave for abolition'" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7053b9c0200dabc75dc8ddf9f9c71efad4e340fc117a53574a91c31320e6a8d9/LanguidAug2021-8c.png" /> [ A polished brass zippo lighter affixed to white card. Engraved cursive writing reads: ‘Noodles who rave for abolition’ ] https://camarataylor.com/video Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:29:44 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/video &nbsp;SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO&nbsp; <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ab4ae10c6b9583d15259bc2bb2112fad8418d309dae143fd5f77fea60f40aec/240612_SI_DCA_42.jpg" data-mid="224569921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ab4ae10c6b9583d15259bc2bb2112fad8418d309dae143fd5f77fea60f40aec/240612_SI_DCA_42.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10c83a9e72294cdef01f2dc0a1d68931721b695f7d4c21477472193cbddf69d4/240612_SI_DCA_43.jpg" data-mid="224569924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10c83a9e72294cdef01f2dc0a1d68931721b695f7d4c21477472193cbddf69d4/240612_SI_DCA_43.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32bb7bafdee0b762d8ecdb39ff3069f7965d97f519bff16a07740c9a935c987a/240612_SI_DCA_39.jpg" data-mid="224569925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32bb7bafdee0b762d8ecdb39ff3069f7965d97f519bff16a07740c9a935c987a/240612_SI_DCA_39.jpg" /> nobody’s word, HD Video, 13mins, 2025Sound: Camara Taylor and nel tessier-lavigne Additional Sound: Francis Dosoo and 皚桐aí tung Captions and Sound Description - Collective Text 2024, Camara Taylor, Emilia Beatriz &amp; Ciaran Stewart, BSL Consultation: Klarissa Webster Commissioned by Dundee Contemporary Arts with support from The Ampersand Foundation Winner of a Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2025 A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod “to import 4000 Africans into New Spain.” The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated&nbsp; in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell. <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c23616c23e735e25e7909d62af4676650ee4932ef72cabc3e222ed1243bff21e/vlcsnap-2022-10-30-14h26m46s731.png" data-mid="224567706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c23616c23e735e25e7909d62af4676650ee4932ef72cabc3e222ed1243bff21e/vlcsnap-2022-10-30-14h26m46s731.png" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c165decddd950d62e85efce64f302b1612a100d599eac0edce12e847b781a773/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---3.jpg" data-mid="224567707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c165decddd950d62e85efce64f302b1612a100d599eac0edce12e847b781a773/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---3.jpg" /> 1695, 2022 4.25am, 4K video (looped), 29mins 16secs, 2022Filmed at Marine Esplanade, nestled between the Port of Leith and Seafield Waste Water Sewage Works. Over 29minutes waves crash and the sun rises over the mouth from which the Darien Company’s ships first set sail.&nbsp; <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e440149730efdc171b9dab11e25a05b3ee6aaace86d4c91fa5f54d97a0b3a014/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.09.12.png" data-mid="224567769" border="0" alt="A video still. Light yellow text sits in the centre against a digital grey background. It reads, &ldquo;Mmmm&hellip;&rdquo;" data-caption="A video still. Light yellow text sits in the centre against a digital grey background. It reads, “Mmmm…”" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e440149730efdc171b9dab11e25a05b3ee6aaace86d4c91fa5f54d97a0b3a014/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.09.12.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a104c8904fa8a4f805ce3e9b6f2d269d3120c28633cd884e027adfe4ab8df7ff/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.23.52.png" data-mid="224567772" border="0" alt="A video still of a fallen tree in woodland. The prostate tree is centre frame; its upturned base is a semicircle of root, moss and shadow from which its wide trunk dappled in sunlight extends towards the viewer. In the background, the sun shines through thinning woodland. The captions are positioned in the centre of the frame, three lines of text in pale yellow, purple and green respectively that read, &ldquo;I feel strange&mdash; / (voices clash) / Our desires.&rdquo;" data-caption="A video still of a fallen tree in woodland. The prostate tree is centre frame; its upturned base is a semicircle of root, moss and shadow from which its wide trunk dappled in sunlight extends towards the viewer. In the background, the sun shines through thinning woodland. The captions are positioned in the centre of the frame, three lines of text in pale yellow, purple and green respectively that read, “I feel strange— / (voices clash) / Our desires.”" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a104c8904fa8a4f805ce3e9b6f2d269d3120c28633cd884e027adfe4ab8df7ff/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.23.52.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66b884cfb8cdb5d93b71a6c83573ed928a1f392dfd40ee41024ab97d0e9121db/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.11.png" data-mid="224567773" border="0" alt="A video still. Pixelated greys distort a landscape. In the center of the frame is a caption, white text in a black box which reads, &ldquo;(compressed digital noise)&rdquo;. At the bottom of the screen is, &ldquo;IMG_5917(3).MOV&rdquo;" data-caption="A video still. Pixelated greys distort a landscape. In the center of the frame is a caption, white text in a black box which reads, “(compressed digital noise)”. At the bottom of the screen is, “IMG_5917(3).MOV”" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66b884cfb8cdb5d93b71a6c83573ed928a1f392dfd40ee41024ab97d0e9121db/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.11.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c56ea1b7b0648d885ddda20f07e2077c2c43cf88cd3d4c557d2c72b37a10f01/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.56.png" data-mid="224567771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c56ea1b7b0648d885ddda20f07e2077c2c43cf88cd3d4c557d2c72b37a10f01/Screenshot-2021-11-28-at-13.04.56.png" /> <img width="1630" height="918" width_o="1630" height_o="918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f6e997d3a982549cb1ebe4d9e578c7bb4c5ec40c096aa62ed0bfd4b607d3574/FBGj6saVUBAzKJh.jpeg" data-mid="224567788" border="0" alt="A video still. Pixelated greys distort a landscape. To the left, emerging from the grey are green and purple hued tree trunks, grass and dirt. " data-caption="A video still. Pixelated greys distort a landscape. To the left, emerging from the grey are green and purple hued tree trunks, grass and dirt. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f6e997d3a982549cb1ebe4d9e578c7bb4c5ec40c096aa62ed0bfd4b607d3574/FBGj6saVUBAzKJh.jpeg" /> IMG_5917HD Video, 10mins, 2021 RETREAT (Sulaïman Majali, Camara Taylor) &amp; Collective Text Commissioned for GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW, the 2021 edition of Glasgow’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival co-programmed by Tako Taal and Adam Benmakhlouf. In the work, flat planes of grey, green and purple convolute an encounter with a collapsed tree on a long walk; the device weights conversation in a misremembered image.RETREAT is a collaborative endeavour between Majali and Taylor that grabs, evades and inhabits slippages. Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held. The work also stems from frustration, fatigue and cognitive dissonances: a desire to retreat from particular ways of working, being, making publics. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53e2723d7fd5fd01ac9e1fc8864e184696445fecb549642f8cba64b921b35f13/vlcsnap-2022-09-27-13h14m03s873.png" data-mid="224569685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53e2723d7fd5fd01ac9e1fc8864e184696445fecb549642f8cba64b921b35f13/vlcsnap-2022-09-27-13h14m03s873.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c24f319cd946088e00be22112eba0bc42633e9bebf2c77f3b5050514a164a361/holus-bolus2021-07-28-14h47m44s076.jpg" data-mid="224569687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c24f319cd946088e00be22112eba0bc42633e9bebf2c77f3b5050514a164a361/holus-bolus2021-07-28-14h47m44s076.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4085df03d4622dc6ff572e25536a99da4bfacbbb04f3db2fc6b15a09b7037690/holus-bolus2021-07-28-14h47m19s357.jpg" data-mid="224569686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4085df03d4622dc6ff572e25536a99da4bfacbbb04f3db2fc6b15a09b7037690/holus-bolus2021-07-28-14h47m19s357.jpg" /> holus-bolusHD Video, 7min39secs, 2021rehearsed by Nima Séne;narrated by Shola von Reinhold;figured by Camara Taylor &amp; Sulaïman Majali;with sound by: 皚桐 Commissioned as part of What happens to desire... cur. Tako Taal as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2021.Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund and EventScotland. Our Commissions Programme is kindly supported by the Patrons of EAF Commissioning Circle. <img width="2912" height="3882" width_o="2912" height_o="3882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eebc7c4782d27d9e5fd615ec28034ed240b5d015c4b4d30da204917cc03908c5/IMG_3328.jpg" data-mid="224569691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eebc7c4782d27d9e5fd615ec28034ed240b5d015c4b4d30da204917cc03908c5/IMG_3328.jpg" />installation view, When Bodies Whisper, TimeSpan, Helmsdale, 2022 holus-bolus, is inspired by the tellings and re-tellings of the life and death of William Davidson (1781 – 1820). Conspirator, radical or wrongfully convicted, Davidson was the son of a Scotsman, the Attorney General of Jamaica, and a black woman. He studied mathematics at Aberdeen University and later became a cabinet maker. In 1820, Davidson delivered an ‘eloquent and unsuccessful’ speech to court during the trial for his alleged involvement in the Cato Street Conspiracy (a radical plot to assassinate cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister). Throughout the trial, Davidson maintained his innocence, claiming he’d been mistaken for another man of colour in the area at the time. &nbsp;holus-bolus-meaning all at once-is located in the days preceding a public performance, as cast and crew move through court transcripts, rumour, and regency era ephemera in their attempt to understand, and rehearse Davidson’s final speech. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ac910cb8b16d6bcfa73ff699c097bfca95d93f0ceb8ff778c9ff8f148095eac/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h38m17s743.png" data-mid="224569764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ac910cb8b16d6bcfa73ff699c097bfca95d93f0ceb8ff778c9ff8f148095eac/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h38m17s743.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51ebfec5163d65e3fc87638f694ac8d2a35e88a079931e9c799fd793cf01e087/Camara-Taylor_--pining--working-title--2021--4K-video-still-1.png" data-mid="224569767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51ebfec5163d65e3fc87638f694ac8d2a35e88a079931e9c799fd793cf01e087/Camara-Taylor_--pining--working-title--2021--4K-video-still-1.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4528cf5377398e56c7c06f7fce56cf43d75f3a7516ab68508079d1795b62e811/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h41m55s488.png" data-mid="224569763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4528cf5377398e56c7c06f7fce56cf43d75f3a7516ab68508079d1795b62e811/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h41m55s488.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bac4ed9c0f93f1a46e7ff0f2910b5b993fbac7c362ef0b6157ddbc3030a2a0ba/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h37m30s300.png" data-mid="224569759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bac4ed9c0f93f1a46e7ff0f2910b5b993fbac7c362ef0b6157ddbc3030a2a0ba/vlcsnap-2022-05-01-15h37m30s300.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d6bf7926767e17532a1cd8f5469b5791cf5deb456a8d828b53ae594f85f29eb/Camara-Taylor_--pining--working-title--2021--4K-video-still-2.png" data-mid="224569761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d6bf7926767e17532a1cd8f5469b5791cf5deb456a8d828b53ae594f85f29eb/Camara-Taylor_--pining--working-title--2021--4K-video-still-2.png" /> suspiration!2K video, 23m 43sec, 2021 Camara and Edit: Camara Taylor Sound Design:&nbsp; 皚桐 &amp; Camara Taylor; Post-Production (Sound) Francis Dosoo&nbsp; Developed with support from Market Gallery, Glasgow as a recipient of a Studio Projects Residency 2020. Comissioned by Calum Bayne &amp; The Newbridge Project, Gateshead.Winner of a Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2021 Suspiration, [noun]—a long deep breath or a sigh. The film is a collage of images, newsreels, bodily gestures, texts and sounds collected over four years. The structure and the score of the film are comprised of the body’s audible release of liquid and air; enmeshed utterances and ir/regular vibrations. Within the film a politician meets the echo of urine running down a bowl; a crowd is hushed; a grandmother questions a popular line; a poet testifies and a body contorts itself in pursuit of escape.&nbsp; suspiration is a counter/intuitive mixing of feelings as/towards facts, an experiment in the sounding out of depressive modes, breathless atmospheres and desire(s) as felt through despair, loss, and so love. <img width="6500" height="4333" width_o="6500" height_o="4333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1041640f596db47d31a35ea1f395fa297c316f750cf72e647a408260630b913/Slow-Breath-54---Image-Credit-Matt-Pickering-2021.jpg" data-mid="224569811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1041640f596db47d31a35ea1f395fa297c316f750cf72e647a408260630b913/Slow-Breath-54---Image-Credit-Matt-Pickering-2021.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46393534adfbd2dfb878a1f684bf180c013337d0f7eb964cbd45f251b1205acc/Slow-Breath-3-Image-Credit-Matt-Pickering-2021.jpeg" data-mid="224569807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46393534adfbd2dfb878a1f684bf180c013337d0f7eb964cbd45f251b1205acc/Slow-Breath-3-Image-Credit-Matt-Pickering-2021.jpeg" /> installation view,slow breath, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, 2021, Photo: Matt Pickering https://camarataylor.com/exhibitions Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:29:45 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/exhibitions SELECTED EXHIBITIONS [mouthfeel] Tramway,&nbsp; Glasgow, 2024backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022&nbsp; a rant! a reel!, Cubitt Gallery, London, 2021 &nbsp;slow breath, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, 2021 something vague and irrational, Celine Gallery, Glasgow, 2019 Flourish, The Gallow Gate, Glasgow, 2017 https://camarataylor.com/mouthfeel-2 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:28:26 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/mouthfeel-2 [mouthfeel], Tramway, Glasgow, 2024Commissioned by Glasgow International with production and presentation support from Tramway <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08e09f8e988fe5c4551f99363a6f45d6db154e96a925fa04c642a7cf861c9643/000041.jpg" data-mid="234232435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08e09f8e988fe5c4551f99363a6f45d6db154e96a925fa04c642a7cf861c9643/000041.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f234f4dded9d46aad30a781cd9e57daedf4206223e6341292c6ddf4627fa95d5/000065-2.jpg" data-mid="234232434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f234f4dded9d46aad30a781cd9e57daedf4206223e6341292c6ddf4627fa95d5/000065-2.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" 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height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" data-mid="234232438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/912c38db61b8197fa37fdb500e69ffa62c561e3c142a95d01e5a280e219cc3cf/000057-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" data-mid="234232440" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f253f0cc8b619e2da034dbffaec4b8797d46b01f6d5477e00e26131f2037d683/000045.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5bea2d43fb236097515d6b032491d29a4c8104b3b402c30a730d1e2f25eb93b/000005alt.jpg" data-mid="234232427" border="0" 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height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8649d00382c910d92b771db2379edaa5be2d87b3e5e108c498a134b6421b91d5/000048.jpg" data-mid="234232430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8649d00382c910d92b771db2379edaa5be2d87b3e5e108c498a134b6421b91d5/000048.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1d657b9a755f87c56952b5826d44a21661bbb90b003bed10099f86c27cf7acf/000053-1.jpg" data-mid="234232432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1d657b9a755f87c56952b5826d44a21661bbb90b003bed10099f86c27cf7acf/000053-1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/908abfc64c8e2089c42a56fdd26e3814a465097989e6d185d4252781cb7160ff/000054-1.jpg" data-mid="234232436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/908abfc64c8e2089c42a56fdd26e3814a465097989e6d185d4252781cb7160ff/000054-1.jpg" /> [mouthfeel] presented a series of works forged through new and old collaborations with artists 皚桐 (Ai Túng) and Sharif Elsabagh, and feminist welding collective Slaghammers. Camara’s practice builds around their research into archival documents, images, and fragments of language. They look particularly to historical traces that register Black presence as a fugitive undercurrent of Scotland’s entanglement with racial capitalism. In objects, reworked images, texts, sound and video, Camara uses methods of material dissolution and failed speech. Images succumb to liquid decay and testimonies fracture, emphasising the visceral qualities of language as a bodily product. [mouthfeel] returns Camara to the physical and social geography of Glasgow as a city engineered around currents of colonial and imperial wealth and violence. Time collapses –from the 19th century widening of the River Clyde to accommodate larger trade ships, to the unnamed man who was chased into the river by police in 2019. In the spaces between the document and its incoherence, Camara’s works reveal the accumulation of sediment and sentiment. Dispersed across the gallery was 皚桐 Aí Túng’s bed of river song, an interweaving tapestry of voices and loops ebbing and flowing through the space. At the intersection and displacement of the aural, visual and tactile, [mouthfeel] brings divergent references into tense relation, suspended but nevertheless on the move: sounds wash, inks run, coins melt, breath waivers, steel rusts, fists clench and rum stains. 皚桐 (Ai Túng)‘s river psalm is availble to listen here. There is an audio described introduction to the exhibition and the exhibition artworks that can be accessed here. Audio Description by Collective Text &amp; SoundScribe, 2024AD Scripting and Recording: Elaine Lilian JosephAD Consultant: Kirin SaeedSound Translation by Collective TextTranslation Consultant: Klarissa Webster Camara Taylor Access Worker: Rowan Markson https://camarataylor.com/backwash-1 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:34:32 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/backwash-1 backwashCollective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022 <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be2db0b51d855604beb6c05e13060ce9a16260eec932c1d3ebdb57ac01bbe763/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---2.jpg" data-mid="224755640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be2db0b51d855604beb6c05e13060ce9a16260eec932c1d3ebdb57ac01bbe763/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---2.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37ed09f9d8b91bf07e3f75fd4e8da717c09d8597741f9bdaf9ca1824a18fb39c/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---7.jpg" data-mid="224755642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37ed09f9d8b91bf07e3f75fd4e8da717c09d8597741f9bdaf9ca1824a18fb39c/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---7.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c165decddd950d62e85efce64f302b1612a100d599eac0edce12e847b781a773/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---3.jpg" data-mid="224755647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c165decddd950d62e85efce64f302b1612a100d599eac0edce12e847b781a773/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---3.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7cfc62fffedefb5b41e05e8613619387e56c8c61f95899ac50ca43509cfc075/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---16.jpg" data-mid="224755665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7cfc62fffedefb5b41e05e8613619387e56c8c61f95899ac50ca43509cfc075/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---16.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef8c48ab29cbc52aeead61ea57c45e7bb30730e927110a2e15475948ce1baa34/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---18.jpg" data-mid="224755666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef8c48ab29cbc52aeead61ea57c45e7bb30730e927110a2e15475948ce1baa34/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---18.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54965253b197722c14d6da9f1dcee4f2ba8fba4590ad746f2838de1b5f716a00/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---9.jpg" data-mid="224755655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54965253b197722c14d6da9f1dcee4f2ba8fba4590ad746f2838de1b5f716a00/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---9.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" data-mid="224755657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/704cba582ee8b2fabbb8fc64224b89e9796c301e6c35b614fcbe311fa477e804/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---5.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" data-mid="236308363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf3c41dc8eac2125b33a2e1630d0252a4c0382718d366eba6d343a1deca42044/Collective-Gallery---Camara-Taylor---Screen-Res---19.jpg" /> backwash can refer to the cleaning of filters, the receding of waves, backward currents or the reverberations of an event. It is also a name for the saliva-infused liquid at the bottom of drinking vessels. These overlapping meanings serve as anchor and guide for an installation that emerges from silt, sediment and the life and collapse of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.Works in backwash have been developed through ongoing collaboration with Sharif Elsabagh, Andrew Black and sound and spatial designer Joseph June Bond, who has produced a new sound work for the exhibition drawing from a shared library of bodies, and bodies of water,.Listen to the sound work here.Read Seán Elder’s commissioned response here. Supported by Creative Scotland and The Elephant TrustPhotos by Tom Nolan https://camarataylor.com/something-vague Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:10:32 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/something-vague something vague and irrational, retreat (Sulaïman Majali &amp; Camara Taylor), Celine Gallery, Glasgow, 2019 <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d9941c69071b492770aa9daa904a9d1c803abbf5d504483eb183a6d36a65aeb/IMG_8571.jpg" data-mid="236308512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d9941c69071b492770aa9daa904a9d1c803abbf5d504483eb183a6d36a65aeb/IMG_8571.jpg" /> something vague and irrational illustrates and/or points to the feelings (as facts), frustrations and propositions that initiated retreat, an ongoing collaborative endeavour between Sulaïman Majali and Camara Taylor. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e07cb464bde94914442494b43822f3868f0d2f71d71286a085c5dc5297554c0/IMG_8580-2.jpg" data-mid="236308527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e07cb464bde94914442494b43822f3868f0d2f71d71286a085c5dc5297554c0/IMG_8580-2.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af24ee02273287facf05d95dfc15e5881fedf35dec7999906ec8f3ad1d31cdc7/TaylorC_screaming-by-citation_2019_Photo-Credit_S-Majali.jpg" data-mid="236308529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af24ee02273287facf05d95dfc15e5881fedf35dec7999906ec8f3ad1d31cdc7/TaylorC_screaming-by-citation_2019_Photo-Credit_S-Majali.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c0cb508435d3a19c1e316ead48c59cee3c9bbfb35f9c53bc19f2bea6a5da16e/IMG_8590.jpg" data-mid="236308507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c0cb508435d3a19c1e316ead48c59cee3c9bbfb35f9c53bc19f2bea6a5da16e/IMG_8590.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c53c691117a5ca1a3a8c0bf60efd68ccb062afc7f67e2e89ef6cf578add1177/IMG_8567.jpg" data-mid="236308533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c53c691117a5ca1a3a8c0bf60efd68ccb062afc7f67e2e89ef6cf578add1177/IMG_8567.jpg" /> installation view, something vague and irrational, Celine Gallery, 2019 Works: screaming by citation; lol ur so drama, 2019, Camara Taylor 2 channel video installation; a precarious hanging; black cling; post-it; text; Auld Lang Syne by The Black on White Affair;&nbsp; A Scottish Landscape by Robert S.Duncanson 1871; African and Caribbeans in Scotland: A socio-geographical study by June Evans 1997; William Davidson and rumours of quartering and quicklime. "that my dear old mother would never know me", 2019, Sulaïman Majali Digital print of Robert Scott Lauder’s painting of David Roberts 1840 (in Arab Dress) without side whiskers, paste; faux gilded frame, mirror, paintings of the Prophet’s Mosque and the Grand Mosque of Makkah Within retreat, both are thinking and questioning the fallout and reverberations through time of ongoing catastrophe(s). Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; which become trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held in the archive. Photo:&nbsp;Sulaïman Majali https://camarataylor.com/text Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:34:32 +0000 camara taylor https://camarataylor.com/text SELECTED TEXTS WRITING/PUBLICATIONS Soft Impressions, Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard &amp; Camara Taylor, publication, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2025 mind how you go, text by Camara Taylor Visual Identities in Art &amp; Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, June 2022 On the cold, text by Camara Taylor,MAP Magazine, April 2021 Reflections, text by Camara Taylor, Crypto-Knitting-Circles Zine SWAP Market, Dec 2019 For Father False, text by Camara Taylor The Babaloose Book, Ed. Lewis Prosser, 2015 PRESS&nbsp; &amp;Pressing Matters, Review by Oluwatobiloba AjayiThe Toe Rag, Issue 05, Spring 2025 Art Reviews| Soft Impressions, Review by Susan MansfieldThe Scotsman, Jan 2025 Glasgow International,&nbsp; Review by Daisy Hildyard, e-flux, June 2024 Glasgow International: Still Caring, Review by Rose Higham-Stainton, Flash Art, June 2024 The Glasgow International artists tackling Scotland’s colonial past, By Harvey Dimond, The Skinny, July 2024 A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Scotland, Chapter by Catherine Spencer.&nbsp; The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History, Ed. Eddie Chambers&nbsp; CAMARA TAYLOR, COLLECTIVE,&nbsp; Review by Maria Howard, Nothing Personal Issue III, Nov 2022No Real Closure: Curating Black Flutures Now,&nbsp; Essay By Languid Hands (Rabz Lansiquot &amp; Imani Mason Jordan) Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display. Exhibition Histories 13., Ed, by Nana Adusei-Poku. London: Afterall. 2022 Spit Spat, Response by Seán Elder,Collective Gallery, Aug 2022 LETTER TO THE SHOW&nbsp; and LETTER TO RAY, Responses by Samra Mayanja, Cubitt Gallery, July 2021review of a rant! a reel!,&nbsp; By Zarina Muhammad The White Pube, Aug 2021 A SERIES OF ESCAPES OF AIR, Response by Saoirse Amira AniseThe Newbridge Project, Nov 2021 The Conch #21 w/ OLAMIJU FAJEMISIN, SAMRA MAYANJA &amp; CAMARA TAYLOR, Essay by Olamiju Fajemisin, The South London Gallery, Mar 2021 Exploring EAF’s Associate Artist Programme,&nbsp; By Adam Benmakhlouf, The Skinny, Aug 2021 Camara Taylor on their new exhibition Flourish, Interview by Adam Benmahklouf, The Skinny