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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ross Taylor, Wine dark U, 2018-2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ross Taylor, Wine dark U, 2018-2022
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Ross Taylor

Wine dark U, 2018-2022
Oil on linen
120 x 90 cm
47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in.
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Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson. Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington.
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The background smoothly gradients from fresh spring green to a crimson lake red stain but is never sweet, overlaid with a brio of lines around amoebic shapes and mottled texture....
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The background smoothly gradients from fresh spring green to a crimson lake red stain but is never sweet, overlaid with a brio of lines around amoebic shapes and mottled texture. 


The title is drawn from a collection of Robert Aickman’s strange, visionary stories The Wine-Dark Sea with the artist’s substitution of the U to represent urine: a bastardisation of all that is weird within us and all that leaves us. Like Aickman’s writing there is sensitivity in Taylor’s handling of materials drawing us into nuance and shade.


The painting is oil on linen and a closer inspection reveals the archaeology of this canvas over the artist’s revisitings of many years, which has been scored, scraped to the weave as texture or fallen in places into holes left as dark voids.

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Exhibitions

By the Skin of Our Teeth (2022), Brooke Benington, London

Literature

The Wick, Spotlight Interview with Ross Taylor (online)

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