Jason deCaires Taylor

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Jason deCaires Taylor (born August 12, 1974 ) is a British visual artist known for his underwater installations.

Life

Taylor is the son of an English father and a Guyanese mother. He spent part of his childhood in Malaysia , where he learned to dive. In his youth he created graffiti , later he worked as a diving instructor at various diving centers around the world. In 1998 he graduated from Camberwell College of Arts ( University of the Arts London ) with a Bachelor of Arts Honors in sculpture and ceramics. He later learned traditional stone carving at Canterbury Cathedral and worked in event and stage technology for five years.

With this experience, he began to create concrete sculptures in 2006, which he sank in the sea with the aim of creating artificial reefs in the Caribbean .

Taylor is currently founding the Museo Subacuático del Arte (MUSA) ( German: Underwater Art Museum ) in Cancún ( Mexico ).

The US rock singer Eddie Vedder chose Taylor's sculpture The Lost Correspondent as the cover of his solo album Ukulele Songs (2011).

Works

Caribbean - Grenada
  • Vicissitudes , 26 life-size figures, in 5 m water off Grenada
  • The Un-still Life , in 8 m water off Grenada
  • Grace Reef , in 5 m water off Grenada
  • The Lost Correspondent , in 8 m water off Grenada
  • Sienna , in 5 m water depth off Grenada
  • The Fall from Grace , in 6 m water off Grenada
  • TamCC project , in 2 m water depth off Grenada, joint project with the TA Marryshow Community College, 2007
Caribbean - Mexico
  • Hombre en Llamas (Man on Fire) , in 9 m water off Cancun / Isla Mujeres , Mexico
  • El Coleccionista de Sueños (Dream Collector) , in 9 m water depth off Cancun / Isla Mujeres, Mexico
  • La Jardinera del la Esperanza (The Garden of Hope) , in 4 m water depth in front of Punta Nizuc , Mexico
  • La Evolución Silenciosa (The Silent Evolution) , 400 life-size figures, in 9 m water off Cancún / Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 2010–2011
United Kingdom
  • Alluvia , in the Great Stour (river) , near Westgate Bridge in Canterbury
  • Inverted Solitude , inland water at The National Diving and Activities center in Chepstow , 1.5 m water depth

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC Smart Art: Inverted Solitude ( Memento August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 8, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Jason deCaires
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1974