Stewart Taylor - CV
Through my Tree Portraits series, I explore individual specimens as sites of structure, history, and environmental memory. Beginning in 2020 with simple gelliprint observations of London’s street trees, the work has since evolved into layered monoprint, drawing, and sculpted surface. I aim to balance close observation with a material depth, while contributing to the ongoing development of contemporary, experimental print practice.
I have exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including multiple presentations at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Wells Art Contemporary, and the RA Summer Exhibition. Works are held in collections including the V&A Museum Print Collection and Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland. At the most recent edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, I was selected as one of “The Ones to Watch.”
Alongside exhibition activity, my practice engages directly with environmental advocacy. Recent projects have raised over £4,000 for the Woodland Trust and Rewilding Britain, and most recently over £1,000 for Moor Trees through a dedicated series of 50 monoprints celebrating our temperate rainforests.
As an Associate Member, I would bring an established, research-led print practice, institutional exhibition experience, and a sustained commitment to positioning arboreal art within contemporary ecological discourse.
Works in Collection;
V&A Museum Print Collection – Multiple Prints
Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland – ‘The Tree Portraits II’
Selected Upcoming & Recent Exhibtions;
Sandridge Barton/ROAM – Sandridge Barton, Devon – July 2026
Contemporary British Printmakers – Delamore Arts, Devon – May 2026
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair – Woolwich Works, London – Nov 2025
The Affordable Art Market – Kingsbridge, Devon – July 2025
‘River of Oaks’ – Flavel Arts Centre, Devon. Oct 2024
Wells Art Contemporary – Wells Cathedral, Somerset. Aug 2024
Make Southwest Annual – Jubilee Gallery, Bovey Tracy. Jul – Nov 2024
‘Flow: Moor to Shore’ – Kingsbridge, Devon. July 2024
Derby Print Open - June 2024
Contemporary British Printmakers at Delamore Arts – Delamore House, Devon. May 2024 & 2025
Voting Schmoting – We Are Inky Fingers, Hackney Wick, London. March 2024
‘Unbounded’ Online – Florence Contemporary Art Gallery. Feb 2024
‘Back to Nature’ Online – Blue Koi Gallery. Feb 2024
Thelma Hulbert Gallery Open – Honiton, Devon. Sept/Oct 2023
Ironbridge Fine Arts Print Open – Ironbridge. Sept/Nov 2023
English Riviera Summer Open – Artizan Collective, Torquay, Devon. Jul/Aug 2023
‘In Natura’ – Echo’s Studios, Sao Paulo, Brazil. June 2023
‘London Trees’ – The Arborealists & The Urban Contemporary Group - Lauderdale
House, Highgate, London. Mar-Apr 2023
The 16th Print Triennale Graphica Creativa - Jyväskylä , Finland. Sept 2022 – Jan 2023
‘Tree of Life’, The Arborealists - Stanton Guildhouse, Stanton, Gloucestershire. Jan/Feb 2022
Urban-Rural Group Show - Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset. Sept/Oct 2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2018 (Invited Artist) & 2019-2024
RA Summer Show - Royal Academy, 2018 & 2019
National Original Print Exhibition – Bankside Gallery 2014-16, 2018
The Masters: Screen & Stone – Bankside Gallery 2018
Recent Published Articles, Interviews;
Printmaking – A Step-by-Step Studio Guide – ‘Gelliplate Printmaking’ – Jenny Mason-Gunning/Bloomsbury 2026
Printmaking Today – ‘Gelli on a Plate’ - Summer 2024
Broadleaf Magazine [Woodland Trust] – ‘The Old Man of Calke’ Fundraiser – Spring 2024
Trees Outside of Woodland: an exploration of social & cultural values photo essay - Lestari, DEFRA & Forest Research – Autumn 2023
ArtEtcetera – Nov/Dec Issue 2023
The Big Orange Book 2 – Artrepreneur 2023
ArtSeen Magazine – Autumn Issue 2023
Wild Roof Journal – Sept 2023, Issue #22
Artistcloseup.com – Interview June 2023 - https://www.artistcloseup.com/blog/interview-stewart-taylor
Stewart Taylor | The Tree Portraits | People of Print May 2023 -
https://www.peopleofprint.com/solo-artist/stewart-taylor-the-tree-portraits/
Interview, with Gita Joshi from the Curator’s Salon Stewart Taylor — The Curator’s
Salon March 2021
https://www.thecuratorssalon.com/blog/stewart-taylor
Awards & Prizes;
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025 – The Ones to Watch
Winner Creativepool Artist of 2024
Honourable Mention Award – ‘Back to Nature’ Online – Blue Koi Gallery , Feb 2024
Honourable Mention Award – English Riviera Summer Open 2023
‘Collector’s Picks’ Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023 & 2025 – Jack Bullen’s Top Picks
Winner of Artrepreneur.com ‘Sublime’ Open Call & ‘Hot Off the Press: Printmaking’ Open Calls 2022
Great Art Prize, National Original Print Exhibition, 2018
Charity Fundraising;
’25 for 25 — Plant the Future with Moor Trees’ Crowdfunder (Dec 2025) – over £1000 raised.
The Woodland Trust (2022 & 2023/24) & Rewilding Britain (2022) – over £4500 raised in total.
2025 Crowdfunder – ‘Help Build the Print Shed’ raised £11,500 towards new studio in Dartmouth
Education;
1991-94, UCA Farnham, Fine Art Print; BA Hons 2:1
Residency;
Feb/Mar 1998; Kaleidoscope Programme (c/o Curwen Print Studio/Stanley Jones) – Residency at West Cork Arts Centre (Skibbereen) & Cork Printmakers (Cork City).
Introducing/Teaching local Schoolchildren & Residents to Printmaking, culminating with solo show at WSAC.
Teaching;
2003 KIAD, Canterbury; Graphic Fine Art, Printmaking 1st Year, introduction to printmaking techniques & The Small Print Project.
Previous Studios;
East London Printmakers; Keyholder – 2007 – 2018 [Chairman 2008] - project manager for the studio move from Warburton Road to Mile End in 2016.
Artichoke; Keyholder – 1997 – 2001