KSGoW is delighted to present When was that?, Jackson Taylor’s debut solo exhibition with King Street Gallery on William, Sydney.
‘In a new series of Faux-naïf (false naive) paintings, I recognise and centre the mundane. Each work of acrylic on canvas playfully acknowledges how everydayness – the daily commute, an afternoon swim, or post work ritual – shapes identity (individual and collective) through connections that occur in our banal routines and environments.
The title of the exhibition performs the act of recollection. Driven less by my own biography or experiences in life, I prefer to render intentionally nostalgic scenes, imperfect moments that provoke the subconscious, encouraging the onlooker to adapt their own narrative of events taking place within the picture. My figures are elongated and simplified. The bodies – like actors – are set within partially remembered or fictionalised environments, cinematic moments that are expressed within a stacked picture plane that awkwardly flattens and stretches the conventional viewpoint. These suspended scenes abruptly jolt the subconscious, placing myself, the artist, and each audience member in a shared transitional space of remembering and forgetting.
In this liminal state, previously overshadowed moments of human experience are celebrated with childlike enthusiasm. I’ve delivered a plethora of logos, signage, domestic objects, and banal interior elements that allude to a socialised terminology of meaning, however, in their broad or generalised settings an ambiguity disturbs familiarity. My symbolism and allegories conjure an imagined understanding of what is shared – or disconnected – within the everyday.’
– Jackson Taylor, 2026
Additional catalogue essay by Lachlan Johnson, 2026. Read via the link below.
