Wendy Taylor

Wendy Ann Taylor
Wendy Taylor at gallery opening
Education	St Martin's School of Art
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	Modernism
Website	http://wendytaylorsculpture.co.uk/

Wendy Ann Taylor, CBE (born Stamford, 1945) is a sculptor.

Early life and education

Wendy Taylor studied from 1963 to 1967 at the St Martin's School of Art in London. She gained renown for her many sculptures in the public realm, placed throughout the United Kingdom and especially in London.

Career

In 1988, Taylor was awarded Commander of the British Empire. In 1999, she made a new version of the Virginia Settlers Monument at Blackwall, that had been seriously damaged by vandalism.^[1] In 2005, a major exhibition of her work was held at the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood titled The Seed Series. In 2009, this exhibition travelled to Canary Wharf in London. Wendy Taylor lives and works in London, where she has an atelier at the Hermitage Pump House in Wapping, Tower Hamlets, London.

Works

• 1979/80: Octo, Norfolk House, Milton Keynes
• 1982: Essence, Saxon Court, Milton Keynes
• 1983: Gazebo, Golders Hill Park, London Barnet
• 1986: Pharos, East Kilbride (South Lanarkshire)
• 1987: Docklands Enterprise, West Dock/Marsh Lane
• 1987: Globe Sundial Sculpture, Marine Walk, Swansea
• 1994: Jester, Cambridge Sculpture Trails, Cambridge, and the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, USA
• 1997: Rope Circle, Hermitage Basin
• 1997: Spirit of Barrow
• 1999: Dung Beetles, Millennium Conservation Centre, Regent's Park, London
• 1999: Virginia Settlers Monument, Jamestown Way, London (replacement of the 1928 monument)
• 2000: Tortoises with Triangle and Time, Holland Park, London
• 2000: The Millennium Fountain, River Walk, Enfield
• 2001: Voyager, Wapping High Street
• 2003: Knowledge, Library Square, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
• 2006: Sycamore, sculpture garden at Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

References

External links

• Wendy Taylor's webpage
• The artist's page at the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Wendy Taylor, Virginia Settlers Monument

• The artist's page at Cass Sculpture Foundation