DAVID TAYLOR
“Beauty needs corruption. Silversmith and designer David Taylor allows his work to be defiled by surprising and unholy fancy. In a world obsessed with status, branding and expense, he develops his ingenious guerrilla-art between exquisite silversmithing, junk aesthetics and elegance. To work in silver is to choose a proud tradition but with that follows conservative expectations. Taylor challenges these expectations; what does exclusive look like, what it can portray? His silver is both serious and amusing, grafted with the souvenirs sentimentality, with pop cultures worthless debris and it disseminates what is important today: reflection, humour and need for something different. Taylor works quickly and intuitively, the desire for movement is strong. "My thoughts always seem to lie a step ahead what I am trying to do."
His industrial design is strikingly concrete. Ideas are drawn to their focal point where expression and function reach a toy-like clarity. While David Taylor's journey of discovery goes on his work continues to tell us about ourselves, about our weaknesses and about our dreams in these days of mass-consumption.”
/Petter Eklund
My workshop and studio is at MADE BY: in the Birkastan district of Stockholm. Here I produce unique applied art objects and short series pieces for private collectors, museums and institutional collections.