Teaching art by day and creating art by night, Taylored Curiosities produces mixed media creatures based in fictional, quirky worlds, sprung from the depths of her bizarre imagination.
With a strong emphasis on anxiety support and mental health awareness, she brings to life a variety of beings that help to reduce the stresses of every day life and to highlight some of the struggles we aren’t always encouraged to talk about.
We are stronger together.
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QUALIFICATION
MA Fine Art: Arts University Bournemouth 2021 (currently studying)
Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy 2018
Level 5 Teaching Diploma QTLS: London 2015
Model Making Short Course: Bournemouth University 2013
Illustration and Print Degree (Distinction): Plymouth College of Art 2012
EXPERIENCE
2009 – Present
Artist
- Designing and creating a range of mixed media art works that have featured in exhibitions and galleries worldwide.
2014 – Present
Art Educator
- Teaching KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 and FE/Higher Education
- Design and deliver lessons on a variety of art styles and methods including Art History and Contextual Studies
- Education Seminars: Guest Speaker at Southern Rocks 2018
- Art Curriculum Design 2020
AWARDS
Designer Toy Awards Finalist 2016: Best Non Plush Design
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
Subconscious Dwellings: ONCA Gallery, Brighton, 27th October? 2017
Group
Flatties 10 Year Anniversary Show, Toy Con UK, March 2020
Nessie Show, Martian Toys, Toy Con UK, March 2019.
MINI, Mize Gallery, Florida, March 2019.
I Am Board 2018, Toy Con UK, London, April 2018
Boo: A Spooktacular Show, Toy Con UK, London, April 2018
Lysistrata: An all female show, Mothership Art Gallery, Philadelphia, February 2018
Play for Change, Medialia Gallery, New York, Nov 2017
Identity Crisis – Crazy Shark Custom Show, Martian Toys Booth #1123, Dcon, California, Nov 2017
Baby Colossus Show,? Martian Toys Booth, Toy Con UK, London, April 2017
Customania, The Toy Chronicle Booth, Toy Con UK, London, April 2017
Resin is King Series 3, Tenacious Toys Booth, Comic Con, New York, 2016
Open House, We Make (Design Week), Tillamook Station, Portland, Oregon, 2016
Technology: Utopian or dystopian Retro-futurism, Fray Pedro Subercaseaux Chamber, Chile, 2015
Modified Wool Show (curated by myself and Dan Perry), RayGun Comics, London, 2014
Around the World in 80 Toys, Espionage Gallery, Adelaide, 2014
Toy Heist Custom Art Toy Exhibition, The Concrete Gallery, Amsterdam, 2013
Dream in Plastic Custom Show, Dream in Plastic, New York, 2013
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Swoon Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013
Dragons Show, Sho Gallery, Cardiff, 2012
Heavy Metal Qee Show, Forbidden Planet, London, 2012
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ART CONVENTIONS
Toy Art UK 2018
PUBLISHED WORK & ARTICLES
‘My Vulnerability’, Healers Magazine, February 2020
‘Curiouser and Curiouser’, Clutter Magazine Interview (Issue 39), July 2016
Oh My Handmade Interview, 9 Stories from working women, 2015
Stuffed Magazine, Winter 2013
Stuffed Magazine, Winter 2012
Stuffed Magazine, Winter 2011
Pylon Press, Support Structures, 2011
Stuffed Magazine, Summer 2011
Cranky Yellow, Compendium of Artists, 2010
Read a bit more about me here: Little person, Big emotion