WENDY TAYLOR

Biography 1962-67 St. Martin’s School of Art, London 1980-85 Member of CNAA Fine Art Board 1981-99 Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1982-84 External Assessor London University 1982- Member of the Court of the Royal College 1984-88 Member of Morley College Council 1985-88 Design Consultant Basildon Development Corporation 1985-93 Specialist Advisor CNAA 1987-91 Committee for Art & Design CNAA 1986-88 Design Consultant Commission for the New Towns 1989-93 Design Consultant London Borough of Barking & Dagenham 1989-90 Member of Project Team for Cardiff Bay Public Realm Study 1989-90 Member of Advisory Group of the Polytechnics & Colleges Funding Council 1989-98 London Docklands Design Advisory Panel 1993-2011 Trustee of LAMA 1997-2003 Design Consultant London Borough of Barking & Dagenham 1999-00 Member of Council, Royal Society of British Sculptors 2005-07 Design Panel Member – Thames Gateway Area, Kent

Awards 1964 Walter Neurath Award 1965 Pratt Award 1966 Sainsbury Award 1977 ‘Duias na Riochta’ (Kingdom Prize) Gold Medal at the Listowel Graphics Exhibition, County Kerry, Eire 1977 Arts Council Award 1978 First Prize Silk-screen, Barcham Green Print Competition 1988 Commander of the British Empire 1989 Fellow of the Zoological Society 1993 Fellow of Queen Mary College, University of London 1994 Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 2002 Civic Trust Partnership Award, Chase Green, Enfield 2004 Building of the Year Award, Architectural Sculpture 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Solo Exhibitions 1970 Axiom Gallery, London 1972 Angela Flowers Gallery, London 1974 24th King’s Lynn Festival, Norfolk 1974 World Trade Centre, London 1975 Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1976 Oxford Gallery, Oxford 1976 Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin 1979 Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin 1986 ‘Building Art – The Process’, The Building Centre Gallery, London Solo Exhibitions, cont. 1992 Austin, Desmond & Phipps, London 1998 ‘Art and Engineering’ The Osborne Group, London 2005 ‘The Seed Series’ Cass Sculpture Foundation Gallery, London 2009 ‘The Seed Series’ Canary Wharf, London

[The artist exhibited in over 100 group shows between 1964-1981.]

Films 1970 Wendy Taylor – Sculpture – Southern Region Television 1988 Half-hour Documentary – South Bank Show – London Weekend Television

Monograph 1992 ‘Wendy Taylor’ written by Edward Lucie-Smith. Published by Art Books International

Public Collections Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Arts Council of Great Britain. British Council International Travelling Collection. Leicestershire Education Authority Collection for Schools and Colleges. Greater London Council Golder’s Hill Park, London. Borough of Camden, London. Southern Arts Association. P & O Shipping Lines. City of Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand. Guildhall of St. George, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Ulster Museum, Ireland. Royal Palace, Qatar. World Trade Centre, London. Gordon Lampart Collection, Eire. Leicester Museum, Leicestershire. Dudley Museum, Dudley. Lunds Museum, Goteborg, Sweden. Geffrye Museum, London. Ipswich Museum, Suffolk. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. PepsiCo Collection, New York, USA. The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Design of Awards 1983 Bronze Medal, Arc Art E.S.A.B. 1985 Docklands Business Enterprise Award 1986 ‘Art and Work Award’ for corporate art collection, won by B.O.C. 1989-95 Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times ‘Building of the Year Award’ 1989 Silk Scarf ‘For Rosie’, limited edition for Zoological Society, London 1990 Bayer Award for ‘Colour in Architecture’ 1996-2004 Royal Fine Art Commission Trust/BSkyB ‘Building of the Year Award’

Commissions 1969-70 The Travellers Lord and Lady Beaumont of Whitley, Hampstead, London 1970-71 Gazebo Sir Peter Hall, Wallingford, Berkshire 1970-71 William Servaes, Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1971 Triad Somerville College, Oxford 1971-72 Gazebo Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, Tarry Town, New York USA 1972-73 Timepiece St Katherine’s Dock, London [Listed Grade II 2004] 1977-78 Calendula Earl Shilton Community Centre, Leicestershire 1979-80 Octo Milton Keynes Development Corporation, City Centre, Buckinghamshire [Listed Grade II 2016] 1979-80 Counterpoise Gibbons Dudley, Birmingham 1980 Compass Bowl Basildon Development Corporation, Essex 1980-81 Sentinel Redland House, Reigate, Surrey 1981 Canterbury Relief Wiltshiers Limited for Canterbury, Kent Commissions, cont. 1981-82 Equatorial Sundial Telephone Rentals Limited, Bletchley 1982 Essence City Centre, Milton Keynes Development Corporation, Bucks 1982-83 Opus Morley College, London 1983 Gazebo Golder’s Hill Park, London 1984-85 Network STC plc, London 1985-86 Geo I and Geo II NFU Mutual & Avon Insurance Group, Stratford-upon-Avon 1985-88 Roundacre Improvement Scheme Phase I Basildon Development Corporation, Essex. To include underpasses (shape, tiling design etc.), paving, layout and landscaping. 1986 Nexus Curver Consumer Products Limited, Corby, Northamptonshire 1986 Landscape ICI Plant Protection Division, Fernhurst, Surrey 1986 Tree of the Wood ICI Plant Protection Division, Fernhurst, Surrey 1986 Pharos East Kilbride Development Corporation, Scotland 1986-87 Ceres ICI Plant Protection Division, Fernhurst, Surrey 1987 Spirit of Enterprise London Docklands Development Corporation, Isle of Dogs, London 1987 Globe Sundial Swansea Maritime Quarter, South Wales 1988 The Whirlies East Kilbride Development Corporation, Scotland 1988 Pilot Kites Norwich Airport 1988 Silver Fountain BOC Cryoplant Division, Guildford, Surrey 1988 Fire Flow Strathclyde Fire Brigade Headquarters, Hamilton, Scotland 1988-90 Armillary Sundial Basildon, Essex 1989 Pharos II East Kilbride Development Corporation, Scotland 1989-90 Roundacre Improvement Scheme Phase II To include underpasses, tiling designs, paving layout, landscaping and precast Animal Fresco 250 feet in length 1989-90 Phoenix Kelvin Industrial Estate, East Kilbride Development Corporation, Scotland 1989-90 Continuum Private Collection, USA 1990 Globe Sundial II Alcan plc for London Zoological Society, Regent’s Park, London 1990 Butterfly Mosaic mural, Barking and Dagenham Council 1990-91 Square Piece Private Collection, Plano, Illinois, USA 1991 Sundial Memorial to Harry Breadley, East End Park, Sheffield 1991 Anchorage Salford Quays, Manchester 1992 Wyvern Primary School, Leicestershire 1993 Railings School of Management, University of Sheffield 1992 Jester Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1994 Window of Opportunity Stained glass panel, St. George’s Church, University of Sheffield 1994 Jester II PepsiCo Collection, New York, USA 1995 Challenge Reebok International Limited, Stockley Park, Middlesex 1995 Equilibrium Coopers & Lybrand, London 1996 Spirit Vann, Hambledon, Surrey 1997 Rope Circle Hermitage Waterside, London 1997 Spirit of Barrow The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria 1998 Waves The Osborne Group, London 1999 Trolius Kentuck Knob, Pennsylvania, USA 1999 Dancer Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London 1999 Dung Beetles Millennium Conservation Building, Zoological Society, Regent’s Park, London 1999 Mariner’s Astrolabe Virginia Settlers Memorial, Brunswick Quay, London Commissions, cont. 1999 Globe View Blackfriars, London 2000 Tortoises with Triangle and Time Holland Park, London 2000 Millennium Fountain New River Loop, Chase Green, Enfield, Middlesex. [Civic Trust Award 2002] 2001 Voyager Cinnibar Wharf, London 2001 Three Reclining Rope Figures GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, Middlesex 2001 Conqueror GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, Middlesex 2002 Through the Loop Pacific Place, Hong Kong 2002 Around the Square Pacific Place, Hong Kong 2002 Chain Piece Hunters Square, Warren, Ohio, USA 2003 Knowledge Library Square, Queen Mary College, University of London [Building of the Year Award, Architectual Sculpture 2004] 2003 Acorn Wall Relief Switch House, Brunswick Wharf, London 2004 Anchor Iron Anchor Iron Wharf, Greenwich, London 2005 Feather Piece Capital East, Royal Docks, London 2005 Gravesham Heritage Eleven Large Tondos, Gravesend, Kent 2006 Silver Fountain II Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA 2007 Square Chain Piece Hillside, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA 2007 Memorial to the Civilians of East London 2nd World War 1939-1945 Hermitage Memorial Garden, Wapping, London 2008 Spirit I Capital West, Royal Docks, London 2009 Running Hares Two pedestrian bridges over A2, Gravesham, Kent 2011 Unity Unison, Euston, London 2013 Swirl Atrium Building, Park Road, Regent’s Park, London