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Katie Taylor

Transitional Objects, 2025

Found Bone, charcoal, thread 3" x 2"

Found objects and ritual meaning. The transformation of the mundane into something imbued with meaning.

Katie Taylor

Transitional Objects, 2025

Katie Taylor

Social Fabric, 2025

Sheet, lamb gut, human hair, needle, coffee table, geodes, Pyrite (fool’s gold), Perspex boxes 60" x 36" x 40"

“Social Fabric” explores the complex issues surrounding homelessness and the fragility of societal support structures.

Katie Taylor

Social Fabric, 2025

Katie Taylor

Left like a Skeleton, 2024

Nettle cordage, photograph, wooden box 1 meter x 1 meter

Left Like a Skeleton explores the overlooked narratives embedded within marginalised spaces surrounding unidentified deaths.

Katie Taylor

Left like a Skeleton, 2024

Katie Taylor

Bound Up Material, 2021

Gelatine Bioplastic 5.5" x 10.5" x 4"

Exploring unidentified human remains by looking at clothing that forensic anthropologists use in the identification of the dead. Shoes embody the idea of transience, the use of gelatine bioplastic directly evidences the fragility of the dead body within the environment and returning it to the soil.

Katie Taylor

Bound Up Material, 2021

Katie Taylor

Lie Down, 2017

Cotton Fabric dyed with coffee 300cm x 70cm

Whilst doing research into forensic anthropology I became fascinated with its use in Bosnia to identify individuals within Mass Graves. This piece is a direct response to this research. ?Lie Down? is an exploration of the progression of the war in Bosnia. It is made from hundreds of torn strips of cotton and linen sheets and table cloths knotted together. During the beginning stages of the war in Bosnia, Muslim?s were expected to wear a white arm band and hang a white flag/sheet on their houses to show that they were Muslims. The top section of my piece is made from white strips of cloth. When segregating men from women, boys were selected and separated based on their height. Boys smaller than 150cm were allowed to remain with their mothers whilst those above 150cm had to leave with their fathers and were certainly sent to their death. My piece of work hangs at exactly 150cm. The lower section of the piece is naturally dyed in coffee. Coffee is a strong symbol of community in Bosnia. Before the war, Bosnian citizens would all drink coffee together whether Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim), Serb or Croat. After the war many Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslim) attempted to move back to their homes to find another family had moved in. They were often offered coffee in their own cups. The piece of work extends onto the floor referencing burial / mass graves / shrouds / death, and is titled ?Lie Down?, the last words spoken to many, before being shot. Forensic teams exhumed cloth ligatures and blindfolds across all of the mass grave sites at Srebrenica. These ligatures and blind folds were often from the same fabric source and this evidence was part of the proof for Genocide during the trials at The Hague

Katie Taylor

Lie Down, 2017

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