Taylor Steel (b.1999) is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land. Working within an expanded print and photo-based practice, Steel examines marginal and discarded spaces that exist in the gaps and peripheries of metropolitan landscapes. Drawn to the uncanny, her work depicts cropped and warped spectral images of residual and ambiguous space.

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Steel’s practice ranges from representational photography to abstracted images, utilising analogue and digital copying and distortion processes. Decay is approached not only as a subject encountered in the field but also as a methodology– enabling a departure from the indexical and mimetic photograph to the abstracted and degraded image. In the studio, material experimentation with unconventional substrates and unstable processes transform and distort the imagery in an attempt to distance it from traditional representation. The final works are layered both materially and conceptually, resisting resolution and challenging conventional modes of photographic representation.