Working within an expanded print and photo-based practice, Taylor Steel examines decay and disorder in the marginal, abandoned, and overgrown spaces that exist in the gaps and peripheries of urban landscapes. Drawn to the uncanny, her work depicts cropped and warped glimpses 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 resulting works are layered both materially and conceptually, resisting resolution and challenging conventional modes of photographic representation.
 

Taylor Steel (b.1999) is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land. In 2022 she completed a Master of Fine Art majoring in printmaking at the National Art School.