Barbara Taylor’s work, though also concerned with archives, is more domestic and quietly personal, a series of bookworks that archive her personal life from a variety of different perspectives – all the bookmarks in her library, all the beds she has slept in, all the views from her kitchen window over a period of a year. Each of these books not only tells a story – but reveals the starting points for many other stories potentially nesting within it; through a series of very simple strategies Taylor reveals the complex web of experiences that make up a life, a richness that is dormant with in the everyday, produced through an obsessive process of recording and ordering and re-ordering.



Joanna Lowry 2010