28/05/2026
'CHEWING SCENERY’ - WADE TAYLOR
Wade Taylor is an artist from Perth, Western Australia. Working primarily with paint his practice explores issues surrounding Australian identity, conveying notions of suburbia, nostalgia and the everyday. With a focus on the materiality of paint and the emotive properties of colour and light, works centre on the familiar yet strange qualities to the contemporary Australian landscape.
Taylor has been painting professionally and exhibiting since 2014. Launching with a curated group that won best visual arts show at Perth Fringe Festival of that year, Wade has gone on to have 8 solo shows in both commercial and artist run galleries such as Stala Cgontemporary, Turner Galleries, Spectrum ECU, Paper Mountain and Nyizstor Studios. Throughout he has been exhibiting consistently in group shows locally and interstate, most recently the fantastic In Suburbia: Recent Detours exhibition curated by Gavin Wilson at S.H Ervin Gallery NSW. Taylor has been curated into festivals such as The Fremantle Biennale, Perth Festival in 2020 and also 2022 for Perth Festival at Lawrence Wilson Gallery. Other highlights include large scale commission works for the Art Gallery of WA exhibition A View from Here as well as public art commissions for the City of Kwinana and a two-time Lester Prize finalist. He has been the recipient of awards such as the overall winner of Melville Art Award, Minnawarra Art Award and the City of Rockingham Art Prize. His work is held in many private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Cities of Perth, Melville, Armadale, Joondalup, Stirling and the universities of Western Australia and Edith Cowen.
Twin Peaks 2026 (and detail)
oil on linen
78 x 53cm (framed)
