Rachel Emily Taylor

EDUCATION

MA Visual Communication
Royal College of Art
In Progress

BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design with Illustration Pathway
University of the Arts London
Graduated with 82%

Art and Design Foundation
Oxford Brookes University
Passed with Merit

AWARDS

2013 ArtSlant Juried Winner – Mixed Media
Shortlisted for the Birth Rites Bi-Annual Award
The Peter Gordon Pickard Travel Bursary, Royal College of Art

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

EXHIBITIONS

2013
Birth Rites, Egg Suite, MEDIACITY UK
WIP, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art

2012
Build Your Own Superhero, the Wellcome Collection
SPACE AQUARIUM 3000ER, The Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art
Adaptation, The Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art
#getinframe, Kings Cross Billboards, London
Interruption, The Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art

2011
crossmedia, Strip Turnhout Festival, Belgium. Funded by the British Council.
Imagined Cities, The Archipelago Works, Sheffield
Hello Stranger, The Pharmacy of Stories, London Fields
Imagined Cities, the London Print Studio

2010
The Anti-Design Festival, London
Standon Calling Festival, Exhibited with “Spoken Ink”
Them & Us, The Rag Factory, London
Super Graphics, London College of Communication
Bronze & Art Exhibition, Emperor Hall, DuBai

2009
Alls Well That Ends Well, London College of Communication
Real Life, Area 10 Peckham

2008
Year 1, Corsica Studios, London

PUBLISHED

“Imagined Cities”
Printed for the London Print Studio by Calverts
May 2011

“Tall Tales”
by Lena Corner in the Sunday Telegraph
22nd of August 2010
click to here read

“Less Common More Sense”
University Magazine
April 2009

FILM SCREENINGS

Oboe Man, a music video for Nothing in Nowhere – Flatpack Film Festival. March 2012
The Old Joint Stock in Birmingham

Grandmother’s Bones – Northern Nights. June 2011.
Open Air Cinema Festival in London

The Bzou – Rich Mix Short Film Sessions, London. March 2011.
A screening alongside Tim Walker’s “The Lost Explorer”

Grandmother’s Bones – Rich Mix Short Film Sessions, London. January 2011
A screening alongside Simon Aeppli and the team from “Straight 8″

EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Speaker at London College of Communication for BA Illustration (2012)

Illustrator at the event ‘Build Your Own Superhero’ by Guerilla Science at the Wellcome Collection, in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Superhuman’ (September 2012)

Art Workshop Leader at the Hoxton Hall Design Agency (2012 – Present)

Creative Expert at the Advice Stop, Victoria & Albert Museum’s “Creative Quarter” (2011)

Illustrator at CAN: Collaborative Arts Network Ltd. (2011)

Prop Assistant on BAFTA award winning Mikey Please’s Music Promo for “TV on the Radio” (2011)

Running Art Education Workshops at the London Print Studio (2010 – 2011)

INTERNSHIPS

londonprintstudio, London: Comic and Narrative Art

onedotzero, London: Organisation of their Film Festival at the BFI

Dandelion & Burdock, London: Filming and editing footage to be used in a VJ set at Koko.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND SOFTWARE

After Effects / Final Cut Pro
Photoshop
Microsoft Office
Screenprint / Monoprint
Aquatint / Etching
Running Art Education Workshops (CRB checked)
Royal College of Art’s Preparing to Teach workshop and Facial Reconstruction with Richard Neave
no.w.here lab’s workshop Super 8mm shooting and colour hand processing
LCC’s short courses in Traditional Animation Techniques and Book Binding Level 1
Drawing Classes at The Ruskin, Oxford University

PERFORMANCE

LAMDA Speaking Verse and Prose Gold Award
LAMDA Solo Acting Gold Award
Voice Over work for No Numbers and Dove Soap
ABRSM Grade 8 Singing
ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory
RADA Shakespeare Certificate
University of London Chamber Choir