Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood is an English filmmaker and photographer .  Taylor-Wood used to be a sculptor.

Taylor-Wood began exhibiting her artwork in the early 90s . ' In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of Taylor-Wood's work.'

Sam Taylor- Wood is part of the young british artists. She explores 'The split between being and appearance in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict – has always been in the centre of her creative work.'

'Work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict.'

One of her most famous films ; A matter of time.

This takes a simple idea of still life and watching it decay over time. Here Taylor Wood is taking a theme that has been explored in many different mediums.

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What I find extraordinary about it is that you think that nothing is happening and then suddenly it all changes. 

'The ability to play with time, stretching and quickening it is a distinctively modern phenomenon.'

Quotes from Sam Taylor Wood:

'I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.'

Sam Taylor-Wood: When I have an idea it presents itself as one or either; it’s never “this could be a film or should it be a photograph?” When I have the idea, it’s either a photograph or it’s film, and it’s dictated by the idea almost instantaneously.