Short overview of Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater sculpture installations around the world. Detailing the how the works are transformed and colonised by the marine environment. Features artificial reef installations in Grenada, West Indies, Cancun Mexico, Exumas, Bahamas, Lanzarote, Spain, Gili Islands, Lombok, Thames, London, Oslo, Norway, Maldives, Australia, Cannes France and Cyprus.
Jason deCaires Taylor MRSS (b.1974) is an award winning sculptor, environmentalist and professional underwater photographer. For the past 16 years, Taylor has been creating underwater museums and sculpture parks beneath the waves, submerging over 1,100 living artworks throughout the world’s oceans and seas. Themes explored by these artistic installations include, among others, the climate emergency, environmental activism, and the regenerative attributes of nature. The sculptures create a habitat for marine life whilst illustrating humanity’s fragility and its relationship with the marine world. Taylor’s subjects mainly feature members of the local community, focussing on their connections with their own coastal environments.
Taylor’s work is a collaboration with nature. By using low carbon, pH neutral materials designed to be colonised, the surrounding environment transforms the artworks. Each sculpture is effectively an artificial reef that provides new habitat spaces for a variety of marine life whilst drawing tourists away from natural, fragile areas. The works, which are assimilated by the sea, send a message of regeneration and hope at a time of significant threats to our marine world.
26 апр 2022
