Ivana Taylor is an object artist and designer who creates sculptural and functional forms that explore a playful fascination with the rhythmic and meditative process of wrapping and the expressive presence of continuous and interconnecting lines.
Taylor seeks to create objects with a gentle, sensual tactility, transmuting rigid form into objects with soft, fluid and energised bodies through the gentle, meticulous act of wrapping, interlacing, weaving, knotting and stitching. Taylor’s sculptural works express a harmonious tension and balance between the hard interior structure and the soft textile exterior, comprised of built linear structures that are wrapped in cotton and linen.
Her furniture designs are often heavily textured, reflecting a fascination for the role of visually and physically textural objects, to encourage presence by engaging multiple senses. The principles of design-for-disassembly are equally influential to her practice. Using continuous knotting and wrapping to attach and remove upholstery, results in furniture that can be used in its naked form or re-wrapped, engaging a ritual process of binding textile flesh to timber bones.
