about maxine

Maxine Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice combines investigation with experimentation, informed by an interest in archival material, literature, memory, and the processes through which hidden narratives emerge.

Through research-led projects, she explores how histories are constructed, preserved, and retold, often focusing on women whose lives and contributions have been overlooked, misrepresented, or omitted from dominant historical accounts. Rather than treating the archive as a fixed record, she approaches it as an active and contested space shaped as much by absence and silence as by what remains visible.

Drawing on archival fragments, found materials, historical documents, and visual traces, Maxine creates works that invite audiences to reconsider the relationship between memory, history, and representation. Working across a range of media—from intimate works on paper to large-scale installations—she develops layered visual narratives that reveal the complexities of remembrance and the fragility of historical knowledge.

Her recent work centres on the Austrian prima ballerina and choreographer Tilly Losch (1903–1975), exploring themes of embodiment, loss, archival absence, and the ways in which women’s histories can be recovered through artistic practice.