What technical and material processes and procedures are used by Jason deCaires Taylor when creating artworks?
Taylor’s artworks are essentially artificial reefs, formed of carefully manufactured sculptures installed at various locations around the world. Each sculpture is created using non-toxic, pH neutral marine grade cement, free from harmful pollutants, becoming an integral part of the local ecosystem.
Where is Jason deCaires from?
Dover, United Kingdom
Jason deCaires Taylor/Place of birth
Where is Jason deCaires Taylor?
Taylor is currently based on the island of Lanzarote, Spain, working on a major new underwater museum for the Atlantic Ocean.
How does the sea change the underwater sculptures?
The sculptures grow and change over time as life forms such as coral eggs, carried by seawater, attach themselves and transform the human forms into something “somewhat uncanny, with eyes closed and no evidence of breathing — perhaps asleep, resting, or even ghostly,” as Jue writes.
Why are there statues at the bottom of the ocean?
Across the world statues have been sunk into the oceans for a variety of reasons—as memorials, to offer protection to a fragile marine environment, or simply as art. Colored with algae and populated by coral, some of the statues have become tourist destinations in their own right.
Where are Jason deCaires Taylor’s sculptures?
The Cancún Underwater Museum (Museo Subacuático de Arte, known as MUSA) holds more than 485 of Taylor’s submerged sculptures and 30 land-based pieces. It is located off the coast of Cancún and the western coast of Isla Mujeres.
Who created the underwater sculpture in Grenada?
sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor
One of the most magical is snorkeling or diving the Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada’s Molinere Bay. The park was designed in 2007 by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, who later created similar installations around the world.
When was Jason de Caires Taylor born?
August 12, 1974 (age 47 years)
Jason deCaires Taylor/Date of birth
When was Ocean Atlas built?
2006
In 2006, Taylor founded and created the world’s first underwater sculpture park. Situated off the coast of Grenada in the West Indies it is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic.
What does Jason deCaires Taylor do in the ocean?
For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse — it’s an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the sea and transformed from lifeless stone into vibrant habitats for corals, crustaceans and other creatures.
Why did Jason deCaires Taylor do the vicissitudes?
In “Vicissitudes,” deCaires Taylor depicts a ring of children to convey the importance of nurturing a sustainable space for them to grow. Are we doing enough to protect nature’s greatest treasures]
When did Jason deCaires Taylor move to Mexico?
In 2009, I moved to Mexico and started by casting local fisherman. This grew to a small community, to almost an entire movement of people in defense of the sea. And then finally, to an underwater museum, with over 500 living sculptures. Gardening, it seems, is not just for greenhouses.
How big is Jason deCaires Taylor’s wall?
Jason deCaires Taylor, 2017, pH neutral cement, fibres, aggregates, dimensions variable, 41 life-size figures, 30m x 4m wall © 2017, courtesy of the artist and CACT Lanzarote. Location: Lanzarote, Canary Islands