Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE

born 1967

In Tate Britain

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Biography

Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson (née Taylor-Wood, born 4 March 1967) is an English filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists.

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Artworks

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Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Brontosaurus

1995
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Killing Time

1994
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Soliloquy II

1998
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Soliloquy I

1998
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Red

2000

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Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Red Snow

1997

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Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE [no title]

1994

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Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Wanderer Above the Sea of Dreams

2016

Film and audio

Sam Taylor-Wood: Artist’s Talk

Sam Taylor-Wood talked to Tim Marlow, editor of Tate magazine, about her work.

Features

Tate Etc

Objects That Speak for Themselves

Chris Fite-Wassilak

Since the birth of humans as sentient beings, we have believed in the animistic nature of things – of plants ...
Tate Etc

A matter of time

T.J. Demos

The ability to play with time, stretching and quickening it is a distinctively modern phenomenon, since the advent of photography ...
Tate Papers

Authenticity, Change and Loss in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Installations

Pip Laurenson

This paper focuses on three concepts central to the theory of conservation: authenticity, change and loss. These terms are explored ...