ART: NOAH TAYLOR MAKES HIS ARTISTIC LONDON DEBUT

"Noah Taylor's haunted portraits stare back at us and we can't help but be touched by their strange, blank beauty." - Nick Cave

You may recognise him from fantasy TV hit Game of Thrones, or Richard Ayowade’s indie movie marvel Submarine, but Noah Taylor has more talents up his sleeve than acting alone. He makes his artistic debut in London at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery of Soho this month.

The exhibition, titled People are Strange, gives us a look into the mind of a man who describes himself as a ‘non-committed catholic neo situationist’. Taylor’s cartoonish style renders a monochrome world of child-like and almost crude ink drawings on paper, introducing us to strange characters in a sparse and symbolic world. Evoking the illustrations of a story book, each bleak and arresting scene captures the imagination, despite the elemental primitiveness of Taylor’s technique and materials of choice.

Easily instilling an uneasy and chilling quality, the pieces draw is in to different plane of existence, much like the cartoons of Tim Burton.

Religious art, comic books and popular culture are obvious reference points for the Australian-born artist. GQ hailed 2014 as the year at Taylor’s visual art outshines his acting work. We shall have to wait and see.

People are Strange is on at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery in Soho until the 5^th of April.

ART: NOAH TAYLOR MAKES HIS ARTISTIC LONDON DEBUT

"Noah Taylor's haunted portraits stare back at us and we can't help but be touched by their strange, blank beauty." - Nick Cave

You may recognise him from fantasy TV hit Game of Thrones, or Richard Ayowade’s indie movie marvel Submarine, but Noah Taylor has more talents up his sleeve than acting alone. He makes his artistic debut in London at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery of Soho this month.

The exhibition, titled People are Strange, gives us a look into the mind of a man who describes himself as a ‘non-committed catholic neo situationist’. Taylor’s cartoonish style renders a monochrome world of child-like and almost crude ink drawings on paper, introducing us to strange characters in a sparse and symbolic world. Evoking the illustrations of a story book, each bleak and arresting scene captures the imagination, despite the elemental primitiveness of Taylor’s technique and materials of choice.

Easily instilling an uneasy and chilling quality, the pieces draw is in to different plane of existence, much like the cartoons of Tim Burton.

Religious art, comic books and popular culture are obvious reference points for the Australian-born artist. GQ hailed 2014 as the year at Taylor’s visual art outshines his acting work. We shall have to wait and see.

People are Strange is on at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery in Soho until the 5^th of April.