The sculptures of Simon Tayler have a strange otherness to them, where they reference the organic shapes familiar in aquatic or simple life. However, the precision of his sculptures suggests something created through manufacture or created outside of wild emotion, but rather through a meditative process that creates its shapes from repetitive principles. There are some contemporary resonances with digital work, though the fact that these are textured, often wooden, gives them an experiential depth, revelatory against the virtuality of CGI. The effect is sublime, mysterious and haunting – it suggests the cosmological and organic processes that exist on scales both around and within us. Something to contemplate amongst the whirlwind of current times.
Press notes: Simon Tayler – Flux
Aleph Contemporary is delighted to present Flux, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Simon Tayler, running from 5 September to 11 October 2025.
Tayler’s practice explores the delicate threshold between the organic and the mechanical, the stable and the unstable, the material and the imagined. Working primarily in wood, he employs an incremental, mathematical process of construction—each adjustment dictating whether a curve extends outward or folds back upon itself. The resulting forms are intricate, fluid, 2 and 3 dimensionally charged with a quirky naturalism.
In Flux, these curving trajectories become metaphors for states of mind: thoughts that cohere with clarity, or else knot and tighten under tension. Tayler’s sculptures are grounded by their points of contact with the floor or wall, yet they seem to listen, transmit, and extend beyond themselves—as if mediating between the inner and outer world.
Technically meticulous and highly time-intensive, Tayler’s works embody rhythm, patience, and reflection. They balance repetition with release, precision with intuition, and mathematical order with the uncertainty of human experience.
Following a successful career in film and television special effects, Tayler returned to his first passion—sculpture—relocating from London to Stroud in 2024. He holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture from Liverpool School of Art, where he was awarded the postgraduate John Moores Scholarship.
Exhibition details:
Flux — Simon Tayler
5 September – 11 October 2025
Aleph Contemporary, Station Road, Stroud, GL5 3AR
Open Fridays & Saturdays, 10am – 4pm and by appointment
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
