PEGGY TAYLOR REID

Peggy Taylor Reid is a photographer using both a traditional and an alternative lens. Her work encompasses constructed photographs, concepts, and the natural world in a decades-long investigation of objects as traces and shadows of our physical world. She weaves together an investigation of the ubiquity of post-consumer waste, sustainability, food insecurity and habits of consumption. With a focus on containers, as an extension of the body and our subjective experiences, Taylor Reid explores the life cycles of these objects, and invites viewers to consider their own relationships to them in our current culture of convenience and obsolescence.

Peggy Taylor Reid holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and a B.ED from the University of Toronto. She is an educator, and a long-time member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, and presently is a member and past co-chair of The Red Head Gallery collective. Taylor Reid’s work can be found in private and public collections, most notably the Art Gallery of Peel. She received the N.Y. Photo Curator award for her series (re)pair, the Director’s award for the work Strength from the A Smith Gallery in Texas and 2 honourable mentions for the 12th Julia Cameron Awards in Self-portrait and Digital Manipulation & Collage. Her work has been published in The HAND magazine, Prefix photo and she was a featured photographer in Light Journal 05. Recent exhibitions include Resounding Within the Echoes a group show of gallery artists at the Lonsdale Gallery, and online shows The Portrait (Tussle Projects) curated by Laura Horne and Collage curated by Clare Christie for the B. Aird Gallery in Toronto.

Peggy Taylor Reid currently lives and works in Caledon Ontario and is represented by Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto.

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