Bio

Shefon Taylor is a self-taught collagist and graphic designer from Wilmington, Delaware whose work is centered on themed narratives concerning memory, history and the futuristic revival of Black womanhood.

Interrogating personal definitions of femininity and womanhood, Taylor began her creative journey as a visual artist in 2017, using found images to explore the opaque and poetic narrative to arrive at an understanding of her present life, the lives of the women before her, and the possibilities of an imagined future. Her process and practice are informed by the discovery and affirmation, “may the women with whom I share blood, speak my name and never find themselves alone.”

Statement

In art and practice, I want to dispel the myth that I am the first — to disburden myself of the belief that I am alone. I remember my own blood; a legacy of artisans and makers and creators and crafters

I work with collage because of its impulse, delicacy, and compromise. The found objects willingness to become a new thing are a perfect medium to explore the meaning of remembering oneself from fragments of the past to create a new future.