Peter Taylor's life as a publisher took an unexpected detour after he browsed through the airline magazine on a flight to Athens ....... arriving at his friends' house in the city, he chopped up the magazine, and with the aid of some flour paste provided by his friend Amalia, he spent the afternoon making a collage. Looking back, he has no doubt that this first attempt at collage came out of his long-standing admiration for the work of Kurt Schwitters, the acknowledged master of the genre. For Peter, a gentle new obsession took hold....

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Limiting himself to only the basics of paper, card, fabric and the occasional piece of wood or metal – mostly found materials, but also the sentimental remnants from previous generations of his family, as well as the artefacts from his own life – over the years Peter has continued to make collages, and he has brought them together here in the hope that they might be of interest to others, and especially to fellow collagists as they practise their craft, their art.

 

Contact: petertaylorcollage@gmail.com​

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Bio​

Peter Taylor was the director and owner of Taylor Graham Publishing, a leading UK publisher of books and journals on information technology, information management and educational subjects. A graduate of the University of Liverpool, University College London, and the University of Wales, Peter’s early professional work in the libraries of the University of London and the City of London Polytechnic was followed by his appointment to the Research and Development Department of Aslib (The Association of Special Libraries). At Aslib he worked on a number of research studies sponsored by The British Library, London, and on consultancy projects for UK and other European organizations.

 

On his appointment as editor of the Journal of Documentation in 1980, Peter also assumed responsibility for the management of Aslib’s book publishing programme, and for several years was also active in the work of the Institute of Information Scientists (UK), for whom he was a founding editor of the Journal of Information Science. In 1984 he established Taylor Graham Publishing, where he developed an extensive list of books and journals on key library and information themes. He has been actively involved in a wide range of publishing projects covering such areas as information networking, academic librarianship, multimedia systems, the internet, information research, and the new learning technologies.

 

Journals created by Peter Taylor included the New Review of Academic Librarianship, the International Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems, the Journal of Applied Expert Systems, the New Review of Film and Television Studies, the Journal of Document and Text Management, the New Review of Information Behaviour Research, the International Journal of Information and Library Research, the Journal of Economic and Social Intelligence, and others.