James Tylor

About the work

The TAKEAWAY exhibition takes place at Canberra Contemporary from 12 September-24 October 2026 and features works by Marley Dawson, Keg de Souza, Gianna Christella Hayes, Gillian Kayrooz, Zora Pang, Janhavi Salvi, and James Tylor. Presented as part of Canberra Art Biennial 2026, the show is accompanied by a public program at multiple venues across Canberra themed around gastropoetics, food security, and diaspora eating imaginaries. Included in the show is a pop-up reading area by Magenta House featuring publications and ephemera that serve as ‘side-dishes’ to the themes explored by the participants of this project. Ultimately, TAKEAWAY takes a regenerative approach into why and how we eat, while digesting fraught histories and ecologies of land, water and labour.

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About the artist

James Tylor is a multidisciplinary visual artist with Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry. Through photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, scent and food, Tylor’s work interrogates the colonial history of 19th century Australia and its continual effect on present day issues surrounding cultural identity and the environment, focusing most specifically on impacts on Kaurna Indigenous culture from the Adelaide Plains region of South Australia. His work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, and is in esteemed collections such as Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum (Charlottesville, Monacan Indian Nation VA, USA) and National Portrait Gallery (London UK) among others.