About

Jason deCaires Taylor (b. 1974) is a sculptor, environmentalist and professional underwater photographer. Taylor graduated from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture. Taylor became the first of a new generation of artists to shift the concepts of the Land art movement into the realm of the marine environment.

His permanent site-specific sculptural works are predominately exhibited underwater in submerged and tidal marine environments, exploring modern themes of conservation and environmental activism. Over the past 15 years, Taylor has been one of the first to consider the underwater realm as a public art space and is best known for his numerous large-scale underwater “Museums” and “Sculpture Parks”. Taylor gained international recognition in 2006 with the creation of the world’s first underwater sculpture park, situated off the West coast of Grenada in the West Indies. Moilinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic. The park was instrumental in the government declaring the site a National Marine Protected Area. Taylor has gone on to produce over 1,000 public terrestrial and underwater sculptures worldwide, which are visited by thousands of visitors each week. 

Other major projects include MUSA (Mexico), Ocean Atlas (Bahamas), Museo Atlantico (Spain), The Rising Tide (UK), Nest (Indonesia), Nexus (Norway), Coralarium (Maldives), Ocean Siren (Australia) The Coral Greenhouse (Australia), Cannes Underwater Museum (France), and MUSAN (Cyprus). The works are constructed using pH neutral, environmentally sensitive materials to instigate natural growth and the subsequent changes intended to explore the aesthetics of decay, rebirth and metamorphosis. Taylor’s pioneering public art projects are not only examples of successful marine conservation, but works of art that seek to encourage environmental awareness, instigate social change and lead us to appreciate the breathtaking natural beauty of the underwater world.

Taylor has received numerous sculpture and photography awards, is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptures, an Ocean Ambassador to DAN, an Ocean Exemplar of The World Ocean Observatory and a featured TED speaker. He has been recognised for both creativity and inspirational leadership in recent years by Fast Company and Global Leaders Today. Taylor was awarded The Global Thinker Award by Foreign Policy and was described as the Jacques Cousteau of the art world.

 

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Grenada Listed in Top 
25 Wonders of the World

TED Speaker

Eco-Museum One of The World’s 100 Greatest Places

Ocean Ambassador MUSA Listed in The World’s Most Unique Travel DestinationMember of The Royal Society of Sculptors

Order of the Nation Grenada

 

100 Most Creative
People in Business

100 Global Leaders 2022

Global Thinker Award

Most Underwater Sculptures in the World


Ocean Exemplar