Taylor Whigham is an artist, craftsperson, and writer living and working between Amsterdam, NL and Brooklyn, NY. Their work is informed by a research practice, which explores how decolonial ethics can be applied on the personal, communal, and environmental levels. Through this research, they aim to imagine and actualise sovereign indigenous futures.
taylor reneé whigham (a.k.a. august.), is a Black American artist and craftsperson hailing from West Palm Beach, Florida. They began their studies at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) with an influential three years of studying first architecture, then industrial design. During these studies, they received a year-long scholarship from UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY) that provided vocational training and introduced them to glassblowing as a career. After a semester on exchange, they decided to transfer schools and complete their studies in the Large Glass Department of Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL). They are now based primarily in Amsterdam, NL, where they nurture their material and conceptual research from a private studio.
