I’m Craig Taylor-Broad, a multidisciplinary artist in the UK.
Photography forms the backbone of my work. I’m drawn to the fragile, horrifyingly poetic beauty that exists within the human form and the quiet, suffocating tension of the life that encircles it. Flesh, expression, flowers, and stillness are treated with equal weight — all temporary, all exposed, all slowly collapsing under time.
Through my lens the natural world mirrors the body — beautiful, fleeting, and already in the process of undoing itself. The images linger in discomfort rather than explanation, allowing tenderness, absurdity, and unease to coexist. Photography becomes an act of attention to what is most easily ignored — a way of staying with the unsettling long enough for its poetry to surface.
Alongside this, I write blackout poetry — as a way of dismantling and reshaping language. By removing words, rearranging fragments, or allowing chance to guide meaning, I explore how much can be said with very little. The act of erasure becomes one of discovery, revealing hidden narratives and emotional undercurrents within existing texts.
My visual art, lives in the quiet spaces between things. Working with charcoal on paper, I allow forms to surface slowly from darkness and wide fields of white, drawing as much through erasure as through mark. Flowers and simple shapes become ghosts of themselves — fragments suspended in space, held by absence, shaped by what has been removed. These small works are made through touch and intuition, through smearing and lifting, letting the material lead. They carry the same hush, stillness, and soft gravity that runs through my photographic practice, inviting a slower kind of looking, where meaning gathers in shadow.
This website is a living archive rather than a polished endpoint. It reflects ongoing experiments, collaborations, and ways of seeing — some resolved, some deliberately unresolved. If the work resonates, challenges, or simply holds your attention for a moment, then it’s doing what I hope it will.