Ulla is a prolific pavement artist and has been street painting publicly and professionally for over 30 years with Melbourne as her home pitch. With pastels and knees pads in tow, paint brushes and palettes packed- she creates public, street and event artwork around the world.
Taylor also creates fine paintings, often on the themes of wildlife and mythology. She exhibits occassionally in Group Shows, the most major Being "25 years of Chalk Circle" at Ararat Regional Art Gallery 2016.
Her recent theme "Overton Window" explores the experience of long lockdowns in Melbourne, watching the world and community change through the pandemic. It has been a time of isolation and confusion. Our own perceptions, actions and opinions evolve as regulations and information change, seeking best solutions - and the polarity of our community when solutions are viewed through a different lens by others.
The Overton Window – (Stage 3)
This is the window of our beliefs, ever shifting...
Everyone’s window is a bit different.
I had never imagined this two years ago- shifting perceptions wrought by a long curfew, Two hundred and sixty-two days lockdown- home-schooling, the disconcerting fear of the unknown, a quaking instability of the world…
As my child spent her days in unknown computer communities rather than with family- we read the word “death” and "disease" numerous times a day, echoing in our mind. Warning alerts flashing on my phone and in my consciousness. We adapted our natural life to flatten the curve and masked our inspiration through heat and dizzying air restrictions. We went to work on disease plans rather than life's loves...
I saw my devout career as a community artist evaporate while mines keep churning, loggers kept logging, the earth is polluted and the investment markets boom.
I have admired the community spirit of sacrifice for the good of all. We have been amazed at the heroic and philanthropic efforts of our health carers in particular, in fear of their lives– but also teachers, administrators, the full gamut of US going through “midnight evolutions” adapting to the daily evolution of a new world.
Believing we all strive for the good of our community, I also was shocked by nastiness, death-wishes, censorship, segregation. This is scarier than a disease... I feel the great disparity of impact or harm these changes wring on the privileged and are wrought upon under-privileged.
I feel I have been living in a dystopian prequel, and long for a simple life- the solace of a quiet forest, a pristine beach and a loving community. To be away from this disease and the dis-ease. I think of my mother a lot while painting this, a displaced person-child and the strangeness of her old-country when I visited there...
How do our windows of belief differ?
How can we avoid malaise and strife from differing points of view?
Wishing you all Peace and Love.
*This small Painting is the first complete as part of a series I am working on. It will be exhibited at Linden Postcard show over Summer. (with some butterflies which are much more pleasant to look at!) :)
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"Excavation 5022 - Clues to the end of the oil age" has taken her in a new direction, exploring unsustainable practices which threaten modern man and our environment.
Ulla has won local and international prizes in pavement art- her paintings are represented in State government, (INformation Victoria, Heritage Victoria and Family Planning Victoria), corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Further information on her rather retro web... www.ullart.com :) | 
Ulla Taylor in Hobsons Bay Art Show