Tayler Fisher is an artist based in Loughborough who makes paintings, sculptures and music. He uses processes of collage and dubbing to transform found images and sounds into something new. He is inspired by the history and production techniques of dub, a subculture which grew out of reggae music. His work features alien environments and distorted languages in which autobiography, mythology and historical events combine into imagined realities. Tayler has exhibited at Gasleak Mountain, Nottingham (2023), Trace Gallery, Nottingham (2023) and Reference Point, London (2022). 
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“I've got to get away from here, this is not a place for me to stay, I've got to take my family, and find a quiet place” (The Paragons, ‘A Quiet Place’). ‘A Quieter Place’ is the first solo show by British artist, Tayler Fisher commissioned by Modern Painters, New Decorators. Tayler creates a sprawling, technicolour world in which monsters, flowers and words collide, inspired by historical maps, epic poems and fantasy media. The exhibition features a series of paintings influenced by the song, ‘A Quiet Place’ by the Paragons, which has been versioned by King Tubby, Horace Andy and Massive Attack. Expanded through an installation of objects, images and sounds, the exhibition explores lyrical themes of journey and home. Tayler will use icons of personal importance alongside imagery from films such as Don Chaffey’s ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ (1963) to create a unique belief system. In doing so, he joins a history of artists and musicians who create their own version of utopia, in which our hopes and desires are ‘not a set of events that took place in the over-and-done-with past, but lurking in the permadepths of the present.’ (Geoff Dyer, ‘Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey’). The project is funded by Arts Council England, Leicestershire County Council and Charnwood Borough Council.