All The Gardens I Could Find
!['Series 2: Summer Structure [New Again]'. Installation View Detail. Blindside, Melbourne, 2016.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169384-733DXO0HIIDAC6QOE598/melanie-jayne-taylor-all-the-gardens-2016-4.JPG)
!['Series 2: Summer Structure [New Again]'. Installation View Detail. Blindside, Melbourne, 2016.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169394-XPHXU6TPJMHT6JOCBWOG/melanie-jayne-taylor-all-the-gardens-2016-5.jpg)
![Endless Beginnings [Bougainvillea/Cadaques] 2016 [2015]. Archival Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. 71.44x50cm Edition of 5 + 2 Ap.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169510-WCIBZ2N67J9AFT9ICF81/melanie-jayne-tayor-all-the-gardens-2016-7.jpg)
![Green Files: [Spilling out over the Edge], contains photographic prints, related to bougainvillea's and hedges (and all that they meant). Installation View Detail. Blindside, Melbourne. 2016](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169411-U9D1LNQJVOMZWI1S6V8G/melanie-jayne-taylor-all-the-gardens-2016-8.jpg)
![The Presence of the Palms [Green shade]. 2016 (2015) Archival Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. 29x21cm. Edition of 5 + 2 Ap.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169518-PZH1PEVYPN2Z8HZS3XYL/melanie-jayne-taylor-all-the-gardens-2016-9-.jpg)
![On The Edge of It. 2016 [2015] Archival Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition of 5 + 2 AP.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169528-5FHMAUOZ8626S21RPL2N/melanie-jayne-taylor-variations-10.jpg)
![Series 5: Basic blue [sky blue]. Painted box with photgraphic prints, view through a window and onto a garden. Installation View Detail. Blindside, Melbourne 2016.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169467-R6K8LX1OUA7DV1T262VG/melanie-jayne-taylor-all-the-gardens-2016-18.JPG)
!['Series 4: Formal Gardens [Fell Apart]. Item 4.1 French roses [creamy pink] and pushed up into the corner. Installation View Detail. Blindside, Melbourne. 2016](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b1e007b44c86f809747ff/1698373169523-WQRXOD4PEC4ZPAEXIPDC/2016-blindside_melanie-jayne-taylor.jpg)
Blindside
Melbourne - Australia
16 November – 3 December 2016
The development and realisation of this work was supported by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Studio Program.
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Download the All The Gardens I Could Find catalogue essay by Philip Goldswain.
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For All The Gardens I Could Find, Melanie Jayne Taylor exhibits the processes involved in creating a comprehensive cataloguing system for the all the material in her personal photographic archive related to gardens.
Drawing on photographs that depict a wide range of historical and contemporary gardens worldwide, she explores the slippages between traditional classification systems and subjective, intuitive interpretations.
Guiding this process are the central questions ‘how do we manage the endless quantity of images?’ and ‘how does the archiving process create meaning from the disorder?’