PhD Fine Art Practice-Based, Sheffield Hallam University (AHRC studentship award)
PGCert Heritage Research, University of Hull (AHRC studentship award)
MA Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art (RCA funding award)
BA Graphic & Media Design: Illustration Pathway, University of the Arts London
Art Foundation, Oxford Brookes University

Published

2024, Illustration and Heritage, Bloomsbury Visual Arts
2024, Remote Sensing, University of the Arts London
2023, Method Illustration, Journal of Illustration, 9, pp. 115-142
2021, Remote Sensing, University of the Arts London
2017, Charmed and Hypnotised, the Horniman Museum and Arts Council England
2017, The Dreamers, Ma Bibliothèque
2016, The Editions III, Ma Bibliothèque

Selected Exhibitions

2024, Illustration and Heritage, the Peckham Pelican
2022, The Window, 81 Wilton Way, London
2021 – 22, In-heritage, the ILEA collection, Camberwell College of Art Library
2021, Illustration Research Symposium, Kingston School of Art (online)
2018 – 19, Exhibition of Ideas, the Bowes Museum
2018, The Outsider, Bronte Parsonage Museum
2017, RCA Secret, Royal College of Art
2017, The Editions IIII, Pages: 20th International Artists Book Fair, The Tetley
2016, ‘Charmed England’ at Magic Late, the Horniman Museum
2016, This Island, and its buildings, is our private paradise, Maia Conran / Rachel Emily Taylor, SKELF 
2016, Finding Foundlings, the Foundling Museum
2016, Testing, Testing, Sia Gallery
2016, Curious House, Bishop’s House, Art Sheffield
2016, The Editions III, AGC Gallery
2016, Research In Practice, Peltz Gallery
2015, 5th Sheffield International Artist Book Prize, Bank Street Arts
2015, SOROR, Safehouse 1, Peckham
2013, Hunter Gatherer, Henry Moore Gallery
2012, Build Your Own Superhero, the Wellcome Collection
2012, Space Aquarium 3ooE.R., the Hockney Gallery
2011, crossmedia, Strip Turnhout Festival, Belgium.
2011, Northern Nights, Open Air Cinema Festival
2011, Imagined Cities, The Archipelago Works
2011, Imagined Cities, the London Print Studio
2010, The Anti-Design Festival, Shoreditch
2010, Them & Us, The Rag Factory
2009, Real Life, Area 10, Peckham

Residencies

2018, Bowes Museum, funded by the Bowes Centre.
2017, The Bronte Parsonage Museum, funded by Arts Council England.
2016, The Foundling Museum, London, funded by the AHRC.
2015, The Witchcraft Museum, Boscastle, funded by the AHRC.
2014, University of Malta, funded by ERASMUS+.
2013, BIOMAB Dissection Drawing, Ghent University & Antwerp University, Royal College of Art.

Awards

2023, Staff Research Fund, University of the Arts London
2022, Sabbatical Leave Award, University of the Arts London
2022 – 24, Early Career Researcher Status, University of the Arts London
2022, Staff Research Fund, University of the Arts London
2021, Staff Research Fund, University of the Arts London
2020, Staff Research Fund, University of the Arts London
2017, Individual Award, Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England  
2016, Group Award, Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England
2016, Individual Award, Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England
2015, Individual Award, Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England
2014 – 17, PhD studentship, Arts and Humanities Research Council
2013, Peter Gordon Pickard Award, Royal College of Art
2011, British Council Award