Biography

Jason deCaires Taylor FRSS, born in 1974 to an English father and a Guyanese mother, is a sculptor, environmentalist, professional underwater photographer. After graduating from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture, Taylor became the first of a new generation of artists to shift the concepts of the Land Art Movement into the realm of the marine environment and is best known as the founder of the concept of underwater museums and sculpture parks.

In 2006, Taylor gained international recognition as the founder of the underwater museum concept with the creation of the world’s first large scale underwater art installation, situated off the coast of Grenada in the West Indies. Molinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park is now listed by National Geographic as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World. The park was instrumental in the government declaring the site a national Marine Protected Area.

Over the past 20 years, Taylor has gone on to produce over 1,200 public terrestrial, tidal and fully submerged sculptures worldwide, which are visited by thousands of visitors each week. His permanent, site-specific sculptural works are predominately exhibited in submerged and tidal marine environments, exploring modern themes of conservation and environmental activism.

The works are constructed using pH neutral, environmentally sensitive materials to instigate natural growth. The subsequent natural changes are intended to explore the aesthetics of decay, rebirth and metamorphosis. Taylor’s pioneering projects are not only examples of successful marine conservation, but artworks that seek to encourage environmental awareness and lead us to appreciate the breathtaking natural beauty of the underwater world.

Taylor has received numerous sculpture and photography awards throughout his career and is a fellow of The Royal Society of Sculptors, an Ocean Ambassador to DAN (Divers Alert Network), an Ocean Exemplar of The World Ocean Observatory and a featured TED speaker. He has been recognised for both creativity and inspirational leadership in recent years by Fast Company and Global Leaders Today. Taylor was awarded The Global Thinker Award by Foreign Policy and was described as the Jacques Cousteau of the art world.

To discover more of Jason deCaires Taylor’s projects, view Exploring the Underwater World Through Sculpture here.

Major works include:

• 2025 Ocean Gaia Tokunoshima, Japan
• 2024 A World Adrift, Carriacou
• 2024 Sirens of Sewage, Whitstable, United Kingdom
• 2023 Coral Carnival, Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, Grenada
• 2023 Ocean Sentinels (MOUA), John Brewer Reef, Australia
• 2021 Museum of Underwater Sculpture Ayia Napa (MUSAN), Cyprus
• 2021 Cannes Underwater Eco-Museum, France
• 2019 The Coral Greenhouse (MOUA), John Brewer Reef, Australia
• 2019 Ocean Siren (MOUA), Townsville, Australia
• 2019 The Pride of Brexit, United Kingdom
• 2018 Nexus, Oslo, Norway
• 2018 Coralarium, Sirru Fen Fushi, Maldives
• 2017 Nest, BASK Gili Meno, Indonesia
• 2016 Plasticide, with Greenpeace, United Kingdom
• 2016 Museo Atlántico,  Lanzarote, Spain
• 2015 The Rising Tide, London, United Kingdom
• 2014 Ocean Atlas,  Nassau, Bahamas
• 2011 The Musician, Musha Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
• 2009 Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA), Mexico
• 2006 Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, Grenada