Fast 15 with Liam Taylor

1. What is your role at Print Room?

Currently heat press, soon to be screenprint!

2. Share a portrait of yourself

3. Share a favourite place of yours

The Lee River in Brightwater

4. What are your hobbies?

I love music, listening to it or making it. I also enjoy a bit of photography and making video artworks. 

5. Got any book recommendations?

Perfume - Patrick Süskind

The Conqueror Series - Conn Iggulden

The Lord of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

6. What's your go-to coffee?

Either a filter or a long black

7. What are your all-time favourite albums? 

Pod - The Breeders

Bleach - Nirvana

1000 Hurts - Shellac

8. Your lifelong dream?

So many dreams, but at this stage, I just want to own my own little slice of Aotearoa at some point.

9. What are you doing to help the environment?

I cycle to work and do my best to avoid the supermarket by going to the farmers' market and mending my clothes rather than buying new ones all the time.

10. What were you doing before TPR, and what brought you here?

I was a student at the Dunedin School of Art. I used to work with Trinity while she worked here, so I came here as a part of the Art School’s professional methodologies paper and never really left!

11. Take a snap of something that makes you happy:

Rock’n’roll gigs at The Crown m8

12. If you had unlimited Airpoints and could go to one country tomorrow, where would it be and why?

The Netherlands, I’ve wanted to go there since I was a kid, so much art!

13. If you could play a gig at any festival, which festival would it be?

Dankfest at The Crown Hotel. Or Twisted Frequency.

14. You're having a dinner party at your house. What do you make?

Corned beef with mustard sauce

15. You're allowed three famous guests at this dinner party. Who are they, and why?

Kim Deal from The Breeders - she’s just so cool. Kurt Cobain R.I.P, the singer/guitar player from Nirvana, he’s also pretty cool and Steve Albini R.I.P, he died last year but he’s the singer/guitar player from Shellac and a genius sound engineer who has recorded albums for my other two guests!