| 1954 |
Born in London |
| 1982 |
Moved to Cornwall and studied painting and life drawing
with Roy Walker and Bob Devereux |
| 1997 - 2002 |
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Falmouth College of Arts. Class (2.1) |
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Exhibitions with ’ Platform 5’ |
| 1999 |
‘In-Sight’ Organised and exhibited - Falmouth Arts Centre. |
| 2 – 15 Aug 03 |
‘Platform 5’ Mariners Gallery. St. Ives. Five artists from all over Cornwall exhibit the diversity of
their work. |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2003 |
Easter Show – Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. Easter Show – Mixed Exhibition at Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn. |
| May 03 |
'Marking the Surface' Artmill Gallery, Plymouth. An exhibition of established and emerging women artists from the South West. |
| June 03 |
The Goldfish Bowl – St. Ives and Penzance, Cornwall |
| August 03 |
'Unframed' Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. |
| October 03 |
The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford. |
| 9-12 Oct 03 |
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London. |
| 26 Oct-13 Dec 03 |
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. All works selected. |
| 10 Jan-28 Feb 04 |
Fur, Feathers and Fauna', Falmouth Municipal Art Gallery, The Moor, Falmouth. |
| 28 May-28 June 04 |
'Sense of Place', Lander Gallery, Truro. |
| 3rd July -10 Aug 04 |
Summer Show, Vitreous Contemporary Art, Mitchell Hill. Truro |
| 29 Sep-3 Oct 04 |
‘On The Wall’ Olympia Grand Hall, London |
| 13 Nov-24 Dec 04 |
Christmas Show, Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro |
| 13 Oct 2005 |
Truro Three Arts’ 60th Anniversary exhibition. (T3A) Mylor Theatre, Truro College |
| 9 Dec 05-7 Jan 06 |
The Christmas show, Vitreous,Contemporary Art, Truro |
| 3 March-6 May 06 |
‘Posers’ Exhibition. Falmouth Municipal Art Gallery, The Moor Falmouth. |
| 5 Nov-16 Dec 06 |
Royal West of England Academy. Three works selected |
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Ongoing |
| 2007/2011 |
The Customs House Gallery, Porthleven The Square Gallery, St Mawes |
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Solo Exhibitions |
| July-Sep 2005 |
Solo Exhibition at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro |
| Sep- Oct 2007 |
‘Urban Edge’ 6 week exhibition at Royal Cornwall, Museum Truro |
| July 31 2010 |
Joint Exhibition with Philip Lyons at Mithian Village Hall |
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Forthcoming Exhibitions |
| 30 July-6 Aug 2011 |
Joint Exhibition with Philip Lyons at Mithian Village Hall |
| Until 3 Sept 2011 |
Down to the Sea – Lander Gallery, Truro |
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Artist in Residence for ‘The Big Draw’ event at the museum on October 13 2007 |
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Awards |
| Jan 2003 |
Awarded ‘start up grant’ by the Visual Arts and Media Department, Southwest Arts |
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Statement |
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A move from a busy urban part of Cornwall to the coast four years ago has inspired Gill Turner’s latest paintings, an almost complete contrast to her urban ones where movement and metropolitan clutter filled every canvas.
In these paintings she aims to capture the silent and simplified atmosphere of the coastal landscape in order to distil its essence. Extraneous detail is rejected, leaving a simplicity of quiet space, elementary forms and heightened colours.
The commonplace; a tree, a field, a boat becomes something transformed, in an invented but marvellous landscape. As in her urban work, the landscape is reconstructed as an invented place quite simply by being rendered in paint leaving just the essential qualities of the actual place. |
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