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Ian Turnock

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Biography

“My sculpture is inspired by pattern, structure and symmetry in nature. One of my main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes formed against the sky by trees at different times of the year. The spaces between the branches and leaves are just as important, an aesthetic concept known in Japanese culture as ‘Ma’ which is akin to the silences between the notes in music. Often it is the empty spaces and gaps and their relationship to the tree I am looking for just as much as the leaves and branches themselves.

These spaces are an invisible energy that give shape to the whole.

The influential graphic designer, Alan Fletcher, refering to Ma in his book The Art of Looking Sideways says:

“Space is substance. Cézanne painted and modelled space. Giacometti sculpted by “taking the fat off space”. Mallarmé conceived poems with absences as well as words. Ralph Richardson asserted that acting lay in pauses… Isaac Stern described music as “that little bit between each note - silences which give the form.

My background in graphic design influences my exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which I develop organic, abstract and figurative sculpture. I create intricate drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten weathering steel, aluminium, copper and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object”.

Selected Exhibitions

2020

The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Battersea, London
represented by The Art Agency
Contemporary Art Fair, Sandown Park Racecourse, Surrey
represented by The Art Agency
ART FOR CURE at Glemham Hall, Suffolk

2019

Edinburgh Art Fair
represented by The Art Agency
Contemporary Art Fair, Windsor
represented by The Art Agency
Art Fair Cheshire, Macclesfield
FRESH: Contemporary Art Fair, Ascot
represented by The Art Agency
Marks Hall Sculpture 2019
Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum, Essex
'Earthbound Skies'
The Stratford Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Hampstead, London
represented by The Art Agency
FRESH: Contemporary Art Fair, Cheltenham Racecourse
represented by The Art Agency
Organic Form, Winter 2018/19 Group Show
Gallery 57, Arundel
The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Battersea, London
represented by The Art Agency

2018

Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh Corn Exchange
represented by The Art Agency
FRESH: Contemporary Art Fair, Cheltenham Racecourse
represented by The Art Agency
The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Battersea
represented by The Art Agency

2017

‘Form and Fascination’
Joint sculpture exhibition with Fiona Campbell
National Trust The Courts Garden, Holt, Wiltshire
Draw the Line at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham
AAF Battersea Spring
London, represented by Red Gallery
'From the Land' Group Exhibition
The Old Station Gallery, Rowsley, Derbyshire

2016

National Trust ‘Art in the Garden’ Exhibition
Avebury Manor, Wiltshire
East Cheshire Hospice Art Fair Macclesfield Town Hall
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
Shadow Exhibition
Emporium Gallery, Lichfield, Staffordshire
West Lavington Manor - Celebrating Art in the Garden
Friends of the Garden, Wiltshire 
Reading Contemporary Art Fair
represented by Junction Art Gallery

2015

Cambridge City Art Fair
represented by One Church Street Gallery
RHS Tatton Park Flower Show
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
represented by One Church Street Gallery
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
represented by One Church Street Gallery
DRAWN The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol