Location
Globe Arts Studio, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, HD7 5AG
This Autumn Globe Arts Studio are proud to showcase Coalescence, by the very talented Olivia Turner.
The exhibition will open to the public from the 13th onwards, viewing during regular studio hours - Monday to Thursday, and Saturdays 10am to 3pm.
Olivia Turner’s concern with spatial awareness is evident within her work, which continually plays with conventional ideas about spaces. Her paintings are densely multi-faceted representations of Brutalist buildings with composition, form and structure playing an integral part in her paintings. Developed from her photographs and drawings, the compositions are built up from multiple viewpoints. She continuously layers drawings on tracing paper, allowing her to explore countless configurations, carefully refining these before they are developed into paintings.
By isolating her compositions from their original surroundings, she wants to give the viewer no option but to interact with them. Turner wants the viewer to see the true beauty of these buildings, starting a conversation around the loss of them in society. Her main intention is to alter a place by creating a new space within it, causing the viewer to question their perception of their own experience of the space.
Having enjoyed a string of successes, exhibitions and awards after graduating, Olivia Turner has become a notable and well-established artist in Scotland. She was selected for the prestigious New Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, and has since continued to develop her practice. She has exhibited worldwide and is currently the President of the Society of Scottish Artists.
She has also been a recipient of several awards including the Royal Scottish Academy’s Latimer Award; RSA Sir William Gillies Bequest Award, and the Open Contemporary Young Artist Award.
Coalescence, at Globe Arts Studio, will show the depth of Turner’s practice and how it has developed over the last few years. As the title suggests, it will bring together several avenues which Turner has continued to explore and will include two and three-dimensional outcomes. It will feature a new series of paintings along with some new marquetry work, which emerged during lockdown.