Ken Turner
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Gallery
Total number of images: 4
- Humanity in Pain
- shootingstyle
- realtimeterror
- Babel
Biography
| Painter - performance artist - writer
CV Ken Turner 01736 794969 www.imaginativeeye.co.uk painter and performance & video artist ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2010 KICK TO THE HEAD AND GEART OF ART BOOK TO BUY NOW FROM lulu.com 2009 October Get In The Ring NSA art & sport Exchange Gallery 6 day Thai drawing installation 2009 September artcornwall interview -illustrated web page 2009 May Bristol West of England Academy NSA members show painting exhibition 2008 August Three Painters Trereife House Gallery, Newlyn Painting 2008 October This is Whatever Deleadus Gallery London E1 performance 2008 July Drawing the Line – mixed show Hilton Young Gallery Penzance Drawing 2008 July The Whatever Eyeprojects Falmouth University/Dartington Performance 2008 March Invigorate Artists Group Exchange Gallery Penzance Performance/Talk 2007 December paintings mixed show Hilton Young Gallery Penzance paintings 2007 November Lineage/Shifts in Perception Newlyn Art Gallery Performance 2007 September Shifts in Perception Cow Lane Gallery Manchester Performance 2007 April Unquiet Earth- Unquiet Mind NSA Mariners Gallery St Ives Performance 2007 March Mixed Ex. Postcard art Belgrave Gallery Paintings 2006 November One person Exhibition The Old Ship Gallery London Paintings 2006 September Exhibiton Salthouse Gallery St. Ives paintings 2005 June The Potato Piece with Brackets Phoenix theatre Exeter performance 2004 Belgrave Gallery St Ives water colours Paintings 2004-2005 London Studio work on ‘Its All In The Mind’ performance—an ongoing project on performance 2004 Nov Artists as Machines Newlyn Art Gallery performance/see website 2004 Aug video showing drawing with nude Newlyn Gallery video 2004 July watercolour paintings Belgrave Gallery St Ives mixed exhibition 2003 Dec Van Gogh’s Boots Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre performance 2003 November Boots and Laces Newlyn Gallery performance art 2003 September Badcocks Gallery paintings exhibition with Sandra Blow 2002 September Brighton University (year contract) Arts a & Communication Live Art Research 2002 July…….. Further text paintings Critics Choice Newlyn Gallery NSA exhibition 2002 July……. Boots Legs and Laces Video and performance in process 2002 March - May Work in Progress with University of Brighton to set up SQALLP website and performance 2002 March SQALLP- bollard live art event Harbour, St. Ives performance art 2002 University of Brighton : Ongoing research in Live Art on video for the web 2001 Dec-Jan Work in video for 'Desire' Studio research/video 2001 Nov Language in Painting Transition Newlyn Gallery solo exhibition 2001 Aug-Sept Text in painting Salthouse Gallery St. Ives exhibition 2000 Penwith Gallery Is Moribund Entrance doorway performance 2000 July SQALLP with belt & Brighton University Arts Council grant 8 day residency 10 performance artists international in SQALLP intergenerational curator/performer 1999 Oct Art Occurrence Acorn Theatre performance & video 'Not Yet and No Longer' Contract Interiors solo exhibition 1998 Feb Arts Council/Combined arts project/gathering at 'belt' Research/archive grant March Research & Development South West Arts grant July "Memory Trace Real' Millennium Gallery performance Aug 'Potatoes And Possibilities' Bristol Academy performance Oct 'A few words' Newlyn Gallery performance 1997 July 'Questioning Office Of Art' Quality of Light in parallel curator/ performance Intervention Tate Gallery St. Ives performance July 'Re De Enlightenment' QOOA Installation performance/cliff site Aug Launch of QOOA “The office” Millennium Gallery performance April May Founded QOOA Website St.Ives Paintings NSA member Newlyn Gallery exhibition 'Goat Paths" Penzance Chapel performance 1996 Sept 'Philosophy, Art and otherTricks' Salthouse Gallery performance lecture Oct 'Eight Times Four Sides' Newlyn Art Gallery performance 1995 July Retrospective of paintings Salthouse Gallery SWA grant solo exhibition ‘Angels Devils Deception' Salthouse Gallery performance Sept 'Memory Without Past' Penzance Arts Club performance 1994 Oct 'Doubtless 3' Newlyn Gallery & Dartington performance Aug ‘Doubtless 2’ Bretton Park, Yorkshire performance 1993 1994 Move to St. Ives Cornwall Rebuild Barns as Studio labour 1992 Establish 'General Specific' Reading Philosophy study 1992 'Doubtless ' Square Chapel Halifax performance 1991 'Boxes' England & Co London exhibition 1987 1987 Founder member of CRAG Burnley & Piece Hall Galleries exhibitions 1986 Move to Yorkshire 1985 The Tragic Sense Of Life' ICA London performance 1985 July * Art in Architecture and Performance RIBA /York Minster residency AC grant /curator 1984 'Threshold' for Brighton and Nottingham Zap Club commission performance "The Apple Tree" Architectural Association performance 1983 'Cennini's Private View' Battersea Art Centre performance 'Game Set Match' Brighton Festival performance "Muse Museum' Zap Club Brighton performance 1982 "Early Greek Temple installation' Edinburgh Fringe Festival performance 1981 'Mirror' sculptural constructions Moira Kelly Gallery London/exhibition 1980 Founded Art Design and Building Centre in London …as an art and architecture workshop 1979 Founded Action Space Circus Isle of Wight as a performance art group. 1967 – 1978 Founded and co-curated and directed 'Action Space' as a Charitable Trust with a revenue grant from the Arts Council, The London Borough of Camden, GLA and private Trusts. AS was established to promote the theory and practice of art in the community (not as community art) based first in Kentish Town and then The Drill Hall, Chennies Street, off Tottenham Court, Road London. Worked and performed at Harrogate, Edinburgh, York, Chichester, Cardiff and many others centres in the UK and abroad directing performance and installations for action space. Some Action Space Events: 1971 Arts Council BLOW UP project at Serpentine Gallery, Cardiff and Liverpool 1974 Interdrama at Academy De Kunst, Berlin. Also Institute of Contemporary Art London 1977 Rotterdam Festival, Amsterdam and Beethoven Festivals in Holland and Bonn. 1968 & 1969 Environmental Structure Wapping Residency as Action Space with Arts Council Grant 1967 Joan Littlewood’s Bubble city and plastic paradise in the City of London Installation/action space 1964 –1966 Solo Exhibitions: Paintings & Structures ICA, Mansard, and Lords galleries London 1954 -1962 Mixed Exhibitions: Tate Gallery London, Beaux Arts Gallery supported by John Berger, Partisan, London Group, AIA, Centre 42, First Group Tour of Paintings to 12 Municipal Galleries. • A weeks residency with Ron Haselden, Paul Neagu, Stuart Jones, Sylvia Hallet, Pamela Hiley, David Templer, Rosemary Moore, Linda Martin, Kate Baker, Polanca Brown, building structures and making a performance for Art & Architecture as an • experiment in interdisciplinary skills collaboration, working in the grounds of York Minster. Commission from Royal Institute of British Architects, funded by Arts Council. 1985. • TEACHING: Central St. Martins and Architectural Association, London, for many years, during 1965 to 1990. • PUBLICATIONS: • 1966 Studio International on Art as Something Public – by Edward Lucie-Smith 1970 "Working Big" - a book on working with young people. ‘Left Shift’ — work in action space pub. I B Taurous by John A Walker 1971 Theoria to Theory Vol 5 Cambridge University • 1976 Radical Technology 'Undercurrents' 1996 Drawing Towards the End of the Century • 2002 Newlyn Society of Artists in ARTNSA- 2000 . 2000 Report on SQALLP (Systems Questioning Art Live Life) Eight day residency Brighton 2003 ‘Making Waves’ as new directions by Tom Cross 2005 ‘Face to Face’ British self portraits in the 20c –Phillip Vann 2007 ZAP twenty five years of innovation – zap art and queenspark books AWARDS: Arts Council - Camden Council - South West Arts. Collections: Arts Council and private collectors COMMISSIONS: Various for Action Space throughout the UK and Abroad (Bonn, Berlin and Amsterdam) - Zap in Brighton - Joan Littlewood London-Architectural Association performance - Dartington Arts Centre performance - Newlyn Art Gallery. COLLECTIONS: Arts Council of England and Private art collections |
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