Alison Turnbull
“I am interested in the point where nature and culture meet, in the sense that all of the things I use in the work are more to do with human ordering of the natural world than with nature in its raw state.”
Born 1956, Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in London. Turnbull transforms readymade information – plans, diagrams, blueprints, charts – into abstract paintings. The found source material is reimagined and made vivid through colour and the intensity of the worked picture surface. Turnbull’s interest in architecture has been a generative starting point for much of her work and has led to a number of architectural commissions and projects in public spaces.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2025); Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2022); Many Minute Attentions, co-curated by Alison Turnbull and John Stezaker, Large Glass (2021); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2021); Saicoro, Tokyo (2020); Matt’s Gallery, London (2018); Five Easy Pieces, Large Glass, London; (2017); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2014); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2012).
Born 1956, Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in London. Turnbull transforms readymade information – plans, diagrams, blueprints, charts – into abstract paintings. The found source material is reimagined and made vivid through colour and the intensity of the worked picture surface. Turnbull’s interest in architecture has been a generative starting point for much of her work and has led to a number of architectural commissions and projects in public spaces.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2025); Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2022); Many Minute Attentions, co-curated by Alison Turnbull and John Stezaker, Large Glass (2021); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2021); Saicoro, Tokyo (2020); Matt’s Gallery, London (2018); Five Easy Pieces, Large Glass, London; (2017); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2014); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2012).
Website
www.alison-turnbull.com
Press
BBC Radio 4, ‘Pursuit of Beauty, Alison Turnbull and Butterflies in Colombia’, produced by Kate Bland, A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4, 18 Jun 2018.
Running time: 28 mins.
www.alison-turnbull.com
Press
BBC Radio 4, ‘Pursuit of Beauty, Alison Turnbull and Butterflies in Colombia’, produced by Kate Bland, A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4, 18 Jun 2018.
Running time: 28 mins.