Hardback book 144 pages, 300x240 mm CMYK, Printed on 150gsm Gloss Art and colour blocking. For sale at £10 plus P&P with all proceeds to Teenage Cancer Trust.Stephen Turner
Stephen Turner Tree Rings
by Stephen Turner
Published in 2003, Stour Valley Arts, distributed by Cornerhouse
Publications (Challock, Kent, England, Manchester)
ISBN: 9780953534067
http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=486&page=
by Stephen Turner
Published in 2003, Stour Valley Arts, distributed by Cornerhouse
Publications (Challock, Kent, England, Manchester)
ISBN: 9780953534067
http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=486&page=
Exhibition preview: Stephen Turner, Kettering
By Robert Clark For The Guardian
Artists ranging from Constable to Pollock have stressed the part played in their work by nature, by the chance slurring or dripping of paint, by chemical reactions. Now, in our age of environmental concern, artists are trying to invent ways of working in some kind of collaborative accord with natural forces. Stephen Turner pushes this inclination further out than most by working with woodland muck or letting the trees, as it were, paint theirvery own self-portrait. Cherry tree leaves and berries are simmered for six hours to achieve the precise quality of what Turner calls "a golden brownessence". Canvases are spread beneath trees to receive the various stainingof the changing weather.
RC
Other tree ring references including reprots and pictures:-
www.culture24.org.uk/science+%2526+nature/art60969
www.designermonkey.co.uk/2008/11/tree-rings-by-stephen-turner - 15k -
www.stourvalleyarts.org.uk/commissions/artists_commissioned/stephen_turner_tree_rings.html
www.turnercontemporary.org/uploaded_documents/Time1.pdf
www.fermynwoods.co.uk/exhibitions/2008turner.htm
By Robert Clark For The Guardian
Artists ranging from Constable to Pollock have stressed the part played in their work by nature, by the chance slurring or dripping of paint, by chemical reactions. Now, in our age of environmental concern, artists are trying to invent ways of working in some kind of collaborative accord with natural forces. Stephen Turner pushes this inclination further out than most by working with woodland muck or letting the trees, as it were, paint theirvery own self-portrait. Cherry tree leaves and berries are simmered for six hours to achieve the precise quality of what Turner calls "a golden brownessence". Canvases are spread beneath trees to receive the various stainingof the changing weather.
RC
Other tree ring references including reprots and pictures:-
www.culture24.org.uk/science+%2526+nature/art60969
www.designermonkey.co.uk/2008/11/tree-rings-by-stephen-turner - 15k -
www.stourvalleyarts.org.uk/commissions/artists_commissioned/stephen_turner_tree_rings.html
www.turnercontemporary.org/uploaded_documents/Time1.pdf
www.fermynwoods.co.uk/exhibitions/2008turner.htm
Ebb and Flow:
An installation using digital video.
Five-metre tides of brackish sea meet the freshwater river every twelve hours, while molluscs burrow and local fish sneak about. The Medway tide was filmed in real time, advancing and retreating over a sheet of open weave cotton. The river left a trace of its passing in a rhythmic deposit of silt caught up in its flow; a unique moment in an everlasting cycle.
An installation using digital video.
Five-metre tides of brackish sea meet the freshwater river every twelve hours, while molluscs burrow and local fish sneak about. The Medway tide was filmed in real time, advancing and retreating over a sheet of open weave cotton. The river left a trace of its passing in a rhythmic deposit of silt caught up in its flow; a unique moment in an everlasting cycle.
