Daniel Turner (b. Rochdale 1974) is a British artist living and working in Cornwall, UK. He studied Fine Art, specialising in Painting, at Falmouth University.
Even though his studio floor is often thick with charcoal dust and eraser crumbs, Daniel Turner would still classify himself as of the genus Painters. Bound by dedication to some greater Universal Atelier, Turner describes the space within a Painter's studio as Other - a vast wilderness of thought and a place of artefacts and personal rituals. If the act of painting is to travel without moving (much), Turner’s paintings and drawings often free-range across time zones and genres. Like any journey involving great distance or time, it’s best to focus on tasks and rituals, not destinations. There are maps for this stuff already, a rich history full of navigational aids and seasoned fellow travellers to learn from; imaginary ships crewed by Guston's studio ghosts on an endless global jolly. In this regard, Turner’s work is a visual travelogue - a record of his travails, of his ever-changing thoughts and feelings regarding the nature of Painter, Painting, and Studio.
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The Paint Club. The Picture Room at Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Cornwall.
Nov 2022- Jan 2023.
Impressions From The Great Indoors. That Art Gallery, Bristol 2022.
Publications
The Paint Club. Published by Antler Press
Tutor at Newlyn School of Art.
Selected Group
2024
Kaleidoscope. projects Twenty-Two. Rock, Cornwall.
Treasure. Daisy Laing x Chapel House, Penzance.
Close. That Art Gallery, Bristol.
Hav. OFF, Newquay.
2023
Rapture Live. Tremenheere Gallery Gulval Cornwall.
Memory. Tremenheere Gallery, Gulval.
The Map Is Not The Territory. Tremenheere Gallery, Gulval.
2021
Nutopia. Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn.
NSA125 Past, Present, Future. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and Gallery, Gulval.
Watch This Space. Jubilee Pool, Penzance Art Festival.
-Looking Forward, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden and Gallery Gulval.
2020
Edge of Dark. Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, Tremenheere Gallery Penzance Cornwall.
WAY OUT, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-le-Reims, France.
Sub-Six, Bedruthan Hotel, Mawgan Porth Cornwall.
2019
Ex Libris selected and curated by Dr Ryya Bread. Tremenheere Gallery Penzance.
Bath Open Art Prize. 44AD Bath.
2018
NSA On View. Tremenheere Gallery
Drawing Explored. Tremenheere Gallery Penzance
Doorways. Bath Fringe Arts Festival. 7 New Bond Street Place, Bath
2017
Critics Choice selected by Nicholas Usherwood, Tremenheere Gallery
Play. Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester
Borders, Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
2016
The Salon ii, ProjectSpace103 Newquay Cornwall
2015
All Wrapped Up, The Salthouse Gallery St Ives
The Salon, ProjectSpace103 Newquay Cornwall
2014
Representing Nothing, ProjectSpace103
Art8 Cornwall
2012
Household Festival, Belfast Northern Ireland
2011
Postscript, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol