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"These drawings and paintings all talk of transformations, of relationships between each other, our dependence upon one another and the power that the physical body has to express the inexpressible.
I am quite a literal person. My images are at times abstracted but not abstract. I draw bodies because I am surrounded by them, but also because they to me are the most expressive way to talk about the world. The human body is such a powerful image, manipulated shamelessly all our lives, interpreted as ourselves, and as the shell in which we live and through which we experience the external world...
These are not real bodies they are drawings and paintings, metaphors of life and death, of mutation and transformation - we observe it in others, we perceive it in ourselves...we are organic and ever changing.
Anatomical illustration flourished in the latter part of the 18th century, as the emergent sciences laid increasing stress on empiricism. Art lent to medicine the prestige of high culture, and the illusion that the techniques of realism were presenting the truth. The body became the site where political concerns intersect with personal ones, and so it has remained.
Now medical science has extended life, we have to deal with the natural corruption of the body in an atmosphere of denial.
We live in a society that is both ultra conformist - and where at the same time, as a consequence of this, there is a great deal of exclusion, both mental and social. I think there is a desire for eccentricity, manifested by many artists, which stems from the concern that is at the heart of sacred rites - to take into account what is marginal to a structure, and through the representation of this eccentricity, find a harmony".
FRANCES TURNER, (1965-2003, United Kingdom)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Paintings & Drawings, ART @ LARGE, New York City
2003
Flesh In Oil, ART @ LARGE, New York City
2002
MACO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca) OAXACA, MEXICO
2001
Sórdida belleza, (Sordid Beauty) MUSEO UNIVERSITARIO DEL CHOPO, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
2000
BRITISH COUNCIL GALLERY, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
LEIGHTON HOUSE GALLERY, LONDON
1999
GAGALIARDI GALLERY, KINGS ROAD, LONDON
1998
WINDOWS GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON
1997
RAILINGS GALLERY, NEW CAVENDISH STREET, LONDON
1995
PUMPHOUSE GALLERY, BATTERSEA, LONDON
GAGLIARDI GALLERY, KINGS ROAD, LONDON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, ConWorks, Seattle, WA
2003
NYC Erotic Art Fair, Gay and Lesbian Community Center, NYC
Beatrice Royal Gallery Portrait Show, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Degress of Separation, Escape Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea , London, United Kingdom
2002
Group Sex II, Art @ Large, New York City
Chosen, Rootstein Hopkins Exhibition Space, Oxford St, London
Gagliardi Gallery, Chelsea Town Hall, London
2001
BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery London
1999
Jacob K. Javits Centre, New York City
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1998
Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Eastleigh, Hants
Merton Open Exhibition, London
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
Erotica Expo, Olympia, London.
MINISTRY OF SOUND, LONDON
1997
Merton Open Exhibition, London
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1996
Railings Gallery, New Cavendish Street, London.
Merton Open Exhibition, London
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1994:
Fresh Art, Design Centre, London
FARA Exhibition, Bonhams, London
AWARDS
2001
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1999
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1998
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Award for painting, London
1997
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
1996
National Portrait Gallery BP Award, National Gallery, London
Carroll Foundation Award. Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
LECTURES
2003
Visiting Instructor in Fine Art, Instituto Cultural Helenico, Mexico
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newham College, London
2002
Visiting Instructor in Fine Art, Instituto Cultural Helenico, Mexico
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newham College, London
2001
Visiting Instructor in Fine Art, Instituto Cultural Helenico, Mexico
Guest Lecturer, Museo Universitario del Chopo
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newham College, London
2000
Instructor in Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art London since 1998
Visiting Instructor in Fine Art, Instituto Cultural Helenico, Mexico
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newham College, London
EDUCATION
1996-1998 MFA, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1991-1994 BA, Hons Fine Art, Painting, Wimbledon School of Art, London
1983-1986 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Higher Diploma (Acting)
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