Ian Turnock

Ian Turnock

Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom

About Ian Turnock

My sculpture is inspired by pattern, structure and symmetry in nature. One of my main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes formed against the sky by trees at different times of the year. The spaces between the branches and leaves are just as important, an aesthetic concept known in Japanese culture as ‘Ma’ which is akin to the silences between the notes in music. Often it is the empty spaces and gaps and their relationship to the tree I am looking for just as much as the leaves and branches themselves. These spaces are an invisible energy that give shape to the whole. The influential graphic designer, Alan Fletcher, refering to Ma in his book The Art of Looking Sideways says: “Space is substance. Cézanne painted and modelled space. Giacometti sculpted by “taking the fat off space”. Mallarmé conceived poems with absences as well as words. Ralph Richardson asserted that acting lay in pauses… Isaac Stern described music as “that little bit between each note - silences which give the form” My background in graphic design influences my exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which I develop organic, abstract and figurative sculpture. I create intricate drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten weathering steel, aluminium, copper and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

Education:

HND Graphic Design

Events:

2019: AAF Hampstead, London
12th - 15th March 2020
Represented by The Art Agency

Several of my wall sculptures shown at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London 2014/2015.

COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:

Cunard Queen Mary II
11 sculptures for the Princess Grill

Hotel, Algeria 2015
2 framed woodcuts

Tudor Capital Europe, London 2015
1 stainless steel wall sculpture

Hotel, Bahrain 2015
1 stainless steel wall sculpture

Private client, Saudi Arabia 2014
2 aluminium sculptures

Private client, London 2013
2 stainless steel garden sculptures


Cunard Queen Mary II
11 sculptures for Princess Grill restaurant

Private client, London 2014
1 copper garden sculpture

The Whiteleaf Centre, Aylesbury 2013
Wall sculpture commissioned by Artscape: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Alpina Hotel, Gstaad, Switzerland
52 weathered steel sculptures for a new luxury boutique hotel

Private residence, Paris 2012
10 steel wall sculptures

Private client, York 2012
stainless steel decorative screen

Private client, London 2012
2 rusted steel wall sculptures

P&O Azura Cruise Liner 2010
2 curved stainless steel wall sculptures

Salford Business School 2010
vinyl window decoration

EDF Energy, Head Office, London 2008
2 reclaimed steel wall sculptures

Candy & Candy Interiors 2008
aluminium wall sculpture

Restaurant, Finland 2008
aluminium wall sculpture

Exhibitions:

My wall sculpture ‘Eye of the Hurricane’ was selected for Drawn 2015 at The Royal West of England Academy of Art, Bristol.