Interventions with objects and spaces
August 2007
This, the second project in the New City Programme, was an exhibition of new work by Finnish artist Anu Turunen. This project aimed to promote an emerging non-regional artist and provided Turunen with her first solo show. The commission included research visits to the space so that Turunen could develop work in relation to the environment before installing the exhibition. This had a direct influence on the exhibition where Turunen used a discarded door found inside the building to create one of the works.
“I am drawn to things with a deceptive lightness; things that make fun of gravity. This feeling I’m getting (ever chasing); when listening to Madonna or Pet Shop Boys in the studio; like a blue sky in a cartoon, elusive and attractive…
…The truth is, if you distil things enough they change into something different. Or I can think of it as zooming into a section of a comic strip; like a Rauschenberg brush stroke, isolated and self-conscious.
Anu Turunen. July 2007
Brief artist biography
Anu Turunen was born in Helsinki in 1979. She moved to London in 1999 to begin Fine Art studies at Camberwell College and then progressed to complete an MA in Sculpture at Slade School in 2005. Turunen was twice awarded the Slade Project Award and has exhibited work in various group shows in London. Forthcoming projects include an exhibition and publication in Dusseldorf and London planned for early 2008.
Links
To read Turunen’s statement in the Interventions with Objects and Spaces catalogue, click here.
Click here to view the flyer/poster.
Exhibition set-up
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Exhibition preview
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Artwork
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