David Turner
Screenprints
3 Apr - 14 Apr 2024
G1
Opening Night
Friday 5 Apr | 6 - 8pm
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These screenprints by David Turner were produced from the 1970s through to the 1990s and established Turner as a major printmaker in Australia.
They have previously been shown in London, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong and Adelaide and form part of many major collections. Four works were acquired for the New Parliament House Collection, Canberra, with one full set of prints purchased by Queensland University, other prints going to Deakin University, Gordon Institute, Gallery of New South Wales, Geelong Art Gallery and many more collections.
Turner was also commissioned by the Australian Print Council to produce a commemorative print.
Exhibitions
2023 More Serious Business Boom Gallery, Geelong*
2023 Geometric Code Red Gallery, Fitzroy North*
2022 Group Show Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
2022 Cubes Red Gallery, Fitzroy North*
2021 Group Show Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
2019 Pyramids of Time Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
2018 Curves Ahead Red Gallery, Fitzroy North*
2017 Bult to Last Red Gallery, Fitzroy North*
2016 ‘Serious Business’ Red Gallery, Fitzroy North*
2014 'Aztec' Boom Gallery, Geelong*
2013 'The Labyrinth', BOOM Gallery Geelong*
2012 Published book 'The Labyrinth' IBSN 978-0-646-57664-0
2011 Group Exhibition BOOM Gallery Geelong
Retrospective Geelong Art Gallery*
2005 Qdos Gallery, Lorne*
1994 Art House Sydney*
R.A.C.V. Building, Melbourne*
Wool Museum, Geelong
1993 Wholefoods Cafe, Geelong*
Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Southgate Melbourne*
1992 Wholefoods Cafe, Geelong*
1991 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne*
Survey Exhibition, Geelong Arts Gallery
1989 The Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta*
QDOS Gallery, Lorne*
1988 QDOS Gallery, Lorne*
Artery Gallery, Geelong*
Artery Gallery, Geelong*
1987 Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Queenscliff Fine Art Gallery, Queenscliff
1986 Retrospective, Deakin University, Geelong*
1985 Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Geelong*
Commissioned, Print Council of Australia
1984 Works Gallery, Geelong*
1983 Field Workshop, Melbourne*
1982 Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane*
1981 Rex Irwin's Gallery, Sydney*
Impressions Modern Print Gallery, Melbourne*
1980 Old Bank Gallery, Ballarat*
Survey Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery
1979 Group Show, Russell Davis Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Old Bank Gallery, Ballarat*
1976 Rex Irwin's Gallery, Sydney*
1975 Bartoni Gallery, Melbourne*
1974 Group Show, Bartoni Gallery, Melbourne
Upper Street Gallery, London*
1972 Geelong Art Gallery*
Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne*
1969 Represented Corio Five Star Whisky Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
* One-man exhibitions
Collections
New Parliament House Canberra (Four works)
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre
Albury Art Gallery
Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
Queensland University of Technology
Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong
Mount Gambier Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
Private collections
Reviews
Cita Campbell, ‘Arts Review’1974, London: “His technique is perfect, his colours good. My favourites are a series of modern Art Deco prints: elegant, handsome and rich looking”.
Jeffrey Makin, at the Bartoni International Gallery, Melbourne: “David Turner has totally consistent, professional exhibition of gouaches, prints and paintings”.
Jeffrey Makin, 1984 Geelong Survey Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery: “Turner is concerned for colour. Like Albers, Turner’s approach is methodical. Logical. Intent on exploring the variant possibilities of an unlimited pallete”.
Rod Carmichael, 1983 Geelong Advertiser: “His theme is the marketplace, small-goods counter and the butchers display and his masterly use of flat brilliant hues evokes the magical quality of sausages, hams suspended in theatrical loops”.
Pamela Ashcroft, Geelong Advertiser: Juke Box Series, Geelong Performing Art Centre: “Turner’s skill as a screen print maker in this current series is reaffirmed”.
These prints are all hand printed by the artist on Arches Vellum 240 gsm paper. They are in small editions of 8 to 10 prints with each print needing at least 10 to 15 individual screens that were either hand cut, drawn or from a photographic manipulated image.
This is a rare opportunity to purchase a significant piece of original artwork that will only appreciate in value.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
