Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner is a Scottish artist raised in Dubai, who moved to New Zealand in the late eighties. His brightly coloured abstract shapes are a style Turner has been working on for some time, citing Wellington artist Robert McCleod as mentor who taught him a lot and influenced him even more.
Turner says that it is the prospect of what you can do with perspective that drives him to create. “It’s the idea of perspective and the way that you can use perspective to create depth and colour. It’s that manipulation of perspective that is very similar to graffiti art, which is why I like working with graffiti artists.”
When writing the proposal for a graffiti art exhibition at ‘Artspace’ in 1996, Turner wrote “Graffiti is a statement of youth, the public saying, “we live here too, we are alive, and this is who we are.” That was in 1996, when graffiti was fighting for survival.
From his first exhibition at Cafe DKD in 1989 to the present, there are a handful of recurring themes in Turner’s work. Among them are landscapes and buildings. It is the latter, and particularly sky-scrapers, that he is most excited about, expressing that he would love to have some of his paintings made into real buildings someday.
Artwork
Examples of Andrew’s work can be hired here and at Mobile Art Gallery, 23 Edwin Street, Mt Eden
And in the online exhibition space here