JOANNA TURLAND
Joanna Turland is a Contemporary Painter and graduate of Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London.
The Artist works with symbols and metaphor to inform the allegory of her work. The paintings are woven with a deep personal mythology incorporating both her imagined and material world. Portraits are mixed with archetypes, imagined spaces with the material. Through the language of paint and an intuitive approach the Artist tells evocative and compelling stories about her life and personal lore.
The Artist has been shortlisted for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, BP Portrait Award, the Clyde and Co Art Award and the Signature Art Prize.
The Artist has shown her work internationally including the Luxembourg Contemporary Art Fair as well as showing her work in London and Madrid. Joanna Turland has had three solo shows to date and held her first international solo show Curious Tales with Steingast Art Gallery in Vienna, Austria 2023.
Website : www.joannaturland.co.uk
Instagram: @joannaturland.artist
Facebook: @joannaturland.artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
"My paintings are wayward things, prone to wandering off to unexpected places, full of stories and strangeness.
Each painting directs me toward its fruition and I do my best to help them become whole, all the while knowing they are never fully mine. My process is an intuitive one and exists in tandem with my magic and spiritual practice, these two aspects of my life often dance together. I find the works carry their own allegory, passing between the esoteric and the everyday. Sometimes they arrive half-formed, stubborn and silent, while other times they spill out effortlessly, as if impatient to be seen." - Joanna Turland
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows:
2023 Curious Tales, Steingast Gallery, Vienna
2022 A Tigers' Tears, Asylum Studios, Suffolk
2022 End of residency solo show at SET Studios Dalston, London
2022 Everybody should go to therapy, 142 Gallery, Suffolk
Group shows:
2022 Beyond Nature, Steingast Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna
2022 Luxembourg International Contemporary Art Fair showing with with Van Gogh Art Gallery
2021 MDRN unplugged group show, S&P Gallery Kensington, London
2021 True to life, AUCART Online
2020 Instagram Aesthetic, Peter Pears Gallery, London
2020, Graduating in Paint, London Altlier of Representational Art, LARA, London
2020, Let The Grass Grow Beneath Your Feet, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2019, Unity Arts Festival, London
2019, Discovery sessions, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2019, Art Fair, Arlingtons, Suffolk
2019, Signature Art Prize, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018, Winter Show, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018, Arlingtons Ipswich
2018, Clyde & Co Art Award
2018, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, Degree Show, London
2018, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, Interim Show, London
2017, BP Portrait Award Shortlist, London
2017, Contemporary Figurative Painting, London
2017, Acts React, London
2015, Recipients of Wimbledon College of Arts Trustees Prize
2014 Capsticks Law Firm, London
RESIDENCIES
2022 SET STUDIOS Dalston, London 1 month residency
2022 Asylum Studios, Suffolk 3 week residency
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2022 Holly Bush Emerging Women’s Painting Prize, Longlisted
2019 Clyde & Co Art Award Shortlisted, London
2017 BP Portrait Award Shortlist, London
2015 Recipients of Wimbledon College of Arts Trustees Prize
ART FAIRS
2022 Luxembourg International Contemporary Art Fair, Luxembourg
2019 Arlingtons Art Fair, Suffolk
2010 - 2015 Art On The Prom, Suffolk
PRESS
2022 Artists Chat - Everybody should go to therapy interview with Georgina May Saunders
2022 BBC Radio Suffolk, interview with John baryne
2022 Felixstowe Radio, interview with Lisa Lockheart
2021 BBC radio suffolk, interview with Jon Wright
2020, chat and draw, Georgina May Saunders interview
2019, Unique artists celebrated at Arlingtons in Ipswich, Suffolk Business
2019, Something Blue, LARA
2018, Joanna Turland, Orbit Art Show
2018, Joanna Turland, Trinity Art Studios
2018, Trinity Art Studios, Unity London