CV. Exhibitions and performances
KEN TURNER
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2024 regular showing paintings since 1994 in the Newlyn Society of Artists
2023 Borlaise Smart Room – Porthmeor Studios -St, Ives
2022 PZ Gallery Penzance – retrospective exhibition of selected paintings
2019 Exhibition - Climate Change and performance - Fish Factory of Art
2019 performance in St. Ives – St. Ives society street presentation and performance
2019 Exhibited at Lost Meadow Gallery - Bodmin Cornwall
2010 Performance at Exchange Gallery Penzance, and KICK TO THE HEAD AND HEART OF ART BOOK
2009 October Get In The Ring NSA art & sport Exchange Gallery 6 day Thai drawing installation
2009 September Art cornwall interview -illustrated web page
2009 May Bristol West of England Academy NSA members show painting exhibition
2008 August Three Painters Trereife House Gallery, Newlyn Painting
2008 October This is Whatever Deleadus Gallery London E1 performance
2008 July Drawing the Line – mixed show Hilton Young Gallery Penzance Drawing
2008 July The Whatever Eyeprojects Falmouth University/Dartington Performance
2008 March Invigorate Artists Group Exchange Gallery Penzance Performance/Talk
2007 December paintings mixed show Hilton Young Gallery Penzance paintings
2007 November Lineage/Shifts in Perception Newlyn Art Gallery Performance
2007 September Shifts in Perception Cow Lane Gallery Manchester Performance
2007 April Unquiet Earth- Unquiet Mind NSA Mariners Gallery St Ives Performance
2007 March Mixed Ex. Postcard art Belgrave Gallery Paintings
2006 November One person Exhibition The Old Ship Gallery London Paintings
2006 September, Exhibition at Salthouse Gallery St. Ives paintings
2005 June The Potato Piece with Brackets Phoenix theatre Exeter performance
2004 Belgrave Gallery St Ives water colours Paintings
2004-2005 London Studio work on ‘Its All In The Mind’ performance-- an ongoing project on performance 2004
Nov Artists as Machines Newlyn Art Gallery performance/see website
2004 Aug video showing drawing with nude Newlyn Gallery video
2004 July watercolour paintings Belgrave Gallery St Ives mixed exhibition
2003 Van Gogh’s Boots Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre performance
2003 November Boots and Laces Newlyn Gallery performance art
2003 September Badcocks Gallery paintings exhibition with Sandra Blow
2002 July Boots Legs and Laces Video and performance in process
2002 March- Work in Progress with University of Brighton to set up SQALLP website and performance
2002 March SQALLP- bollard live art event Harbour, St. Ives performance art
2002 University of Brighton : Ongoing research in Live Art on video for the web
2001 Dec-Jan Work in video for 'Desire' Studio research/video
2001 Nov Language in Painting Transition Newlyn Gallery solo exhibition
2001 Aug-Sept Text in painting Salthouse Gallery St. Ives exhibition
2000 ‘Penwith Gallery Is Moribund’ Entrance doorway performance
2000 July SQALLP with belt & Brighton University Arts Council grant 8 day residency - 10 performance with
artists international in SQALLP intergenerational curator/performer
1999 Oct Art Occurrence Acorn Theatre performance & video
1999 Not Yet and No Longer' Contract Interiors solo exhibition
1998 Feb Arts Council/Combined arts project/gathering at 'belt' Research/archive grant March Research &
Development South West Arts grant
1998 July "Memory Trace Real' Millennium Gallery performance
1996 Aug 'Potatoes And Possibilities' Bristol Academy performance
1996 Oct 'A few words' Newlyn Gallery performance
1997 July 'Questioning Office Of Art' Quality of Light in parallel curator/ performance and Intervention Tate
Gallery St. Ives performance
1998 July 'Re De Enlightenment' QOOA Installation performance/cliff site
1997 Aug Launch of QOOA“The office” Millennium Gallery performance
1996 April May Founded QOOA (Questioning Office Of ART. (Website St.Ives
1996 Paintings NSA member Newlyn Gallery exhibition
1996 Goat Paths" Penzance Chapel performance
1996 Aug 'Potatoes And Possibilities' Bristol Academy performance
1996 Sept 'Philosophy, Art and other Tricks' Salthouse Gallery performance lecture Oct
1996 Oct 'A few words' Newlyn Gallery performance
1995 'Eight Times Four Sides' Newlyn Art Gallery performance
1995 July Retrospective of paintings Salthouse Gallery SWA grant solo exhibition
1994‘Angels Devils Deception' Salthouse Gallery performance
1994 Sept 'Memory Without Past' Penzance Arts Club performance
1994 Oct 'Doubtless 3' Newlyn Gallery & Dartington performance 1
1995 Aug ‘Doubtless 2’ Bretton Park, Yorkshire performance
1993 1994 Move to St. Ives Cornwall Rebuild Barns as Studio labour
1992 Establish 'General Specific' Reading Philosophy study
1992 'Doubtless ' Square Chapel Halifax performance
1991 'Boxes' England & Co London exhibition
1987 1987 Founder member of CRAG Burnley & Piece Hall Galleries exhibitions
1986 Move to Yorkshire
1985 The Tragic Sense of Life' ICA London performance
1985 July * Art in Architecture and Performance RIBA /York Minster 8 Day residency AC grant/curator
1984 'Threshold' for Brighton and Nottingham Zap Club commission performance
1984 "The Apple Tree" Architectural Association performance
1983 'Cennini's Private View Battersea Art Centre performance
1984 'Game Set Match' Brighton Festival performance “Muse
Museum' Zap Club Brighton performance
1982 "Early Greek Temple installation' Edinburgh Fringe Festival performance
1981 'Mirror' sculptural constructions Moira Kelly Gallery London/exhibition
1980 Founded Art Design and Building Centre in London as an art and arc
1997 July 'Questioning Office Of Art' Quality of Light in parallel curator/ performance Intervention at the Tate
Gallery St. Ives performance
1998 July 'Re De Enlightenment' QOOA Installation performance/cliff site
1997 Aug Launch of QOOA “The office” Millennium Gallery performance
1996 April May Founded QOOA Website St.Ives
1996 Paintings NSA member Newlyn Gallery exhibition
1996 Goat Paths" Penzance Chapel performance
1996 Sept 'Philosophy, Art and other Tricks' Salthouse Gallery performance lecture Oct
1995 'Eight Times Four Sides' Newlyn Art Gallery performance
1995 July Retrospective of paintings Salthouse Gallery SWA grant solo exhibition
1994‘Angels Devils Deception' Salthouse Gallery performance
1994 Sept 'Memory Without Past' Penzance Arts Club performance
1994 Oct 'Doubtless 3' Newlyn Gallery & Dartington performance
1995 Aug ‘Doubtless 2’ Bretton Park, Yorkshire performance
1993 1994 Move to St. Ives Cornwall Rebuild Barns as Studio labour
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992 Establish 'General Specific' Reading Philosophy study
1992 'Doubtless ' Square Chapel Halifax performance
1991 'Boxes' England & Co London exhibition
1987 1987 Founder member of CRAG Burnley & Piece Hall Galleries exhibitions
1986 Move to Yorkshire
1985 The Tragic Sense of Life' ICA London performance
1985 July * Art in Architecture and Performance RIBA /York Minster residency AC grant /curator
1984 'Threshold' for Brighton and Nottingham Zap Club commission performance
1984 "The Apple Tree" Architectural Association performance
1984 'Game Set Match' Brighton Festival performance "Muse Museum' Zap Club Brighton performance
1983 'Cennini's Private View - Battersea Art Centre performance
1982 "Early Greek Temple installation' Edinburgh Fringe Festival performance
1981 'Mirror' sculptural constructions Moira Kelly Gallery London/exhibition
1980 Founded Art Design and Building Centre in London as an art and architecture workshop
1979 Founded Action Space Circus Isle of Wight as a performance art group.
1967 – 1978 Founded and co-curated and directed 'Action Space' as a Charitable Trust with a revenue grant
from the Arts Council, The London Borough of Camden, GLA and private Trusts.
Action Space was established to promote the theory and practice of art in the community (not as
community art) based first in Kentish Town and then The Drill Hall, Chennies Street, off Tottenham Court
Road London.
Worked and performed at Harrogate, Edinburgh, York, Chichester, Cardiff and many others centres in the UK
and abroad directing performance and installations for action space.
1971 Arts Council BLOW UP project at Serpentine Gallery, Cardiff and Liverpool
1974 Interdrama at Academy De Kunst, Berlin. Also Institute of Contemporary Art London
1977 Rotterdam Festival, Amsterdam and Beethoven Festivals in Holland and Bonn.
1968 & 1969 Environmental Structure Wapping Residency as Action Space with Arts Council Grant
1967 Joan Littlewood’s Bubble city and plastic paradise in the City of London Installation/action space
1964 to 1966 Solo Exhibitions: Paintings & Structures *ICA - *Meals Mansard Gallery, -*Lords galleriesLondon
1954 -1962 Mixed Exhibitions: Tate Gallery London,
1954 Beaux Arts Gallery supported by John Berger,
Partisan, London Group, AIA, Centre 42,
1954 First Group Tour of Paintings to 12 Municipal Galleries.
1985 A weeks residency At York Minster with Ron Haselden, Paul Neagu, Stuart Jones, Sylvia Hallet, Pamela
Hiley, David Templer, Rosemary Moore, Linda Martin, Kate Baker, Polanca Brown, building structures and
making a performance for Art & Architecture as an experiment in interdisciplinary skills collaboration, working
in the grounds of York Minster. Commission from Royal Institute of British Architects, funded by Arts Council.
TEACHING: Central St. Martins and Architectural Association, London, for many years, during 1965 to 1990.
PUBLICATIONS and reviews:
CRASHING CULTURE an artist notebook from 1954 to 2016 - 282 pages in colour
A LIFE BEING KEN TURNER 1960 to 2022 - 116 pages in colour
1966 Studio International on Art as Something Public – by Edward Lucie-Smith
1970 "Working Big" - a book on working with young people.‘Left Shift’ — work in action space
pub. I B Taurous by John A Walker
1971 Theoria to Theory Vol 5 Cambridge University
1976 Radical Technology 'Undercurrents'1996 Drawing Towards the End of the Century
2002 Newlyn Society of Artists in ARTNSA- 2000
2000 ‘Eight Day Residency;in Brighton in collaboration with the University - Report
2000 Report on SQALLP (Systems Questioning Art Live Life. Full report
In ‘Crashing Culture'
2002 ‘Making Waves’ as new directions by Tom Cross
2005 ‘Face to Face’ British self portraits in the 20c –Phillip Vann
2007 ZAP twenty five years of innovation – zap art and queenspark books
AWARDS: Arts Council - Camden Council - South West Arts. Collections: Arts Council and private
collectors
COMMISSIONS: Various for Action Space throughout the UK and Abroad (Bonn, Berlin and
Amsterdam) - Zap in Brighton - Joan Littlewood London-Architectural Association performance -
Dartington Arts Centre for performance and Teaching - Newlyn Art Gallery Performances
Website: http://
www.imaginativeeye.co.uk
Instagram contact: ken2sqallp
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