Daniel Turner
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castle (dog-box)- packed. Wood ash ground into linseed oil on scrap pine box with pine and oak pegs containing various works, pine blocks, mallet, hammer, hand brush, and string with work light and flowerpots in garden shed, c. 107 x 49 x 48 cm (2021)
Bio
Organising, containing, tidying, carrying.
I’m fascinated by the ways in which containers and vessels are themselves transported and stored, and by the potential for objects generated by human activity to both enable and work to the detriment of movement and 'progress'.
This interest in where and how the distinction between a cultural artefact and a piece of detritus sits extends to chains of decay and reuse: whether that’s thinking about landfill and boxes in the attic, or Philip Guston’s ‘crapola’, or prehistoric midden heaps, compost bins and stock cooked from bones, or how people once used and reused rags.
With castle (dog-box), I wanted to see how a pile of ‘leftover’ objects might provide a way to unpack a situation or event; like an inventory notating a life that has been lived, or grave goods in a tomb acting as provision for a less tangible journey or existence to come.
Otherwise, I’ll be spying on dogs. Scheming on how to suck them into another dimension. All for me.
still from video of castle (dog-box) -packed- in use (2021)
rag box tabletop- oil on canvas stretched on hollowed-out pine plank scrap with pine pallet block, 10 x 12.5 cm (canvas dimensions) (2021)
bone boiler- oil on canvas stretched over hollowed-out pine plank scrap with pine pallet block, 10 x 10 cm (2021)
notice wall - oil on canvas stretched over hollowed-out pine plank scrap with pine pallet block, 14.5 x 10cm (canvas dimensions) (2021)
roof tarring - oil on canvas stretched over hollowed-out pine plank scrap with pine pallet block, 13.5 x 10cm (2021)
rat overcoat eye test- oil on canvas stretched over hollowed-out pine plank scrap with pine pallet block, 19 x 10 cm (canvas dimensions) (2021)
death of firstborn child / ratatouille- oil on canvas with drypoint and woodblock prints, pine pegs, and a sliding signal board on scrap pine planking, 43.5 x 19.5 cm (2020)
living room (verso)- oil on scrap pine strainer with pine pegs and feet, 60 x 33 x 8 cm (2021)
living room (recto)- oil on scrap pine strainer with pine pegs and feet, 60 x 33 x 8 cm (2021)
castle (dog-box)- unpacked. Wood ash ground into linseed oil on scrap pine box with pine and oak pegs containing various works, pine pallet blocks, mallet, hammer, hand brush, string, and sooty rags on dog towel, c. 107 x 49 x 48 cm (2021)
untitled (calcifer)- distressed watercolour, ink, and primer on papier mâché and cardboard with pine pallet block, 28 x 22 x 28 cm (2021)
untitled (calcifer)- distressed watercolour, ink, and primer on papier mâché and cardboard with pine pallet block, 28 x 22 x 28 cm (2021)
untitled (smiler helmet)- distressed watercolour, acrylic, and primer on papier mâché and cardboard with cotton painting canvas in garage space, 30 x 20 x 30 cm (2021)
untitled (smiler helmet)- distressed watercolour, acrylic, and primer on papier mâché and cardboard with cotton painting canvas in garage space, 30 x 20 x 30 cm (2021)
hungry house (picture frame / memento)- ash ground into linseed oil on primed papier mâché and cardboard with pine dog teeth, 15 x 18 x 45 cm (2021)
stack- bone boiler affixed to ground ash in linseed oil on papier mâché and cardboard stack with household string, 15 x 18 x 45 cm (2021)
untitled (flapboard)- distressed watercolour, ash ground into linseed oil, and primer on papier mâché and cardboard, 29 x 14.5 cm (2021) with roof tarring - oil on cotton duck canvas stretched on hollowed-out pine plank from pallet, 13.5 x 10cm (2021)
stacks- bone boiler and untitled (lookout) affixed to ground ash in linseed oil on papier mâché and cardboard stack with household string, 15 x 18 x 45 cm (2021)
controller- ink and ground ash mixed into linseed oil on primed papier mâché and carboard, 38 x 15 cm (2021) and bone boiler, oil on cotton duck canvas stretched on hollowed-out pine plank from pallet, 10 x 10 cm (2021)
I keep coming back to old images of polar explorers and travelling pedlars all lumbered up with their equipment. And to imagining big piles of tat and red rubber dog bones.
This box has acted as a vessel for my interests over the past couple of months. I needed a framework open enough to accommodate new works, ideas, and adaptations as they came up, but together enough to examine all these things alongside one another... a modular container to be packed up and unpacked and then packed again in various configurations.
In the future, I can imagine using it as a mobile station for printmaking workshops and storytelling sessions. Or as a pot-stand in the garden.
red barn- visualisation of installation (2021).
still from video of castle (dog-box) in use (2021)
still from video of castle (dog-box) in use (2021)
DRAWINGS + PRINTS
stump diggers (accident), pencil and ink on scrap paper, 21 x 14.5 cm (2021)
death of an aeronaut (inventory), colour pencil, ink, and watercolour on scrap paper, 16.5 x 16 cm (2021)
dissembler-drypoint on scrap paper, 14.5 x 10 cm (2021)
stump diggers (disturbance), pencil and ink on scrap paper, 14.5 x 10.5 cm (2021)
rake (death figure), watercolour and homemade nori paste woodcut prints from scrap pine onto paper, 21 x 14 cm (2021)
undercoat, drypoint proof, 14.5 x 10. 5 cm (2021)
living room, drypoint prints, 14.5 x 10.5 cm (2021)
volleyball i - scrap paper collagraphs with woodcut, watercolour, and pencil, c 10.5 x 14.8 cm each (2021)
co-conspirators- pencil, colour pencil, ink, and watercolour on hand-bound book, 10.5 x 15 cm (2021)
opportunity (knocks), pencil and ink on scrap paper, 14.5 x 10 cm (2020)
mid-development review drawings for castle (dog-box)- biro and ink on inkjet print-outs of digital collage, 21 x 29.7 (2021)
stump diggers (tar pit)- pencil, ink, colour pencil, and biro on scrap paper, 14.5 x 19.5 cm (2020)
notebook spread (2021)
domestic festivities (I- menagerie, and II- retriever)- pencil on paper scraps, 11 x 8.5 cm, 15 x 11 cm (2020)
thumbnails- biro and typewriter on paper scraps, c. 21 x 7 cm and 13 x 7 cm (2020)
with Duncan Turner (responsible for the wood store), red shed - various works installed in wood store built from pallets with birch, cherry, and ash logs, woodstore space c.170 x 130 x 100 cm (2021)
dissembler and model table on tabletop –drypoints with wood type prints on scrap paper affixed to pine blocks with tacks and nails, 25 x 60 x 20 cm (2021)
Daniel Turner
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Related student work
Traces (5…4…3…2…1…) Installation, (2021) 5 balls, 4 paintings, 3 handmade plaster casts, 2 paint buckets and 1 tennis racket, 176 x 167.5 x 25 cm
