About Me
EDUCATION:
2003 Undergraduate, Bachelor Arts degree, University of Adelaide, majoring in Analytical Philosophy.
1990 Bachelor of Visual Arts, S A School of Art, University of South Australia.
1987 Art & Craft Certificate, North Adelaide School of Art.
1975 Life Drawing Certificate, S A School of Art, S A C A E.
EXHIBITIONS:
2014 “Walking Thinking Walking” travelling solo, Bremerton Wines, Langhorne Creek.
2014 “Walking Thinking Walking” Hughes Gallery, Fullarton. (solo)
2014 “ERA We Live In” Peppers Street Arts Centre, Magill.
2013 “Little Treasures Exhibition”, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Magill.
2013 “Rhythm Tree”, solo exhibition, Angove McLaren Vale Vineyards & Cellar Door. (solo)
2013 2nd Red Threads Exhibition, Lincoln College
2013 “ERA WE LIVE IN”, Prospect Gallery, S A.
2013 St Ignatius Art Show, St Ignatius College
2013 “The Third of the Friends of SASA “20 x 20 Show”, Prospect Gallery S.A.
2012 “Red Threads”, Lincoln College, North Adelaide
2012 “Rhythm Walk”,Parlour Hair, Unley Road, Malvern.
2012 “Side Step”, The Promenade Gallery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park.
2012 Finalists Exhibition, Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize,
Keith Murdock House, Advertiser Building, Waymouth Street, Adelaide.
2012 “Accent on Rhythm”, Red Poles, McLaren Vale.
2011 ‘A Concoction of Brilliant Minds’, SALA Festival, Red Opus, Payneham Road St Peters.
2011 “Riff”, SALA Festival, Suzie Wong’s Room, Shop 2, 120 Port Road, Hindmarsh.
2011 “Prosodia“, SALA Festival, Parlour Hair, Shop 3, 227-235 Unley Road, Malvern,
2011 “Infinite Boundaries“, SALA Festival, Health Align, 266 Glen Osmond Road, Fullarton.
2011 “Second of the Friends Exhibition”, Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer, Adelaide.
2011 “Sagacity of Place”, Chapel Hill Winery, McLaren Vale.
2011 “Dynamics of Perception”. Red Opus Art Space, St Peters.
2010 “All I want is” Red Opus Art Space, Payneham Road, St Peters.
2010 “ChART” Exhibition, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Uni S A, Nth. Tce Adelaide.
2010 “Parallel Landscapes”, solo exhibition, The Gallery, Pikes Wines, Sevenhill via Clare
2010 Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, SALA
(South Australian Living Artists Festival), Keith Murdock Building, Adelaide.
2010 SALA Exhibition: Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road, Wayville, S A,
2010 “Fate of Place”, Parlour Hair, Shop 3, 227-235 Unley Road, Malvern S A, SALA Festival.
2010 SALA Exhibition: Naturally Massage & Wellness, SALA Festival7 Woodfield Ave.,
Fullarton S A, SALA Festival.
2010 “The Big Landscape”, SALA Exhibition, Art Images, 32 The Parade, Norwood.
2010 “Colores”, Red Opus Art Space, St Peters, S A, SALA Festival.
2010 “Complexities of the Mind”, Red Opus Art Space, St Peters S A.
2010 Friends of SA School of Art Exhibition, Regency Medical Centre, Sefton Park S A.
2010 Magnum Opus 2, Red Opus Art Space, Payneham Road, St Peters S A.
2010 Group exhibition with John Garforth, Eye2Eye Gallery, 95 Unley Road, Unley S A.
2010 “Food for thought”, Red Opus, Payneham Road, St Peters, S A.
2009 “Keeping Track(s), Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road,, Wayville, S.A.
2009 “Artificial Light”, at “Sunflowers & Mammograms” event, Tin Cat Café, Kent Town,
2009 “The Dark Side of Night”, Eye2Eye Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide.
2009 Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Award Finalists Exhibition, SALA Festival,
Keith Murdock Building, Adelaide.
2009 “Magnum Opus” Red Opus Art Space, group exhibition SALA Festival.
“Landscape of Secrets”, Eye 2 Eye Gallery, Adelaide.
2009 “Prevalence”, Unley Library, Goodwood.
2009 “The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power”, Without Pier Gallery, Vic
2008 “Pink Lady Charity Art Exhibition and Charity Event”, group show, Brighton, Victoria.
1995 “tabula rasa” solo exhibition Anima Gallery, Adelaide.
1993 “Members Show”, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
1993 “Fields of Undersee”, North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
1991 “dis (t) ance, “Dissonance” Aspects of Feminism & Art, University of S A Art Museum
1990 “Women in the Arts”, Loft Gallery, Living Arts Centre Adelaide.
1990 “First of Ninety Exhibition”, S A School of Art, Artzone Gallery, Adelaide.
1990 “A Twist in the Tightrope”, S A School of Art Gallery Art Museum.
1989 “Curious to Relate”, The Bullring, Jam Factory Payneham S A.
1987 “Dealing with Conditions”, Artzone Gallery, Adelaide.
1987 “First Year Student Exhibition”, S A School of Art Museum.
MEDIA RELEASES & INTERVIEWS:
2014 “Wildlife Observed”, Hillstyle, The Courier, Wednesday February 26th 2014, p 22.
2013 “SALA in Unley”, Unley Life, Spring 13, p3.
2009 Clayton, J., “Lois right on track”, Hillstyle, The Courier, Wednesday, November 18th
p33
2009 Radio Interview by Chris Lewis, “Weekday Magazine” 5MU 1125, Power FM,
2009 Radio Interview by Cath Kennealley, Radio Adelaide, 101.5, Saturday, 12 Sept 2009.
2009 Clayton, J.,“Artist explores journey to Dark Side of Night”, Hillstyle, The Courier, p.26.
2009 “Shades of light and Dark”, The Independent Weekly, Aug 28 – Sept 2009, p,32.
2009 Clayton, J.,”On Light and Life”, Hillstyle,The Courier, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
2009 Lois Turner, The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power,
Antiques & Art in Victoria, Dec 2008 – April 2009, p52.
2007 Clayton, J., “Breast Cancer survivor celebrates Life” Art Style, The Courier,
Wednesday, Sept 5th 2007 p33.
2009 Turner, L., “The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power”, Antiques & Art in
Victoria, Dec.08 – April 09 2009. P. 52.
INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARTS:
2013 Artist in Residence, November placement, Cleland Wildlife Park, Cleland SA.
2013 Exhibition Officer for the Friends of the South Australian School of Art
2012 Tutti,Silent Auction, donation of painting.
2013 Exhibition committee member, Friends of the South Australian School of Art.
2010 Charting Creative Business Connections Workshops, AbaF & Unley Council.
2010 Initiative to help fund the Friends of the South Australian School of Art History Project.
1990 Public Art Programme, Northern Gateway Project, Dept. of Environment & Panning.
1991 Visit to Aboriginal Settlement, Central Australia.
1992 S A Film Corp. Painting filmed only for backdrop for movie “Siam Sunset”.
AWARDS:
2013 Snap Printing Highly Recommended Award, “2nd of the Red Threads”, Lincoln College.
2013 Writing competition, Haiga Visual Art, 1st prize Salisbury Council.
2012 Writing competition, Haiga Visual Art, 2nd prize Salisbury Council.
2012 Design Inc Award for Painting, “Red Threads” exhibition, Lincoln College.
2012 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
2010 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
2009 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
1990 Soroptimist International Travel Award.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2013 Cleland Wildlife Park, Mt Lofty Ranges, Adelaide.
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES AND LOCAL BUSINESSES:
2011 Botanic Restaurant, Adelaide.
2011 Health Align, 266 Glen Osmond Road, Fullarton, S. A.
2011 Fountain Corner Family Practice, Unley Road Parkside, S A.
2010 Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road, Wayville S A.
2010 Maroondah Hospital, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, Davey Drive, Ringwood East, Victoria.
2010 Angliss Hospital, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria.
2009 Breast Logic, Leederville, Perth.
2009 Breast Logic, 74 Gawler Place, Adelaide.
2009 Permanent display, Transforma, Goodwood, S . A.
1995 Customs House, Pt. Adelaide, S A.
1993 “Coda” Window display, Bryan’s Hairdressing, Rundle Street, Adelaide
BIOGRAPHY
South Australian Artist Lois Turner investigates the rhythms of walking and the way it intersects with diverse environments. Since her graduation from the South Australian School of Art in 1990, Lois has exhibited prolifically both locally and interstate.
Personal experience focused Turner’s long-held fascination with rhythm. As a child, the tick ticking of her Mother’s metronome and the clicking of her heels against an old grey concrete gas box outside her home while watching traffic and daily life along her suburban street etched themselves deeply.
Turner continues this fascination by studying and experimenting with natural environs. She observes and decodes the rhythmic patterns and behaviours (living, manufactured, technological) experienced both consciously and unconsciously and often interactive between all three.
Her passion to understand the pulses of everyday life and its impact on people’s behaviour developed after visiting an Aboriginal Settlement in Central Australia in the 1990’s. Deeply influenced by the Aboriginal People’s spiritual attachment to the land, Turner had demonstrated to her how to view things seen and unseen, to tune into the secrets and dreamings, all entwined within the vast open landscape.
The challenge for her was how to interpret people’s connection to the land through a Western perspective. It was a natural progression to use walking as a structure to record her observations and chance encounters within urban landscapes.
In November 2013, Turner spent time as Artist in Residence in the Cleland Wildlife Park where she observed first-hand the rhythmic nature of wildlife (and visitor interaction) in a bushland setting.
For Turner, it is the actual movement of walking, the sights going by, the internal and external awareness of sounds, which continually inspire her to create. The simple act of walking through urban and country landscapes have become a purposeful part of her art-making process.
Turner effectively sheds new light on walking as an art practice. She is a member of the online Walking Artists Network that connects her to all those who are interested in walking as a mode of art practice.
The focus on multiple forms of rhythms suggests new and innovative ways of interpreting the Australian landscape.
2003 Undergraduate, Bachelor Arts degree, University of Adelaide, majoring in Analytical Philosophy.
1990 Bachelor of Visual Arts, S A School of Art, University of South Australia.
1987 Art & Craft Certificate, North Adelaide School of Art.
1975 Life Drawing Certificate, S A School of Art, S A C A E.
EXHIBITIONS:
2014 “Walking Thinking Walking” travelling solo, Bremerton Wines, Langhorne Creek.
2014 “Walking Thinking Walking” Hughes Gallery, Fullarton. (solo)
2014 “ERA We Live In” Peppers Street Arts Centre, Magill.
2013 “Little Treasures Exhibition”, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Magill.
2013 “Rhythm Tree”, solo exhibition, Angove McLaren Vale Vineyards & Cellar Door. (solo)
2013 2nd Red Threads Exhibition, Lincoln College
2013 “ERA WE LIVE IN”, Prospect Gallery, S A.
2013 St Ignatius Art Show, St Ignatius College
2013 “The Third of the Friends of SASA “20 x 20 Show”, Prospect Gallery S.A.
2012 “Red Threads”, Lincoln College, North Adelaide
2012 “Rhythm Walk”,Parlour Hair, Unley Road, Malvern.
2012 “Side Step”, The Promenade Gallery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park.
2012 Finalists Exhibition, Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize,
Keith Murdock House, Advertiser Building, Waymouth Street, Adelaide.
2012 “Accent on Rhythm”, Red Poles, McLaren Vale.
2011 ‘A Concoction of Brilliant Minds’, SALA Festival, Red Opus, Payneham Road St Peters.
2011 “Riff”, SALA Festival, Suzie Wong’s Room, Shop 2, 120 Port Road, Hindmarsh.
2011 “Prosodia“, SALA Festival, Parlour Hair, Shop 3, 227-235 Unley Road, Malvern,
2011 “Infinite Boundaries“, SALA Festival, Health Align, 266 Glen Osmond Road, Fullarton.
2011 “Second of the Friends Exhibition”, Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer, Adelaide.
2011 “Sagacity of Place”, Chapel Hill Winery, McLaren Vale.
2011 “Dynamics of Perception”. Red Opus Art Space, St Peters.
2010 “All I want is” Red Opus Art Space, Payneham Road, St Peters.
2010 “ChART” Exhibition, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Uni S A, Nth. Tce Adelaide.
2010 “Parallel Landscapes”, solo exhibition, The Gallery, Pikes Wines, Sevenhill via Clare
2010 Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, SALA
(South Australian Living Artists Festival), Keith Murdock Building, Adelaide.
2010 SALA Exhibition: Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road, Wayville, S A,
2010 “Fate of Place”, Parlour Hair, Shop 3, 227-235 Unley Road, Malvern S A, SALA Festival.
2010 SALA Exhibition: Naturally Massage & Wellness, SALA Festival7 Woodfield Ave.,
Fullarton S A, SALA Festival.
2010 “The Big Landscape”, SALA Exhibition, Art Images, 32 The Parade, Norwood.
2010 “Colores”, Red Opus Art Space, St Peters, S A, SALA Festival.
2010 “Complexities of the Mind”, Red Opus Art Space, St Peters S A.
2010 Friends of SA School of Art Exhibition, Regency Medical Centre, Sefton Park S A.
2010 Magnum Opus 2, Red Opus Art Space, Payneham Road, St Peters S A.
2010 Group exhibition with John Garforth, Eye2Eye Gallery, 95 Unley Road, Unley S A.
2010 “Food for thought”, Red Opus, Payneham Road, St Peters, S A.
2009 “Keeping Track(s), Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road,, Wayville, S.A.
2009 “Artificial Light”, at “Sunflowers & Mammograms” event, Tin Cat Café, Kent Town,
2009 “The Dark Side of Night”, Eye2Eye Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide.
2009 Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Award Finalists Exhibition, SALA Festival,
Keith Murdock Building, Adelaide.
2009 “Magnum Opus” Red Opus Art Space, group exhibition SALA Festival.
“Landscape of Secrets”, Eye 2 Eye Gallery, Adelaide.
2009 “Prevalence”, Unley Library, Goodwood.
2009 “The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power”, Without Pier Gallery, Vic
2008 “Pink Lady Charity Art Exhibition and Charity Event”, group show, Brighton, Victoria.
1995 “tabula rasa” solo exhibition Anima Gallery, Adelaide.
1993 “Members Show”, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
1993 “Fields of Undersee”, North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
1991 “dis (t) ance, “Dissonance” Aspects of Feminism & Art, University of S A Art Museum
1990 “Women in the Arts”, Loft Gallery, Living Arts Centre Adelaide.
1990 “First of Ninety Exhibition”, S A School of Art, Artzone Gallery, Adelaide.
1990 “A Twist in the Tightrope”, S A School of Art Gallery Art Museum.
1989 “Curious to Relate”, The Bullring, Jam Factory Payneham S A.
1987 “Dealing with Conditions”, Artzone Gallery, Adelaide.
1987 “First Year Student Exhibition”, S A School of Art Museum.
MEDIA RELEASES & INTERVIEWS:
2014 “Wildlife Observed”, Hillstyle, The Courier, Wednesday February 26th 2014, p 22.
2013 “SALA in Unley”, Unley Life, Spring 13, p3.
2009 Clayton, J., “Lois right on track”, Hillstyle, The Courier, Wednesday, November 18th
p33
2009 Radio Interview by Chris Lewis, “Weekday Magazine” 5MU 1125, Power FM,
2009 Radio Interview by Cath Kennealley, Radio Adelaide, 101.5, Saturday, 12 Sept 2009.
2009 Clayton, J.,“Artist explores journey to Dark Side of Night”, Hillstyle, The Courier, p.26.
2009 “Shades of light and Dark”, The Independent Weekly, Aug 28 – Sept 2009, p,32.
2009 Clayton, J.,”On Light and Life”, Hillstyle,The Courier, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
2009 Lois Turner, The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power,
Antiques & Art in Victoria, Dec 2008 – April 2009, p52.
2007 Clayton, J., “Breast Cancer survivor celebrates Life” Art Style, The Courier,
Wednesday, Sept 5th 2007 p33.
2009 Turner, L., “The Dark Side of Light at Night & the Carcinogens of Power”, Antiques & Art in
Victoria, Dec.08 – April 09 2009. P. 52.
INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARTS:
2013 Artist in Residence, November placement, Cleland Wildlife Park, Cleland SA.
2013 Exhibition Officer for the Friends of the South Australian School of Art
2012 Tutti,Silent Auction, donation of painting.
2013 Exhibition committee member, Friends of the South Australian School of Art.
2010 Charting Creative Business Connections Workshops, AbaF & Unley Council.
2010 Initiative to help fund the Friends of the South Australian School of Art History Project.
1990 Public Art Programme, Northern Gateway Project, Dept. of Environment & Panning.
1991 Visit to Aboriginal Settlement, Central Australia.
1992 S A Film Corp. Painting filmed only for backdrop for movie “Siam Sunset”.
AWARDS:
2013 Snap Printing Highly Recommended Award, “2nd of the Red Threads”, Lincoln College.
2013 Writing competition, Haiga Visual Art, 1st prize Salisbury Council.
2012 Writing competition, Haiga Visual Art, 2nd prize Salisbury Council.
2012 Design Inc Award for Painting, “Red Threads” exhibition, Lincoln College.
2012 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
2010 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
2009 Finalist in Advertiser Business S A Contemporary Art Prize Award for SALA Festival
1990 Soroptimist International Travel Award.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2013 Cleland Wildlife Park, Mt Lofty Ranges, Adelaide.
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES AND LOCAL BUSINESSES:
2011 Botanic Restaurant, Adelaide.
2011 Health Align, 266 Glen Osmond Road, Fullarton, S. A.
2011 Fountain Corner Family Practice, Unley Road Parkside, S A.
2010 Transforma, 43 Goodwood Road, Wayville S A.
2010 Maroondah Hospital, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, Davey Drive, Ringwood East, Victoria.
2010 Angliss Hospital, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria.
2009 Breast Logic, Leederville, Perth.
2009 Breast Logic, 74 Gawler Place, Adelaide.
2009 Permanent display, Transforma, Goodwood, S . A.
1995 Customs House, Pt. Adelaide, S A.
1993 “Coda” Window display, Bryan’s Hairdressing, Rundle Street, Adelaide
BIOGRAPHY
South Australian Artist Lois Turner investigates the rhythms of walking and the way it intersects with diverse environments. Since her graduation from the South Australian School of Art in 1990, Lois has exhibited prolifically both locally and interstate.
Personal experience focused Turner’s long-held fascination with rhythm. As a child, the tick ticking of her Mother’s metronome and the clicking of her heels against an old grey concrete gas box outside her home while watching traffic and daily life along her suburban street etched themselves deeply.
Turner continues this fascination by studying and experimenting with natural environs. She observes and decodes the rhythmic patterns and behaviours (living, manufactured, technological) experienced both consciously and unconsciously and often interactive between all three.
Her passion to understand the pulses of everyday life and its impact on people’s behaviour developed after visiting an Aboriginal Settlement in Central Australia in the 1990’s. Deeply influenced by the Aboriginal People’s spiritual attachment to the land, Turner had demonstrated to her how to view things seen and unseen, to tune into the secrets and dreamings, all entwined within the vast open landscape.
The challenge for her was how to interpret people’s connection to the land through a Western perspective. It was a natural progression to use walking as a structure to record her observations and chance encounters within urban landscapes.
In November 2013, Turner spent time as Artist in Residence in the Cleland Wildlife Park where she observed first-hand the rhythmic nature of wildlife (and visitor interaction) in a bushland setting.
For Turner, it is the actual movement of walking, the sights going by, the internal and external awareness of sounds, which continually inspire her to create. The simple act of walking through urban and country landscapes have become a purposeful part of her art-making process.
Turner effectively sheds new light on walking as an art practice. She is a member of the online Walking Artists Network that connects her to all those who are interested in walking as a mode of art practice.
The focus on multiple forms of rhythms suggests new and innovative ways of interpreting the Australian landscape.