Discipline
Conceptual
Installation / Land / Site-specific
Material
Found Objects
Mixed media
Wood/Paper
Region
South East
Yorkshire and the Humber
Biography
Stephen Turner’s practice is concerned with aspects of time and the relationship between transience and permanence. His work often involves spending long periods in odd abandoned places, noting changes in the complex relationship between people and the natural environment. His projects are rooted in research, which explore these themes in a variety of media (including performance, photography, video and the written word as well as drawing and sculpture). In an age of hubris he endeavours to provide a voice for mute nature – to be amanuensis to the tides, terns and turnstones and to offer a reminder that all life is interconnected and equally evolved.
Stephen Turner in Conversation with Simon Hitchens FRSS, November 2021. Stephen shared his experience of 2012-21 with the ‘lean and green’ Exbury Egg and his life as its eggman. Treading lightly on the land in an increasingly urban unsustainable 21st century, he explores our troubled relationship with the natural world.