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6/12/2007

SNO 34

SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney

Yvo Hartmann, and Clint Doyle exhibit, as well as a group show: Atotal, in which Thomas Wildner (Germany), Jasper van der Graaf (Netherlands) and Jan Maarten Voskuil (Netherlands) present a follow up to the exhibition Surplus held last year at H29 in Brussels.

Sound Artist program: Daniel Menche.

A.D.S. Donaldson presents Boyd Turner :

The painter Boyd Turner first exhibited his work in Sydney in 1959, placing him in the second generation of artists in Australia to engage with the attitudes and ideas around abstraction.

In that remarkable year Turner's paintings were first seen in May, in an exhibition of the G.E. Rodan Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Sydney. Later that month Dr. George Berger curated his work into an important survey exhibition,'Thirty-eight Mid-Century Sydney Painters', which toured New South Wales. In that exhibition Turner's work 'The Seventh Day' was hung besides paintings by Grace Crowley, Ralph Balson, Elwyn Lynn, Margo Lewers, Stan Rapotec and Dahl Collings, amongst others.

In August Turner held his first one-person exhibition, and only the second exhibition ever, at Gallery A in Flinders Lane in Melbourne. He shared the gallery with Clement Meadmore and in the catalogue Tom Gleghorn took the opportunity to observe that "the young Sydney painter (was) rapidly growing in stature as an abstract artist" and that "One is always aware of the sincerity in the art of Boyd Turner". For a mid-century Australian modernist there was no higher compliment than to be called "sincere".

Later that year Turner submitted his 'Meditation' to an 'Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture' in association with the Australian and New Zealand Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament at the Victorian Artists Society Galleries in Melbourne, and in 1960 he was included in 'Young Painters' at the Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney, along with Robert Hughes, Martin Sharp, Royston Harpur and Colin Lancely, amongst others.

Boyd Turner's work had not been seen in public since then until last year when the Sydney artist A.D.S. Donalson curated 'Balson, Crawford, Donaldson, Turner, Watson' at the Charles Nodrum Gallery in Melbourne. Following on from that experience, Turner will present new work for his exhibition at SNO, only his second ever one-person exhibition. It is perhaps only artists of Boyd's generation who are able today to both reach back in time and project forward into the future, something the hitherto little known octogenarian painter Boyd Turner is uniquely placed to do.

Opening december 7, 2007

SNO Contemporary Art Projects
175 Marrickville Road - Sydney

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