Nick Turvey

Massive Orange Object
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 275 x 25 x 180 cm.

A giant lens creates an intense disruption of space, the object itself transformed into a phenomenon or force field, deconstructing and re-ordering perception.

Commissioned by Lambeth Arts and Mount Anvil. Permanently installed outside the old South Bank University in London. The address is 345 Wandsworth Road, London SW8, next to the junction with Lansdowne Way.
Massive Orange Object
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 275 x 25 x 180 cm.

Commission for Mount Anvil, London. A giant lens creates an intense disruption of space, the object itself transformed into a phenomenon or force field, deconstructing and re-ordering perception.
Massive Orange Object
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 275 x 25 x 180 cm.

A giant lens creates an intense disruption of space, the object itself transformed into a phenomenon or force field, deconstructing and re-ordering perception.

Commissioned by Lambeth Arts and Mount Anvil. Permanently installed outside the old South Bank University in London. The address is 345 Wandsworth Road, London SW8, next to the junction with Lansdowne Way.
Posy
2009. Stainless steel & lacquer. 320 (w) x 320 (d) x 320 cm (h)

Project for Spitalfields. Flowers are not only a reminder of the mathematics that lurks beneath appearances, but have also always been potent symbols. The title invites the viewer to use that language of flowers to unpick the history of this place.
Genius Loci
2009. Seaweed. 400 x 130 x 40 cm.
Eidola
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 600 x 400 x 120 cm.

Sculpture commission for City Offices, London. A shimmering cloud of watery ripples is created from fifty custom-made, giant, fresnel lenses, which multiply and magnify the view of the street, transforming it into a piece of kaleidoscopic cinema.
Eidola
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 600 x 400 x 120 cm.

Sculpture commission for City Offices, London. A shimmering cloud of watery ripples is created from fifty custom-made, giant, fresnel lenses, which multiply and magnify the view of the street, transforming it into a piece of kaleidoscopic cinema.
Eidola
2009. Polyurethane and stainless steel. 600 x 400 x 120 cm.
Sculpture commission for City Offices, London. A shimmering cloud of watery ripples is created from fifty custom-made, giant, fresnel lenses, which multiply and magnify the view of the street, transforming it into a piece of kaleidoscopic cinema.
Curved Glass
Solo exhibition

Museum of the History of Science

17th March – 17th May 2009

Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ.
Tuesday – Friday 12.00 – 17.00 hrs.
Saturday & Sunday 10.00 – 17.00 hrs.

Image: Nothing Comes Into Being (detail)
SpinState
2008. Acrylic & stainless steel. 73 x 73 x 10 cm.
SpinState
2008. Acrylic & stainless steel. 73 x 73 x 10 cm.
Ovoid
2008. Steel & bitumen. 14 m (dia.) x 6 m (h).
At high tide, water will slowly begin to spill over the edge, building in volume until it becomes a thunderous cascade. The void is filled and, for a brief time, the sculpture disappears completely. But, as the tide falls, the vessel drains and emerges again, in an endless cycle of renewal, a reminder of change as the only reality.
Ovoid
2008. Steel & bitumen. 14 m (dia.) x 6 m (h).
Project for Belfast. Developed in association with Dewhurst Macfarlane. Shortlisted for lead artwork commission in the Titanic Quarter development.
A giant steel vessel, an ambiguous hybrid of rusty spaceship, lotus bud and industrial relic, seems to hover on the water. As the tide rises, it is slowly submerged and, as this happens, object is transformed into void. Eventually, with waves rippling around its rim, the sculpture becomes a massive, paradoxical hole in the water – a dark, resonant absence, a space of memory, of loss and forgetting, histories both personal and collective.
Big Blue
2008. Stainless steel, glass, water and dye. 250 x 250 x 50 cm.

Project for Bury Divisional Police Headquarters. A giant, blue lens, intentionally reminiscent of a magnifying glass, calls to mind the exploits of beloved, fictional super-sleuths. However, for visitors arriving on foot, the lens frames and magnifies the headquarters, and it is the police themselves that are presented for scrutiny, in a playful take on the idea of accountability.
RBS Bursary
2008. Two year award from the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Ten sculptors of outstanding talent and potential, selected by competition each year to receive free membership and participate in a curated exhibition at the RBS Gallery.

Image: SpinState (detail)
Some Things Occur by Necessity
2007. Lead Crystal. 30 x 26 cm.
Glass has been intimately entangled with the development of scientific thinking, from the alembics of the alchemists to the instruments of Hooke and Galileo. Here, the medium and process of working with hot glass has been used as a plastic, polydimensional algebra, a cloud chamber of tracks and traces frozen in massive thicknesses that bend light like gravity.
Some Things Occur by Necessity
2007. Lead Crystal. 30 x 26 cm.
Glass has been intimately entangled with the development of scientific thinking, from the alembics of the alchemists to the instruments of Hooke and Galileo. Here, the medium and process of working with hot glass has been used as a plastic, polydimensional algebra, a cloud chamber of tracks and traces frozen in massive thicknesses that bend light like gravity.