Joanna Turland

Available Works

Biography

Joanna Turland is a Contemporary Painter and graduate of Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. The Artist has been shortlisted for prestigious Awards and Prizes such as the BP Portrait Award, the Clyde and Co Art Award and the Signature Art Prize. The Artist has shown her work internationally including the Luxembourg Contemporary Art Fair as well as showing her work in London and Madrid. Joanna Turland has had 3 solo shows to date and held her first international solo show ‘Curious tales’ with Steingast Gallery in Vienna, Austria 2023. The Artist works with symbols and metaphor to inform the allegory of her work. The paintings are woven with a deep personal mythology incorporating both her imagined and material world. Portraits are mixed with archetypes, imagined spaces with the material. The Artist is concerned with intuition and scaling the depths of the unconscious psyche. Through the language of paint and an intuitive approach the Artist tells evocative and compelling stories about her life and personal lore.

Education

BA, Wimbledon College of Art, 2015-2018

Press

2023, Curious Tales, Steingast Gallery

2023, Artist Talk, Steingast Gallery

2022, Meet the Artist, Steingast Gallery

2022, Artists Chat - Everybody Should Go To Therapy, Georgina May Saunders

2022, Interview with John Baryne, BBC Radio Suffolk

2022, Interview with Lisa Lockheart, Felixstowe Radio

2021, Interview with Jon Wright, BBC Radio Suffolk

2020, Chat and Draw, Georgina May Saunders

2019, Unique Artists Celebrated at Arlington’s in Ipswich, Suffolk Business

2019, Something Blue, LARA

2018, Joanna Turland, Orbit Art Show

2018, Joanna Turland, Trinity Art Studios

2018, Unity London, Trinity Art Studios

Exhibitions

2023, Curious Tales, Steingast Gallery, Vienna, Austria (Solo)
2022, A Tiger's Tears, Asylum Studios, Suffolk, UK (Solo)
2022, End of Residency, SET Studios Dalston, London, UK (Solo)
2022, Everybody Should Go To Therapy, 142 Gallery, Suffolk, UK (Solo)
2022, Beyond Nature, Steingast Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria (Group)
2022, Luxembourg International Contemporary Art Fair, The Van Gogh Art Gallery, Luxembourg (Group)
2022, SET Studios Dalston, London, UK (Group)
2021, MDRN Unplugged, S&P Gallery Kensington, London, UK (Group)
2021, True to Life, AucArt, Online, London, UK (Group)
2020, Instagram Aesthetic, Peter Pears Gallery, Suffolk, UK (Group)
2020, Graduating in Paint, London Altlier of Representational Art, LARA, London, UK (Group)
2020, Let The Grass Grow Beneath Your Feet, Trinity Art Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2019, Unity Arts Festival, London, UK (Group)
2019, Discovery Sessions, Trinity Art Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2019, Arlington’s Group Exhibition, Suffolk, UK (Group)
2019, Signature Art Prize, Trinity Art Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2018, Winter Show, Trinity Art Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2018, Arlington’s Permanent Public Collection, Suffolk, UK (Group)
2018, Clyde & Co. Art Award, London, UK (Group)
2018, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, Degree Show, London, UK (Group)
2018, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, Interim Show, London, UK (Group)
2017, BP Portrait Award Shortlist, London, UK (Group)
2017, Contemporary Figurative Painting, London, UK (Group)
2017, Acts React, Collaborative Exhibition as ‘Five’ London, UK (Group)
2015, Recipients of Wimbledon College of Arts Trustees Prize, London, UK (Group)
2014, Capsticks Law Firm, London, UK (Group)