How I work




	How I Work

		After the Turkish earthquake of 1999 I started placing rubble from the disaster on canvas outside and letting the weather do the drawing. Stains would appear around the objects, colour would soak in from them and the surrounding earth. I like to have a physical feeling for my colour, to use raw pigment, earth-even iron filings and also to combine several media together-like wax and paint. My work is now more straight forward in painting technique but I still keep this same tactile approach.


	Artist Statement


	2014 Events

My work often reflected my personal journey; My father, a left wing politician was imprisoned by the Turkish generals in the 1980`s for four years and our family had to fend for themselves. After this I was caught up in the 1999 Turkish earthquake. I made series of installation art works about these experiences, one of them; I call “Wind Chime”. These I made from fragments of a destroyed house. Another work was a small darkened cabinet, just big enough for one person to stand in, through which I played a recording of the earthquake itself.
Following on from that work, and feeling far from home, I began some paintings which dealt with my own experiences-like fear-especially claustrophobia. I worked in a special place I had found on Wimbledon Common. In a confined space there is no escape- in the open you can be seen from everywhere and you are equally vulnerable, yet, inexplicably, some places seem safer than enclosed ones.
The cold I experienced inside my room was another subject I explored-contrasting this with similar but oddly different cold experienced outside in woodland scenery. I continue now-still investigating, questioning and expressing my feelings in my art-most recently integrating my previous experiences and imagery with Norfolk Landscape.


	My C.V.

Born 1961     Istanbul         TURKIYE
Living and working in Norfolk, ENGLAND

EDUCATION
Chelsea School of Art and Design (MA), London         2001-2002
Wimbledon School of Art (BA), London                          1998-2001
Wimbledon School of Art (BTEC)                                    1997-1998

GROUP SHOWS

BAKU-Azerbaijan “Paint your maiden tower”      2010

Great Yarmouth Library Gallery “Renewal”      2010

Great Yarmouth Galleries, “Pictures For The People”, Central Library, Tolhouse Street, Norfolk 2006

Contemporary Norfolk Art-Salthouse 04, “Crossing the line” Curated by Manuel Chetcuti         2004

The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, UK, Exhibition with Emily Cole & Will Adams                             2004

Great Yarmouth Galleries, “Pictures for the People”, Central Library, Tolhouse Street, Norfolk 2004

The Hunting Exhibition, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2003

“14x14”, 10 curators, 400 art works, 200 artist, Flowlock Century Gallery, ACAVA
sponsored by Asahi, Soho Japan Hat on wall Sammy SR Network. 1-15 Cremer St, London E2 2002
Group Show, Colchester Institute, Essex 2002

“SV OPEN”, Studio Voltaire London 2002

“Bull Fighting”, Aldywich Tube Station London 2001

“Noumena” Studio Voltaire, A group show based on the Kantian theory. London 2001

ICA, small work, “One-offs and Multiples”. London 2001

Wimbledon Library Gallery 2001

Small Painting-Big Sculpture, Small Sculpture-Big Painting, Wimbledon Library Gallery, London 2001

“Seeing through the mechanical image” – Linbury drawing project-WSA 2001

Student Gallery, Wimbledon, SW 19 UK 2000

“GO to the Balcony” Art Festival, WS 2000

BHF Bank, London 1999

Wimbledon Library Gallery, London 1999

Student Gallery, Wimbledon SW19 UK 1998

“Celebrating Adult Learning” Chelsea-Hortensia 1996

SOLO EXHIBITION:
Philipe Gallery, London 2000

COLLECTIONS:
Mark Jennings Norfolk-England
David W Scammell London-England


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