Harvey is the co-founder
of the Turps Banana art school, gallery and magazine, which is devoted to painting.
One of the things I like in
each of the Turps Banana volumes is the way the varied conversations interconnect, almost like they are themselves conversing with each other, so that it is this process of conversation, reported and imagined, that pleasurable learning takes place for the reader, and thinking of pleasure, the pictures are great!
The new issue
of Turps Banana also includes interviews with, or articles about painters such as, Tomma Abts, Christopher P. Wood, Che Lovelace, Gavin Lockheart, René Daniëls and Rose Wylie.
In Issue Ten
of Turps Banana, Scully, talking to Peter Dickinson about the bad reception abstract art gets in the UK, says that looking at abstract art «requires contemplation and time»
Unlikely; the cult
of turp moral superiority is strong here, just not grounded in any facts.
Not exact matches
I fully believe Snell or Reagor or Manning can be excellent additions on special teams, but as long as
Turp is healthy he's one
of the most dangerous players I've ever watched.
No, but neither were the PSU admins, they both failed, but the
turps did have the advantage
of an actual confession to take to authorities, no doubt to fall back on, not a vague allegation.
My urologist wants to perform a button
Turp which he says will greatly reduce the symptoms
of BPH and overactive bladder.
You can see around this apple that I started fairly pale and for the darker patches to the left I was using the technique the encountered at the beginning
of working undiluted paint into the surface with a
turps soaked brush.
You will need to play about with how much
turps to have on the brush, because all brushes hold different amounts
of liquid.
Fill two egg - cup sized containers a third
of the way with
turps (or white spirit) add a pea
of alizarin crimson to one and a pea
of violet to the other and dissolve the paint fully (preferably with a different brush to the one you will be using).
And whilst on the subject
of bananas, though nothing at all to do with the
Turps Banana, I couldn't help but connect to the blog posts I saw yesterday at Geokult on Carmen Banana, Big Banana Time, and Going Bananas)
This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows
of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show
of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at
Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!
The point
of «Women Can't Paint» at the ASC and
Turps Banana galleries is to prove that they can, contrary to Georg Baselitz's notorious barb.
Continuing the learning theme there's a couple
of pages about the
Turps Art School taking applications for the studio programme September 2013 — August 2014 and the correspondence course October 2013 — September 2014.
Tagged with abstract portrait, art, Clare Woods, Hepworth Wakefield, Mead Gallery, Moira Dryer, The Indiscipline
of Painting, The Unquiet Head, Tomma Abts,
Turps Banana
In September 2012,
Turps Banana, the painting magazine written exclusively by painters, will open the doors
of its new art school based in Bermondsey.
In
Turps Banana, the interview is supplemented by some excellent reproductions, all
of early work.
Check out this post at Abstraction Blog with some good photos
of three new Scully paintings at his current show at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, and a link to itunes where you can download
Turps Banana.
What he says in
Turps Banana about contemplation and time possibly hints at a way
of viewing that approaches spirituality in the sense
of meditation.
In conjunction with the show, we are delighted to announce the publication
of a book
of Nigel Cooke's writings, Words, which includes an edit
of his PhD Thesis, The Ambivalence
of the Undead, or the Nature
of Painting's Essence, as well as a selection
of shorter works originally published in Tate Etc., Art Review,
Turps Banana, Transmission Annual — Hospitality, and in a publication on Ansel Krut.
On the eve
of her solo Serpentine show, the artist shows our writer round her Kent cottage — then dabs her down with
turps
Sarah Lucas; Mel Brimfield; Elizabeth McAlpine;
Turps Banana; Natascha Sadr Haghighian; Jennet Thomas; Francis Upritchard; Tim Rollins and K.O.S.; Beasts
of Revelation; Sharon Hayes; Ghosts in the Machine; Tomás Saraceno; Jack Goldstein; ACIREMA; Everywhere and on Everything; Jimmie Durham; Marisa Merz; I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have; Tal R Johanne; Laurent Grasso; Petrit Halilaj; Mark Borthwick; Christoph Hänsli; Tony Camargo; Zhao Yao; Art Factory Project
Harvey is the co-founder
of the «
Turps Banana», a magazine devoted to painting and written by painters (www.turpsbanana.com).
2015 Edge
of Silence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2015 Tutti Frutti,
Turps Gallery, London, UK 2015 Figuratively Speaking, Heike Moras Art, London, UK
2008
Turps Banana, «Hypersurface», Sarah Douglas, Issue 4, October, 2008 2007 The Independent on Sunday, «The Conquest
of Space», Charles Darwent, March 11 2007 ArtUS.
He's great on wet paint, especially in his descriptions
of Albert Oehlen's brushwork --» grids
of dots, and passages
of fluid, slashing brush marks «bundled» like kindling... veils, which are often made from dirty
turps and some interesting, jewelescent earth tones, give the paintings the feeling
of being seen from inside a sock.»
, Kunstverein Hamburg, DE Barock, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE), Naples, IT Magic Show, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK Play, Paradise Row, London, UK Il Faut Être Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row, Istanbul, TR Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CA Medals
of Dishonour, British Museum, London, UK Classified, Tate Britain, London, UK Mapping the Studio, Francois Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice, IT Drawing Room 2009 Biennial Fundraiser, Drawing Room Gallery, London, UK Inspired, City Museum, Glasgow, UK
TURPS BANANA 2, Galleria Marabini, Milan, IT Accrochage, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, DE Gothic, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK The Art
of Chess, Reykjavik Museum, Reykjavik, IS
TURPS BANANA 1, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, IT Desenhos: A a Z (Drawings A to Z), Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, PT Another Mythology, National Center
of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU In Praise
of Shadows, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
A limited edition silkscreen print
of the Keith Coventry painting Aylesbury Estate will be produced by Shapero Modern, who will donate ten per cent
of the retail value to the
Turps Art School.
In Canada, law professor Daniel
Turp attempted to bring an action for judicial review in federal court against the Minister
of Foreign Affairs for approving permits to provide light armored vehicles produced by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada to Saudi Arabia.