Terrence P. R. Turner

Terrence Turner is a filmmaker and contemporary artist based in Vancouver, Canada.

Turner’s artwork celebrates the wonder and irony of the commonplace. His sculptures are based on drawings of everyday objects, figures and gestures. He infuses his sketches with life by transposing them into sculptures to give them a timeless three dimensionality.

Turner's film and photographic installations also use common markers, such as street signs and retail window displays, in ways that encourage us to rethink how we view the world.

Whether he is seeking to provoke or simply to entertain, the underlying objective of all Turner’s work is to challenge the status quo.

Sculptures

Terrence’s aluminum cut-outs celebrate familiar objects and encounters, freezing his subjects mid-motion and distilling their histories into a singular moment in time. Turner sketches these moments by hand, then renders them as sculptures emphasizing contour and negative space. Some pieces portray intimate or joyful experiences, while others act as symbols—their social and material histories conveyed through clean linework and suggestions of texture.

Lightboxes

Terrence’s lightbox works display photographs taken in Vancouver neighbourhoods. Partially imagined, partially caught by chance, these compositions feature his textual interventions and other overlooked details of public spaces.