Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present William Turnbull: Paintings 1959–1962, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation focuses on a seminal period in Turnbull’s career, offering a rare opportunity to experience a group of works that have seldom been shown in public.

William Turnbull (1922–2012) was a central figure in postwar British art, whose practice spanned both painting and sculpture with an uncommon balance of form, colour and abstraction. Born in Dundee and based in London for most of his life, Turnbull emerged in a cultural climate that remained tied to figurative and romantic modes of expression. In the years immediately following World War II, British art was still marked by reconstruction and restraint, with abstraction regarded by many as a foreign or overly intellectual pursuit. Against this backdrop, Turnbull’s engagement with international modernism signaled a decisive and independent direction.

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Artists: William Turnbull