Joshua Turner’s ‘Float like a feather, sink like a stone’
Joshua Turner
Float like a feather, sink like stone (2024)
Hand-bound book: (double gatefold silkscreen cover, handprinted on GFSmith Colourplan)
Turner is a photographic practitioner based in the North West of England, who uses photography to explore and contemplate the relationship between the land and the individual. In an ongoing practice, he uses books and prints to gather ideas into bodies of work that are simultaneously concerned with existential ideas and personal interactions.
‘Float like a feather, sink like a stone’ explores the Chew Valley, a landscape to the East of Manchester where the Pennines rise.
This body of work weaves through the land, observing natural forms, ecological intervention, and post-industrial structures, considering the transitional aesthetics of the English countryside.
Turner has exhibited across the UK, including at the Brunswick, Leeds, Paradise Works, Salford, and the London Metropolitan School of Art. He is currently Photographic Technical Demonstrator at the University of Salford.
Float like a feather, sink like stone (1) (2024)
Silver gelatine fibre-based print from negative
Float like a feather, sink like stone (2) (2024)
Silver gelatine fibre-based print from negative
The images above are install shots of Turner’s silver gelatine fibre-based prints.
Joshua Turner
Float like a feather, sink like stone (2024)
Hand-bound book: (double gatefold silkscreen cover, handprinted on GFSmith Colourplan)
The images above are close-up shots of Turner’s hand-bound book.
Photographs on this page courtesy of Sam Parker, UoS Art Collection Team Assistant
