Works on paper, wood, textiles and in mixed media by Edinburgh artist, maker and designer Gail Turpin.

GT art web home dummy pic and ladder

Selected works

Marriage quilt 1951
Dye, hand and digital print on found and mixed textiles
Clearing 1
Dye and hand printing on found and mixed textiles
Nesting 6
Giclée print
Between 10
ink & acrylic on wood
Clearing blanket 2
Dye and hand printing on found and mixed textiles
Nesting 3
Giclée print
Nesting 2
mixed media on paper
Pylon lamp 3
Electricity pylon insulator and linen
GT art web home CLEARING textiles 2 3 darker

RECENT EXHIBITION

Clearing

NEW TEXTILE WORK BY GAIL TURPIN

MOTE 102, EDINBURGH
2 JUNE - 9 JUNE 2024

Something happens to us when we clear our parents’ house after they’ve gone. The responsibility of dismantling a life or lives, to be the person who says what stays and what goes, what is precious, what should be retained, loved and appreciated.

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GT art web home 2 blankets
GT art web home blanket 2 detail
GT art web home CLEARING textiles 2 4
 

WORK

A selection of prints and original works in mixed media.
GT art web home image contact
Turpin worked with whatever she had to hand—wood, fabric, paint—to recreate these foraged feathers. A process, she says, that was full of happy accidents from printing and sanding.
Alice Fisher


The Guardian / The Observer

ABOUT

A lifelong maker, I am also an artist and designer. My career in design has taken me to London and Amsterdam, but I’m now based in Scotland – where I make work in mixed media in my Edinburgh studio.
GTA web between 15 back room mote HI
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@seenbygail