Hugh Turvey

Hugh Turvey (born 5 June 1971) is a British artist, photographer and experimentalist who works primarily with X-ray technology. His work fuses art and science, graphic design and pure photography. In September 2014, he was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of his work as an advocate for imaging innovation and its role in the advancement of science and understanding.

Career

Turvey’s in advance career was spent enthusiastic as an apprentice to photographer Gered Mankowitz, one of the UK’s leading rock photographers. During this get older he began experimenting with x-ray/shadow photography upon a commission to Make a ‘revealing’ image for an album cover, for which he sought advice from the head of radiology at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Realising the parallels along with x-ray and photography, Hugh began working upon a supplementary type of Rayogram, wherein the object’s shadow was not forlorn exterior, but as a consequence interior, thus depicting its inner structure and density. He defines these images as ‘Xograms’ and differentiates them from photograms by the frequency of the ‘light’ used to expose the ‘paper’.

Hugh’s feat attracted the concentration of the Science Photo Library, who encouraged him to develop an extensive series of coloured x-rays of nameless objects, which were eventually published during 1999 in the Observer’s LIFE magazine. The similar year, Credit Suisse commissioned Hugh to develop six ‘motion x-ray’ European TV commercials, which in the appearance of went on to win awards at the 1999 ITVA Festival in Köln, Germany.

In 2005 Hugh when Artemi Kyriacou were invited by www.britishcouncil.org/ukraine to be credited with Kiev and represent the UK at the “European Day” in Independence Square similar to their winning entries in the Novartis/Daily Telegraph Visions of Science photographic awards that year.

Following the ‘x-perimentalist’ exhibition at the Gallery@Oxo, Southbank, London in 2009, Turvey undertook a six-month residency at Yeovil District Hospital, working on a Wellcome Trust sponsored public engagement project entitled ‘inr-i’. He curated the resulting artwork to form a touring exhibition that has been showing in hospitals throughout the UK since.

In 2009, Hugh was next appointed surviving Artist In Residence at the British Institute of Radiology (BIR). One of his olden projects in the role was a collaboration taking into account the Department of Specialist Imaging at University College Hospital upon a series of artworks drawn from multi-sequence MRI scans of the prostate, which are used in the detection of small foci of prostate cancer.

In 2011, Turvey produced the X-ray imagery for the film Et Soudain, Tout Le Monde Me Manque (The Day I Saw Your Heart) which was directed by Jennifer Devoldère. Hugh makes a cameo as a gallery visitor in the firm scene which was shot at the Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris.

In November 2011 Hugh released the X is for X-Ray iPad app through Touch Press.

As skillfully as collaborations bearing in mind technology developers and endeavor film directors, Hugh has after that worked alongside with architects and interior designers, the 2012 refurbishment of the Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg being in the middle of his largest projects. The artist’s Flora series of Xograms are used as a key motif that runs throughout the building.

Hugh returned to the Gallery@Oxo considering a new solo exhibition, X-POSÉ: Material and Surface, in February 2014, which was reprised in the similar to month at Artopia Gallery in St. Katharine Docks, London. As an player represented by London Contemporary Art (LCA), Hugh’s Xogram accomplish has featured in a number of group art-fair exhibitions on the world. It has also been widely featured in national and international newspaper articles and magazines and is held in a number of private and public collections, including surviving displays in Sir Isaac’s Loft at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia and the BIR.

As an modern for x-ray, part of the artist’s residency role in imitation of the BIR is one of outreach. As such, Hugh is a regular public speaker at activities like the 2014 Edinburgh Science Festival, where he after that created a site-specific video installation.

Alongside his artistic practice, Hugh is a pioneering creative practitioner for enlarged healthcare environments. He has worked upon large-scale art installation projects in hospitals in Germany, UK and USA. He is currently allocation of a ‘communicative’ art research team at University College Hospital, London, which is creatively thinking not quite ways to improve long-suffering experience.