Dr Jeremy Turner
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr. Jeremy Turner joined the University of Chester in 2005 and has been Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art since 2007. He works across Fine Art disciplines with a particular focus on sculptural practice. He has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors with sculptural works held in private collections.
Teaching and Supervision
As Programme Leader in Fine Art, Dr. Jeremy Turner has responsibility for the delivery of all modules across the undergraduate programme. He teaches into a range of modules at all undergraduate levels of the Fine Art single and combined honours programmes and is a module leader in some cases. He has teaching experience at postgraduate level, namely the MA in Fine Art at the university and has, and remains a member of supervisory teams working with PhD students.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Jeremy Turner's research is predominantly practice based and sculptural in output. Interests that inform and underpin this practice include history and anecdote, memory, the phenomenology of materials and form and the construction of narrative and meaning. His practice based PhD, 'Sculpture, Technology & the Invention of Necessity' was successfully completed in 2001 at the University of Leeds. It considered the role of sculpture and the practice of making as a foil to the denudation of hands on industrial competences in favour of digital, technological and increasingly remote processes within which all are implicated. In a post-industrial landscape, the making of sculpture remains a bastion of individual activity involving material, process and tangible activity in real time and space.