Gary Turner

Gary Turner participates in Project Ability’s Aspire programme and completed a Project Ability residency in August 2010.

Turner makes large masks from brightly coloured fake fur as a feature of veiled performance and storytelling. Turner has an eye for a particular fictional and mythic content seen in manga animation and comic books and exhibits a fascination with adventures and magic. The masks exist as props for which he uses to perform scenarios and portray invented characters. Without an audience, Turner is silent and focused in his practice but pulling on a mask he becomes a character, the poised performer, entertainer and trickster. Turner is currently working towards the construction of a full suit to perform in his furry theatre.