Annely Juda Fine Art has announced representation of artist Nicola Turner, commencing with a major installation at Art Basel Unlimited in June 2025, followed by her first London solo exhibition in 2026.

Turner creates sculptures and site-responsive installations that explore fundamental dichotomies: life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion. Using “dead” materials such as horsehair and wool alongside found objects, her works touch upon the history and “memory” of materials, dissolving boundaries amid the interconnectedness of ecosystems.

With a background in set and costume design, Turner completed an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa University in 2019 and in 2023 founded FORM-ica, an independent collective of artists in her hometown of Bath. She gained attention in 2024 for her site-responsive installation The Meddling Fiend which interacted with the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Courtyard of the Royal Academy, London, for the duration of the Summer Exhibition.

Turner’s works possess an animalistic quality, with tentacle-like elements that weave around and interact with their surroundings, much like a plant reaching for sunlight. Re-purposed antique furniture legs, kitchen bowls and forks, binoculars and clamps become anthropomorphic feet, hands or eyes, giving her freestanding sculptures a precarious, animated presence. The works tend to be dark both literally and metaphorically. Encased in hand-sewn mesh, the materials - once part of living creatures – draw upon Turner’s own experience of loss, bereavement and medical intrusions. This lends her work a visceral, unsettling power, evoking both attraction and repulsion, and inviting new ways of seeing.

photo: Maxwell Attenborough