Archives – 2009
David Turner: Cross Section and Scale
Thursday 6th – Saturday 29th August 2009
David Turner’s Cross Section and Scale is architecture from the artist’s point of view, seen through the lens of violence in 1970’s Belfast. His drawings show buildings in what Turner describes as “physical cross section”.
“They are drawings of cross sections of buildings but not as an architect would present," says Turner. "They are drawings of physical cross sections that anyone would have seen in the early ‘70’s in Belfast City Centre. The fronts were blown off buildings and you could see what was inside due to the devastation. I wanted to use the word ‘scale’ to refer to the scale of the violence at the time – not the scale of the drawings.”
Turner’s work for this project was inspired by his time as artist-in-residence at the Queen’s University Belfast School of Architecture, from September 2008 – March 2009.
“I was very interested in how the students worked through their ideas and presented them for critiques”, he says. “I also became interested in the terms and words used to describe drawings, such as cross section, scale, elevation, and so on.”