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News and Exhibitions
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 Ulla received The Freedom of The City of London in 2008.
SPACE SERIES - My Cosmos
 The last few years I have been travelling extensively - mostly in the U.S., also Europe as well as in the far North, places like Iceland, Norway, the Orkney Islands, the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides where the Isle of Skye has become one of my absolute favourites. Being Scandinavian, my heart is always close to those latitudes.
I have been following my dream and I am now busy painting my Space Series: Cosmos 2011.
Although I love our planet Earth I am sometimes finding it increasingly small and therefore I am now expanding my mind and my work into space which has been a bit of an obsession of mine ever since my childhood!
As always, I do not paint more than 12 paintings a year - and I have no plans of a major exhibition of my latest work at the moment. It is ongoing.
Painting is my passion and my life.
THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE - The Fusion of Art with Science
4th - 22nd June 2007 Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD
Ulla's Seven Daughters of Eve Series - which incorporates human DNA in the original oil paintings - is based on the best-selling book of the same name by the Oxford Professor of Human Genetics Bryan Sykes. This is a completely unique collection created specifically to portrait the seven goddesses.
Giclee Prints of The Seven Daughters of Eve Series, signed by Ulla, are now available through
The Jennifer Gerard Gallery
34 Stert Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX14 3JP. All enquiries Tel. +44(0)1235 527508 or email info@jennifergerardgallery.com
and
Oxford Ancestors Ltd
PO Box 288, Kidlington, Oxfordshire. OX5 1WG. UK. Tel. +44(0)1865 374425.
www.oxfordancestors.com
Further Information:
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Space Orgasm (Copyrights Ulla)
Portrait of Velda - one of the Seven Daughters of Eve (Copyrights Ulla 2007)
Ulla applying DNA to portrait of Jasmine
Prof. Sykes drills into the teeth of 100,000 years old Neanderthal jaw in order to recover its DNA
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A
DECADE OF DREAMS
September - October - November 2005
Ulla's
latest exhibition of a collection of romantic paintings spanning
the last decade.
The Mayfair Club, Holmes Place
By appointment only
Further Information:
Ulla
Tel/Fax 020 77239143
E-mail: UllaArt@aol.com
PR
Wendy
Tel: 020 7928 1752
Holmes Place, Mayfair
Hereford House
North Row, London W1
Nearest tube: Marble Arch
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The Golden Swanlake
New Hope, South Africa
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DREAM
WOMAN
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 November 2003
Luke & A Gallery of Modern Art
4 Pollen Street, London W1
Open Daily from 10:30am - 6:30pm
Further Information:
Ulla
Tel/Fax 020 77239143
E-mail: UllaArt@aol.com
Positive Profile
Jonathan Rush
Tel: 020 7489 2028
Out of Office Tel: 07798 812 253
Luke & A Gallery
Alexander Barabanov
Tel: 020 7629 6622
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Woman with flamed coloured hair, Oil on Canvas,
40"x30"
You can also view some of Ulla's original paintings at:
The
Wilton Group
26 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair
London W1K 4QN
Contact Valika for appointment on
Tel: 020 7355 3525
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ENDLESS
HORIZONS - NEW WORK
Date: 11 - 22 November 2002
Venue:
The International Maritime Organization Headquarter
4 Albert Embankment, London SE1
Opening Hours:
this exhibition is open to the public BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
For viewing appointment please call:
Ulla
Tel/Fax 020 77239143
E-mail: UllaArt@aol.com
Olga Hadjilambri, OPR
Tel. 020 88863424
E-mail: info@opr.org.uk
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Blue Infinity, Acryllic on canvas, 39"x
32"
Nordic Moon.Reflection, Oil on canvas,
39" x32"
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ROME,
ITALY
Palazzo Barberini (Sala della Lupa)
Via Quattro Fontane, Roma
8th April - 14th April 2OO2
Open daily 1O-12.3O - 16.3O-19.3O
Sunday 1O.OO-15.3O
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THE
SCENE
2 Marshall Street (next to Carnaby Street)
London W1F 9BB
8th May - lOth May 2OO2
Open daily lO a.m. - 8 p.m.
For further information please
e-mail: nicki@spirogroup.net
Tel: +44 (O)2O 7534543O |
Ulla merged with her painting via projection
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Press Reviews
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BBC News published 2007/06/04
Daughters of Eve in DNA paintings
An artist has created
portraits of the "Seven
Daughters of Eve" using
paint containing
reconstructed ancient DNA.
Danish artist Ulla
Plougmand-Turner mixed
sequences of ancient DNA,
produced in an Oxford
laboratory, into paint to
create the images.
The pictures represent seven women, from whom it is
thought the majority of Europeans can trace their DNA
line.
Described as "a fusion of science and art", the paintings
went on exhibition on Monday at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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DAILY TELEGRAPH. Published 2007/05/18
A DNA portrait of European history
Art will blend with genetics in a forthcoming exhibition, reports Roger Highfield
A remarkable slice of history is captured in this painting, which contains DNA that is representative of the seven women who are thought to be the ancestors of almost all Europeans.
The Danish painter Ulla Plougmand-Turner has embedded representative snippets of reconstructed ancient DNA from the women within a series of paintings, entitled the Seven Daughters of Eve, which will go on public show for the first time in a few weeks.
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Oxford Times. Weekend. Published 2007/06/01
The Seven Daughters of Eve is trailed as a fusion of art with science. If they have succeeded in their aims then this exhibition is imbued with the spirit of Leonardo.
The scientific concept behind the show if that all of European descent can trace our ancestry to seven women. Eve herself came out of Africa!
Some years ago, a friend of Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at Oxford University, asked him if it was possible to obtain DNA from ancient bones rather like Michael Crichton imagined in Jurassic Park. He replied: "No," but went on to prove himself wrong by being the first scientist to extract DNA from archaeological human remains.
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I think my roots are showing
It isn’t only Crime Scene
Investigators who are
interested in DNA, more
and more people are
having it tested to
determine their ancestral
origins. LLyynnnnee MMoorrttiimmeerr
discovers her French
connection
Have you ever wondered
where your ancient
forebears first emerged
from their caves? Oxford
Ancestors, founded by
Oxford University
Professor of human genetics Bryan
Sykes, is a company that traces your
genetic origins through the maternal
line by testing your DNA.
It’s a simple exercise. All you do is
brush a cell sample from the inside
of your cheek, pop it into an
envelope, send it off and wait.
I sent off my precious DNA in a
state of great excitement – would I
turn out to be the missing link?
What I rather hoped to find was
that my ancestors came over with
William the Conqueror in 1066...
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IN
PRAISE OF THE FEMALE NUDE: WEALTHY ART LOVERS TAKE ON COGNOSCENTI
WITH NEW BID TO SIGNAL RETURN TO RUBENS
If you love the sensual beauty of RUbens and detests Lucian Freud
for making a pregnant Jerry Hall look like a blubbery lump then
you are not alone.
Traditionalists distressed by the alleged distortion of the female
form in modern art are hitting back by launching the Society for
the Appreciation of the Female Nude (SAFN) to encourage artists
who depict beautiful female nudes, whether in a classical or modern
style.
The founders, a group of wealthy art lovers, believe that contemporary
artists who follow a tradition stretching from Botticelli to the
Victorians Leighton and Millais are being sidelined by Britain's
national galleries.
They fear that an aesthetic of ugliness is favoured by the new
arts establishment - even though conventional attractive nudes are
always much in demand at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and
are a staple for commercial dealers...
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AWARD
PROMOTES 'BEAUTIFUL' NUDES
A society championing 'beautiful' female nudes is handing out
its inaugural award on Monday. The Society for the Appreciation
of the Female Nude (SAFN) wants to encourage artists who paint traditional
nudes rather than "ugly" figures, it said. The society
will hand out their first Venus Award to artist Ulla Plougmand-Turner
for her work Woman With Flame Coloured Hair.
A society spokesman said it was a reaction to contemporary nudes.
Jonathan Rush said the society was a group of "art lovers who
are bored with looking at geometric or ugly nudes in galleries".
It will present the prize to Danish artist Plougmand-Turner at the
Luke & A Gallery in Mayfair in central London on Monday night.
'Ghastly and grotesque'
"Modern artists who want to paint traditional nudes do not
seem to be able to show their work," he said. The fashion for
painting such nudes had started, he said, with Pablo Picasso's Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907, which Mr Rush said had caused a furore
when it was painted. The painting shows four nude prostitutes with
geometric faces and bodies that Mr Rush said looked "ghastly
and grotesque". "Since then modern artists have been painting
nudes without much reflection of reality." ...
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TIL
KAMP MOT STYGGE NAKENBILDER
Mandag denne uka ble den aller første Venus Award, en kunstpris
med et noe spesielt formål, utdelt til den danskfødte
kunstneren Ulla Plougmand-Turner.
Prisen ble overrakt av markien av Bath. Det oppleves som en stor
ære å være den første kunstneren som får
denne prisen, sier Ulla Plougmand-Turner til Dagbladet.no. Det er
foreningen «The Society for the Appreciation of the Female
Nude» (SAFN) som står bak prisen. Den skal være
en inspirasjon for kunstnere som maler «vakre» nakne
kvinnekropper. SAFN ønsker å oppmuntre til maling av
tradisjonelle aktbilder, fremfor det de kaller «stygge»
figurer. Foreningen reagerer på aktbilder i samtidskunsten...
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A
LONGLEAT SUPPER BUT NO EXTRA
MURAL
After becoming a father for the third time last autumn at the age
of 67, as I revealed exclusively, the happily eccentric Marquess
of Bath, who has a number of 'wifelets' at his Longleat home, set
tongues wagging again the other evening when he laid on supper at
the 9,000-acre Wiltshire estate for Danish-born affist, Ulla Turner.
Six-foot tall and with a model figure, divorcee Ulla even looks
like wifelet number 18. But the only thing unitng the pair is their
love of vibrant paintings. She tells me: 'There was no hanky-panky.
when I visited him. I was invited with a mutual friend and he seemed
very interested in my paintings. "Besides I'm a one-man | woman."
Bath, who prefers not to identify the mother of his baby daughter
- he has anheir, Viscount Weymount, 25, and Oxford graduate daughter
Lady Lenka Thynn, 30, by Hungarian born actress Anna Gaelhas covered
the walls of a private staircase with exotic murals of his conquests
(69 at the last count). Meanwhile Ulla tells me Bath will be at
the February 22 private view of her exhibition A Vision Of Romance
at the Atrium Gallery in Whiteley's, West London. 'He's an intelligent
and interesting man,' she says.
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FEMALE
BODY
Her feminine bodies are curvaceous with rounded forms viewed from
every angle and Ulla's interpretation of womanhood verges on the
abstract - she never paints the faces of her creations, concentrating
more on the human form and its inner dimensions. Ulla's paintings
will be exhibited from 4th-16t August 1999 at the Atriun' Gallery
at Whiteley's, Lotrdon W2. For more infornation call +44-(0)171-723
9143.
SOAP STARS turned popstars; actors turned directors; sports stars
turned actors; Ronald Reagan, for heaven's sake These days it seems
like being ~ celebrated in one field isn t enough l_ any more.There's
even an acronym for the Model-Turned-Actress: ULLA. But in the case
of Danish painter Ulla Turner, MTA stands for Model Turned-Artist.
Unlike those MTAs, who pooh-pooh their former profession and beg
to be 'taken seriously, the six-foot blonde has drawn on her past
experrience as a clothes horse to celebrate the beauty of the female
anatomy in her oils, and nature in her land, sea and snow scapes.
But it is the naked women who really stand out, as naked women tend
to. After several solo exhibitions in both London and Los Angeles
in the past year alone, Ulla's artistic career is looking a lot
healthier than Cindy Crawford's acting ambitions.
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THE
"FENG SHUI" OF ULLA'S PAINTINGS
Danish-born Ulla has made her presence felt in the art world on
both sides of the Atlantic with the vibrancy and spontaneous exuberance
of her paintings. After a successful modelling career, where she
travelled the world extensively absorbing a multitude of impressions,
of people, cultures, colours and scenery, she took up painting and
has never looked back since. Ulla's paintings have soul. They cannot
be explained, they must be experienced. Her talent is refreshingly
natural, as indeed is the painter herself, and her work has been
described as 'effervescent, vibrant and intense'.
This is no exaggeration. Every time you look, you will discover
something fresh, even unexpected, that each painting strives to
offer. The artist's unique style is a jubilant celebration of life,
expressed in vibrant red, yellow and green colours applied mostly
with bold brush strokes, indicating a dominance of yang energy.
That Ulla calls her 'beloved Danish blues', blue being her favourite
colour which she uses extensively in her serene Scandinavian pieces.
Her favourite painting is a harmonious blend of blue shades entitled
Moonfalls. The painting radiates a feeling of warmth and hope, despite
the conventional interpretation of the colour blue being a cold
colour. The various shades of blue, a yin colour, blend with the
very yang colours of her dreamlike landscapes which are inspired
by the wonders of nature - volcanoes, mountains, ice and fire.
She also produces a positive feeling of optimism for the future
with her use of sunshine yellow and bursts of white. Another recurring
theme in her work is the beauty of the female body Her feminine
bodies are curvaceous with rounded forms viewed from every angle
and Ulla's interpretation of womanhood verges on the abstract -
she never paints the faces of her creations, concentrating more
on the human form and its inner dimensions. ...
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ULLA
DONATES PAINTING
THE artist Ulla recently donated one of her most spiritual art works
- Wandering of Souls - to raise money for the Royal London Hospital
Maxillo-facial Research Fund, headed by Professor Paul Bradley.
In her speech during the well attended fund-raising event, she attributed
her inspiration to the most important values in her own life; 'Peace
and Freedom, Love and Hope." She said: "This positive
and symbolical painting has no feeling of fin-de-siecle gloom; on
the contcary, I believe it is a triumphant celebration of the next
millenniuml By the movement upwards and forward. of 'inner light',
This symbolises my hope for a better life and a better world for
all of us."
Ulla has also recently shown over 40 of her original oils and
photographic images in an exhibition entitled 'Dreamwomen and Dreamscapes'
at the Atrium Gallery in Bayswater. Reflecting her two recurring
themes, the exhibition was a great success, and contributed to the
recognition of Ulla as an international artist of considerable talent.
Ulla has now set her sights on the Millennium. Her last two paintings
with such a theme, 'Millennium Flame of Light' and 'Millennium Celebration
of Life' formed part of her prize - winning exhibition at the same
Gallery earlier in the year. The Millennium Commission need not
look any further should more art projects be added to the funding
for big celebrations.
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