William Turnbull

William Turnbull (11 January 1922 – 15 November 2012) was a Scottish artist.

Early life William Turnbull was born in 1922 in Dundee, to John Turnbull and Anne Turnbull. Fascinated by art from an early age, Turnbull initially learned to draw by copying illustrations from magazines.

Early career When his father lost his job as a shipyard engineer during the Great Depression, a splinter group within the ICA which became an important forum for discussion and debate. The Independent Group has been cited as a progenitor of Pop Art.

Turnbull was also included in New Aspects Of British Sculpture, an exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 1952 Venice Biennale which was curated by Richard Morphet. Seeing all his work placed together like this in a single exhibition caused Turnbull to rethink the direction of his work and he began to move away from the steel and more modular sculptures he had been creating and began a return to the more molded, textured work of his early career.

Turnbull subsequently exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, and had retrospectives at both the Serpentine