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This exhibition examines William Turnbull’s formative years from 1946 to 1959, when he developed a language of elemental forms across painting and sculpture. Influenced by Surrealism, European modernism, and later Abstract Expressionism, he reduced figures, horses, and heads to essential shapes. Through textured surfaces and simplified structures, Turnbull treated artworks as physical objects that connect prehistoric imagery, modern abstraction, and the material presence of sculpture.