January 4–February 8, 2020
Opening reception: Saturday, January 4, 6-8pm
Steve Turner is pleased to present The Garden of England, a solo sculpture exhibition by Jesse Pollock featuring oversized cider jugs and tools used in the historic fruit growing industry in Pollock’s native Kent, England. Made of steel that has been folded, welded and painted, the brightly painted objects are folky and fanciful with welded surface drawings that depict horses, starlings, scorpions, stars and horseshoes. The images allude to immigration and adaptation as well as to tradition and change. Jesse Pollock (b. 1993, Gillingham, Kent, England) earned a BA at Camberwell College of Arts, London (2015). He has had two two-person exhibitions with George Rouy, the first at Hannah Barry Gallery, London, (2018) and then at Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2019). His work has also been included in a group exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019); at Sunday Art Fair, London (2019) and at Art Dusseldorf (2019). The Garden of England is Pollock’s first solo exhibition in the United States. He lives and works in Kent, England.
