Alex Turvey is a 26 year-old director, graphic designer and animator with an
incredible and recognizable aesthetic, which he describes as “surreal folk horror
with sequins”.
Recently gaining recongnition as one of 15 creatives who will define the future of
arts in Britain by the Independent. Alex Turvey is a director, designer and
illustrator with an eclectic oeuvre of projects ranging from music videos, fashion
films & commercials to illustrated charity cereal boxes. Having grown up by the sea
in Cornwall, he now lives by the river in London where he started his career at
Precursor, then co-founded the Norway-UK partnership Elefant Art and now runs his
own eponymous studio. Alex likes nothing better than textural landscapes,
anatomical drawings and glitter; and his surreal visions have been applied to work
for the likes of Shakira, SEAT, Dazed & Confused, Ford, Polydor Records, MTV,
Topshop, Budweiser, Nike & Sugar Puffs. Alex also recently gained recongnition as a
top young creative entrepreneur by Dazed, as well as being highlighted as a leading
the prestigious D&AD awards.
Fashion film featuring Daisy Lowe, for the Autumn/Winter 2010/11 collection
of Menswear label Percival.
Exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused and featured as part of onedotzero
and Dazed's Fashion in Film program at the BFI, Frankenfashion is being
screened alongside the works of Chris Cunningham, Solve Sundsbo & Saam Farahmand. In his contribution, Turvey takes inspiration from the mythical Dr Frankenstein
who took parts from different bodies to make a new being. Here, a macabre sequence
of events sees fashion follow suit, leading to a surreal and transformational climax.
I was invited by production company Blink Ink and director Noah Harris to
create three unique scenes which feature within the new Ford Fiesta commercial.
Having honed an obsession with all things glittery, I decided to take the creative
freedom and healthy budget of Ford’s brief to push my fixation to the next level.
The obvious choice was to build a four-foot rotating glitter heart and then
explode large volumes of glitter from a compressed air rig directly at a kissing
couple who had been painted matt black. My content is featured alongside the work of
modern day design luminaries such Rachel Thomas, Carl Burgess, Dan Tobin Smith and
Chrissie MacDonald.
Looking forward to see his next wondrous live action space world for the new
Shakira/Seat 'Good Stuff' commercial.
polaroids by Laura Clayton
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