William Thorburn’s practice has been based on an interest in a combination of the organic and synthetic. Images of exotic plants, anatomical imagery taken from medical textbooks, and of landscapes are merged with intense flat areas of colour depicting signs and vivid shapes. His work combines anatomical and architectural imagery with material sourced online to create layered works in which the organic and inorganic merge. Saturating canvases with bright, clean colours, forms emerge suggestive of limbs, internal organs, and plants intertwined in ambiguous combinations.
Born in 1983, Will Thorburn lives and works in London and Folkestone, UK. Having studied Critical Fine Art Practice at Brighton University, he completed his MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2016.
William Thorburn’s practice has been based on an interest in a combination of the organic and synthetic. Images of exotic plants, anatomical imagery taken from medical textbooks, and of landscapes are merged with intense flat areas of colour depicting signs and vivid shapes. His work combines anatomical and architectural imagery with material sourced online to create layered works in which the organic and inorganic merge. Saturating canvases with bright, clean colours, forms emerge suggestive of limbs, internal organs, and plants intertwined in ambiguous combinations.
Born in 1983, Will Thorburn lives and works in London and Folkestone, UK. Having studied Critical Fine Art Practice at Brighton University, he completed his MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2016.