I was born in Izmir in 1983. After completing my undergraduate education in Public Administration at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, I moved to Istanbul in 2005. I took technical courses from Selen Özus at the Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio in 2015. I took conceptual courses at the same studio from the instructors Selen Özus and Burcu Büyükünal until 2019. It is an invaluable source of inspiration for me that every single moment of our lives and all that we come across is open to interpretation and to re-creation in different forms. As for the contemporary jewellery, it is an area where I have the freedom of working regarding materials, subjects, techniques and interpretation.
HARD AS COTTON
''In a huge uncertainty that coincident with my 38th age, an effort to find a remedy for the distress that increases from day to day, avoiding to get lost in waiting that like a big black hole.
I had to wait. When I was waiting… touched the colors, just played a game.
There was nothing better that I could do to heal my soul.
That’s the story''.
WORKS​
The Long And The Short Of It
Remember
Hard as Cotton
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Puppet Show
Isolated Bride
I Am just Thinking
Deep Inside Of Me
Despite
Deniz Turan who has been in several exhibitions and organisations was awarded Portojoia Award at Collectiva Meeting International Exhibition in 2019.
She still keep on creating pieces of contemporary jewellery, objects and collages in her atelier.
“It is an invaluable source of inspiration for me that every single moment of our lives and all that we come across is open to interpretation and to re-creation in different forms.
As for the contemporary jewellery, it is a field where I have the freedom of working regarding materials, subjects, techniques and interpretation.
For me, creating process is uniting the feelings and thoughts, asking questions and seeking what behind the visible.So, the most meaningful result of creating in this field is that any outcome is “valuable” as it has a “soul”, regardless of the material value of the material used.
From this point of view, my tendency to produce works that would reveal my own point of view against the current perceptions of the concepts “value” and “valuable” which are always open to debate turns this creation process into a “stance” for me.”