Bio

Garland Lam Turner is a visual artist that specializes in painting, illustration, amateur animation and experimental video editing. Her work is informed by the Asian-Canadian experience and its investigation of traditional Chinese culture and its impact on second generation Canadians, often exploring concepts of identity, memory, culture and personal story telling. Currently she resides in Vancouver, BC as a Montessori teacher and art educator.

Works

Garland's Quiet Steps

  • 2013
  • Garland Lam Turner

Inspired by the 8mm app, Garland's Quiet Steps is an instrumental music video of the artist's experience of living in Vancouver.

Garland's Quiet Steps

All Those Years They Were Here First

  • 2010
  • Garland Lam Turner

All Those Years They Were Here First is an animation about a heart break, longing and knowing when to say goodbye.

All Those Years They Were Here First

Singing with Teresa Teng

  • 2007
  • Garland Lam Turner

"Singing with Teresa Teng" is a Chinese karaoke video that has been re-shot with a camera on a computer screen. This method creates a degraded blinking, in which the singing or pronunciation of words varies according to the singers’ familiarity with the song. A father - daughter duet to the father's favourite singer.

Singing with Teresa Teng

Jut Gei

  • 2006
  • Garland Lam Turner

"Jut gei", meaning nephews in Cantonese, is a video of two small boys and their interaction with the webcam. Shots were slowed down to create a painterly effect.

Jut Gei

Documentary of My Father

  • 2004
  • Garland Lam Turner

This documentary of the artist's father is in Cantonese with English subtitles. The visual image is expressed by a technique called stop-motion painting where each stroke is recorded for 2 to 3 seconds. The footage is sped up to create a fluid painting motion. Documentary of My Father is about Lam's father before she knew him personally, before she was born.

Documentary of My Father

Morphing From Father

  • 2004
  • Garland Lam Turner

Morphing from Father is an experimental video using footage captured by a web cam.

Morphing From Father

Wontons

  • 2003
  • Garland Lam Turner

Wontons is a video that has dialogue centred on being mistaken for a different race. The non-translated dialogue, spoken in Cantonese, may be mysterious to viewers.

Wontons