"Where Abstraction Lands" with Julia Winters and Rikki Turner

Join us for an interactive exchange with invited artist Julia Winters and Rikki Turner as part of her ongoing exhibition Emergent Forms
About this Event

Venue: INSTINC Space, 39 Keppel Rd, #03-10 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065

Exhibition Duration: 27 to 30 August 2026 | Wed-Fri, 1PM-7PM. Sat - Sun, 1PM-6PM

Opening Reception: 26 August 2026 (Wed.), 5:30PM–8:30PM

"Where Abstraction Lands" with Julia Winters: 29 August 2026 (Sat.), 7:30PM–8:30PM

Artist Studio Tour: 30 August 2026 (Sun.), 2PM–6PM

Join us for an interactive exchange with invited artist Julia Winters and Rikki Turner as part of her ongoing exhibition Emergent Forms at INSTINC Space. 

Unfolding as part artist talk, part collaborative painting session, this programme offers a casual yet intimate setting where the artists discuss their respective practices, and invite the audience to reflect and explore alongside them.

Emergent Forms brings together a body of abstract works made through staining, pooling, layering, repetition and erasure—and through waiting, watching, interfering, then sometimes leaving things alone. Created in Singapore, the exhibition looks at the point where emotional experience, fragile materials and environmental conditions begin to blur into one another.

Singapore is not simply the setting for the work. Its humidity, heat, architecture and cultivated greenery enter the process. Nature here is lush but organised, climbing towers, filling atriums and growing within systems of control. In this environment, vulnerability becomes more than an emotional state. It is physical, environmental and shared.

Rikki Turner invites artist Julia Winters to participate in the public programme for her current solo exhibition. The two artists met during INSTINC’s Art Picnic, a live exhibition that also took the form of a gathering, inviting the public to come sit and immerse themselves in the art and artists at work. This public programme draws from their initial meeting, taking the form of a conversational gathering for the artists and audience alike to participate and experience.

About the Artists

Rikki Turner (b. 1986, UK) is an abstract painter based in Singapore. Her practice explores how organic forms emerge through processes of staining, pooling, layering and repetition, creating images that move between cellular structures, imagined ecologies and unfamiliar landscapes.

Julia Winter is a Dutch artist in Singapore, with a long international career and multitude of group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Her work is a unique and individualistic visual vocabulary, creating a poetic and imaginative body of work. Winter’s art blends and juxtaposes differences, such as male-female, past-present, and guilt-innocence.

About Artist

Rikki Turner (b. 1986, UK) is an abstract painter based in Singapore. Her practice explores how organic forms emerge through processes of staining, pooling, layering and repetition, creating images that move between cellular structures, imagined ecologies and unfamiliar landscapes.

She received a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art from the University of Westminster in 2009 and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2015. She has exhibited in Singapore, London and Berlin, most recently at OLAL Gallery, Singapore. Previous exhibitions include Perpetual Days at No Format Gallery (2020), Holding One's Breath at Sid Motion Gallery (2018), 16 Artists 16 Days at The Koppel Project Hive (2017), You and Me at Display Gallery (2016), Species of Spaces and Other Pieces at Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts (2015), Five Floors at The Century Club (2015), Responsive Eye at London Gallery West (2011), and Nothing Gold Can Stay II at Galerie Meinblau, Berlin (2010).

About INSTINC Space

Founded in 2004 by artist Yeo Shih Yun, INSTINC is a leading artist-run institution based in Singapore. With a distinguished presence in the arts ecosystem, INSTINC diligently sustains the growth of contemporary art through exhibitions, residency programs and curations. Their esteemed Artist-in-Residence program has cultivated invaluable regional and international networks since 2009. INSTINC is celebrated for producing immersive, large-scale exhibitions that encompass installation, new media, performance, painting and sculpture, showcasing the diverse range of artistic expressions.

Notable collaborations include partnerships with renowned brands such as Volvo and Guinness, further demonstrating INSTINC's commitment to fostering cross-disciplinary exchanges. Moreover, INSTINC takes immense pride in organising the highly anticipated INSTINC D:Art Festival 2022, generously supported by UOB Bank and the NAC start fund.

INSTINC continues to foster creative individuals and collective practitioners by establishing a platform for cross-disciplinary exchanges with their relocation in Tanjong Pagar Distripark. With expertise in exhibition curation, commissioned works and brand alliances, INSTINC endeavours as a vital presence in the cultivation of contemporary art.