Emre Özdinçer

Emre Özdinçer is a Turkish artist based in the south of England. His practice moves between drawing and object-making, guided by an ongoing exploration of perception, memory, and inner experience.

Through intensive charcoal drawings Özdinçer responds to landscapes that he walks, remembers, or carries within – referencing specific localities such as the ancient yew trees of Kingley Vale, the dunes of West Wittering, or the undulations of the South Downs. Rather than describing such sites, the drawings distil something of their felt presence, holding focus and blur, presence and absence in careful tension.

More recent work has focused on a sustained engagement with the sphere. Through graphite drawings and hand-carved forms in wood, stone and metal, Özdinçer returns to this continuous form as both subject and process. The act of drawing or carving a sphere becomes a meditative, repetitive gesture – a means of returning to centre, or seeking balance through making. Symmetrical in all directions and complete in itself, the sphere offers a sense of wholeness that is at once perceptual and psychological. Its continuity becomes a rehearsal of inwardness, where hand, eye, and attention come into alignment.

Özdinçer’s work is less concerned with representation than with attention. Each piece emerges through a slow, intuitive process shaped by the quiet rituals of making – an invitation to the viewer to pause and meet the work with similar attentiveness. If earlier drawings preserved traces of the external landscape, the spheres turn inward. Özdinçer’s works are not conclusions, but thresholds – spaces where perception softens and something sensed yet not fully understood begins to take form.