Biography:
Noëlle Turner (b.1993) is a British visual artist, based in London, whose work explores states of interiority, meaning-making, and emotional tension under contemporary digital conditions. Her process begins with fluid soak-stain techniques on drenched canvas, where colour spreads organically before being interrupted by precise lines, layered collage, bleach, and screen-printed symbols. These gestures produce a tension between control and surrender, creation and erasure — a material logic that echoes her conceptual concerns.
Turner’s paintings shift between abstraction and figuration, often evoking alternate psychic landscapes. Drawing from mysticism, meditation, and diaristic reflection, her work traces the edge of consciousness — where dreams, desire, pain, and imagination converge. At times still and minimal, at others chaotic and layered, the surfaces remain emotionally coded and symbolically resonant.
Working from within what she describes as a “digital prism” — a world shaped by screens, acceleration, and disembodied attention — Turner’s practice resists the demand for clarity or resolution. Her paintings hold space for complexity, ambiguity, and inward survival amid the psychic strain of contemporary life. Rather than offering fixed meaning, they act as maps of ongoing enquiry — fractured, searching, and always becoming.
Noëlle Turner (b.1993) is a British visual artist, based in London, whose work explores states of interiority, meaning-making, and emotional tension under contemporary digital conditions. Her process begins with fluid soak-stain techniques on drenched canvas, where colour spreads organically before being interrupted by precise lines, layered collage, bleach, and screen-printed symbols. These gestures produce a tension between control and surrender, creation and erasure — a material logic that echoes her conceptual concerns.
Turner’s paintings shift between abstraction and figuration, often evoking alternate psychic landscapes. Drawing from mysticism, meditation, and diaristic reflection, her work traces the edge of consciousness — where dreams, desire, pain, and imagination converge. At times still and minimal, at others chaotic and layered, the surfaces remain emotionally coded and symbolically resonant.
Working from within what she describes as a “digital prism” — a world shaped by screens, acceleration, and disembodied attention — Turner’s practice resists the demand for clarity or resolution. Her paintings hold space for complexity, ambiguity, and inward survival amid the psychic strain of contemporary life. Rather than offering fixed meaning, they act as maps of ongoing enquiry — fractured, searching, and always becoming.
Noëlle Turner earned her BA in Fine Art from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2015, and her MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, 2024. Recent exhibitions and residencies include In Laminar, solo show, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery, 2024; Dumping Ground, Hypha HQ, co-curator, group exhibition, Summer 2024; Sim Residency, Iceland, 2023; New Breeders, group exhibition, Grölle Galerie, Wuppertal, Germany, 2023; 3331 Arts Chiyoda Residency, Tokyo, Japan, 2022; Ancient Vessels, APT Gallery, London, December 2022, co-curator, group exhibition.