Biography:
Noëlle Turner (b.1993) is a British visual artist based in London whose work explores meaning-making, inner consciousness, and the fractured self under contemporary digital conditions. Using a soak-stain technique on drenched canvas, colour spreads into fluid abstractions. These flows are then disrupted: material is cut, collaged, and layered. Symbols and images are screenprinted; other passages are deliberately erased with bleach. Destruction and renewal are integral to her process, with precise geometric lines often interrupting the surface. At times still and minimal, at others chaotic and unresolved, the work is infused with mysticism, drawing on occult practices and experiences of meditation.
Turner’s paintings are reminiscent of landscapes, but they chart internal terrains. Spectral imagery shifts between abstraction and figuration, suggesting psychic space without fixed ground. Her practice draws from the cosmic, the existential, and the elemental – yet it also arises from the pressures of digital life. In a world of glowing screens and disembodied attention, her work speaks to the contemporary psyche: disoriented, saturated, but still reaching toward coherence. Rather than offering resolution or escape, these paintings remain inside the difficulty. They act as maps of ongoing inquiry — a quiet yearning, a refusal to collapse, a practice of staying inwardly intact.
Noëlle Turner (b.1993) is a British visual artist based in London whose work explores meaning-making, inner consciousness, and the fractured self under contemporary digital conditions. Using a soak-stain technique on drenched canvas, colour spreads into fluid abstractions. These flows are then disrupted: material is cut, collaged, and layered. Symbols and images are screenprinted; other passages are deliberately erased with bleach. Destruction and renewal are integral to her process, with precise geometric lines often interrupting the surface. At times still and minimal, at others chaotic and unresolved, the work is infused with mysticism, drawing on occult practices and experiences of meditation.
Turner’s paintings are reminiscent of landscapes, but they chart internal terrains. Spectral imagery shifts between abstraction and figuration, suggesting psychic space without fixed ground. Her practice draws from the cosmic, the existential, and the elemental – yet it also arises from the pressures of digital life. In a world of glowing screens and disembodied attention, her work speaks to the contemporary psyche: disoriented, saturated, but still reaching toward coherence. Rather than offering resolution or escape, these paintings remain inside the difficulty. They act as maps of ongoing inquiry — a quiet yearning, a refusal to collapse, a practice of staying inwardly intact.
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.