Biography

Josie Rae Turnbull (b. London) is a multi disciplinary artist and art facilitator, currently based in London. 

She completed her MA in Fine Art and Science at Central Saint Martins in 2022, following a number of years living in Ho Chi Minh City. Her MA work across textiles, sculpture, printmaking and lens-based media was impelled by research into absurd, fabulist ‘case studies’ of animal protagonists revealing human failings. Throwaway consumer tat is refashioned through bricolage and material glitches. The life cycles of various industries, and their uncanny fall-outs, are reconstituted through a visual language led by artificial colour relationships and material glitches. She is fascinated by a feature common to aesthetics of microscopic imaging, and the concept of the hyperreal - that of using the 'absolute fake' to better see the 'real' thing.


Residencies 


Transcultural Collaboration - Shared Campus residency, August-December 2022, Zurich, Singapore, Yogyakarta.

Making Waves Scientist in Residence Program - February 2022 Hybrid online + The Grow Lab, UAL

Artist in residence at School360, London - September 2021 - July 2022

Arts & Crafts Matters in a Digital Society - June 2021, Online 

Tong Lau Space - Hong Kong, June 2019 

Mhor Farr - Scotland, May 2016


Selected Exhibitions 

SOLO + DUO

  • Commissioned artist by Shape Arts, for 'Open All Hours' - 198 Gallery, London, January 2024
  • 'Saline Shock!' - Orleans House Gallery, London, 29/9 - 26/11
  • Parroting - PhotoHastings Festival - November 2021
  • Tong Lau Space - Hong Kong, June 2019 
  • Hawks with Hooves like Hooves - toong in partnership with Noirfoto, HCMC, July 2018  

GROUP

  • Meet Clash Lose Find - Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta November
  •  2022"TOẢ IV" | "THE FOLIAGE IV"-VCCA Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, September-December 2022
  • Boing - Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase, London, June 2022
  • Transference TV - Online - https://transference.tv/  live 19th April 2021
  • 1 thực tại xoè ra 2 cái cánh / 1 reality spreads 2 wings - trongkhung.bar, HCMC, Vietnam, April 2021
  • See You Tomorrow - Online Open Studio, January - February 2021        
  •   Solo Show - Kunstkraftwerk - Leipzig Digital Art Centre September 2020                                                                      
  • Rục Rà Rục Dịch - Various locations, HCMC, Hanoi, Nha Trang - Vietnam, Vientiene - Laos, May -August 2020 
  •  All Animals are equal 2 - HCMC, November 2019
  •  Perspectivas de Interferencia - Sincentro, Bogota, Colombia, November - December 2018 
  • Beyond the Body Orlando 3 Launch - The Horse Hospital, London, October 2018 
  • All animals are created equal - A.farm, HCMC, July 2018 
  • Embassy Moving Image Showcase – EMBASSY gallery, Edinburgh, July 2018 
  • Simply Beaming – HOPE, Engarru, Hokkaido + Maruseppu Art Residency, June 2018 
  • Hidden Door Festival – Edinburgh, May - June 2018 
  • Depaysement – Nous Tous, Los Angeles, May 2018 
  • Radiophonic – The Cause, London, April 2018 
  • High On Time The Voice Box Heaved – Artsadmin, Toynbee Courtroom, London March 2018 
  • DAISIES – The Poetry Club, Glasgow 2016
  • Orlando #1 Launch – The Book Club, London 2016 
  • Transit #3 – And Everything Crooked Will Become Straight, Glasgow Short Film Festival - 2016
  •  Salon-athon – EMBASSY gallery, Edinburgh 2016 
  • Mhor Farr, So good – Good Press, Glasgow 2016 
  • Bleachfield – Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 2015 
  • London Feminist Film Festival – The Arch Gallery, London 2014
  •  Draw In – Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 2013 

AWARDS


  • Recipient of Arts Council Develop Your Creative Practice grant, maximum award. 
  • Shortlisted for UAL Sculpture/Clifford Chance Award, 2023
  • Outgoing UAL student Travel Award, 2022
  • Shortlisted for Crystal Ruth Bell award 'Light and Sight', 2019

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

  • 'When I Rot' - Music video for Wesley Gonzalez, 2023
  • Are You Before - Record Label and NTS radio show artwork, 2022        
  •  Faboo - Artist film for queer fashion and club collective, 2021                                                   
  • Photographic series of experimental artist portraits for Poppy Nash, 2021-2022   
  •  Moving image commission (stage visuals for music performance) Wesley Gonzalez live at The Rio Cinema - London, June 2021                               
  •  daisuke and friends HCMC - San Art, HCMC, December 2019 - extended version of short film, adapted as visual projections for live music and dance performances. 
  •  XX Voyages, moving image commission for Hanoi Queer Takeover event for Vietnam Gay Pride - Hanoi, September 2019
  • Ymixalloo album launch, ft. Ran Cap Duoi - moving image commission - stage visuals for live music performances -The Observatory, HCMC, April  2019.  
  • Sandeep Madhavan - projected stage visuals for live music set at Zigzagger, HCMC, 2019
  • Rhythm Machine – club installation, projected visuals, The Art School, Glasgow, 2016 




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