Katie Turnbull is a visual artist, born on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia) and is currently living in London.
Her work explores looping, repetition and cycles, both as formal strategies in animation and film, and as frameworks for understanding how we witness, remember, and reconstruct what we see. She is interested in the slippages between perception and memory, and how meaning is shaped not only by what is shown, but by how it is seen and re-seen over time.
Working across moving image, sculpture, and interactive forms, she treats animation as an expanded medium, a form that can hold temporal distortion and material transformation. Her process is both intuitive and research-driven, often beginning with collecting: sounds, footage, objects, and ephemeral moments. These fragments are recombined through cycles of material experimentation, often yielding unpredictable results.
Her practice engages the tensions between personal and collective memory, control and chance. Through time-based media and tactile forms, she creates open-ended encounters where meaning is not fixed, but felt, sensed, and remembered differently each time.
Katie's projects have been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals, including Roppongi Art Night (Japan), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Focal Point Gallery (UK), UNSW Galleries (AU), and the Jepson Center for the Arts (USA). Recent exhibitions include Filet Space (UK) and Ty Turner Penarth Gallery (UK). She has been commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts and Penrith Regional Gallery, and has undertaken residencies in Iceland, the Arctic Circle, Thailand and Australia.
Katie is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts London Studio Residency, the Arts Council England's Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant, the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. From 2021 to 2023, she undertook the Conditions Studio Programme (UK), a critical development programme for artists. Alongside her artistic practice, she works as an Artist facilitator and Psychodynamic Art Psychotherapist in the charity sector.
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