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Arabella Turner

SELECTED WORKS
Arabella Turner (UK/NL) is a filmmaker and writer whose practice employs video, sound, and text to explore the narrative potential of the beyond human. Her work challenges the grand narrative approach of history and contemporary visions of the future by combining perspectives of the human and non-human such as landscapes, the animal world and technologies.


EDUCATION
2022-2024, MFAD (summa cum lauda), Lens Based Media, Piet Zwart Institute
2014-2017, BA, Media & English, Goldsmiths University

EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
2025, FilmDakLeaks, Art Rotterdam, Studio Lange Hillegweg 235, Rotterdam
2024, Their Singing Shifts the Soil, Au Brana Centre, Pauilhac
2024, CURRENTLY,CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, V2/Ubik, Rotterdam
2023, Unfinished Film Festival, Venray
2023, Research Labs, EYE, Amsterdam
2022, Age of Many Posts, Barbican Centre, London
2022, Festival of Making, Barbican Centre, London
2021, Online Picture Show for ICP Intensive in Visual Storytelling, CAMERA Torino, online
2020, It All Comes Down, Barbican Centre, London
2019, EarWax Presents, Guest Projects, London

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023, Flying Ideas, WORM, Rotterdam
2023, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2022, Barbican Centre, London 
2019, National Poetry Library (Southbank Centre), London
2019, Camden’s People Theatre, London
2018, EarWax Presents, Young Vic Theatre
2018, Sister Magazine Annual Launch, London
2018, Pillow Talk, London
2018, Barbican Centre, London

RESIDENCIES
2024, The Au Brana Centre, Gers, France
2023, GreenScreen Residency, WORM, Rotterdam
2020, Barbican Young Visual Artist Programme

GRANTS, COMMISSIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2025, Mobility Grant, Goethe Institut and Culture Moves Europe
2022, Grada van Beek – Donner,  education scholarship
2021, The Macquarie Group Scholarship for online study
2019-2020, Beyond the Body (Group Project), Arts Council, Research and Development Grant

WORKSHOPS AND SHORT COURSES
2021 -2022, Bootcamp in Games Design & Unity, University of West England
2021, ICP (New York)-Camera (Torino) Intensive Course in Visual Storytelling (Documentary)
2017, Berlin Summer School (DIY Art-film and performance)

PUBLICATIONS
2024, The Piet, PZI Archipelago, The Cliff, The Cave and The Studymaker: A Glossary, 2024
2023, The Piet, PZI Archipelago, WHILST (short poetry collection)
2022, The Piet, PZI Archipelago, I have despair and paper (a.k.a Love and Paper)

REVIEWS/PRESS
2023, EYE on Art, Research Lab
2022, Barbican, Age of Many Posts Weekender
2022, Barbican, Shadowbody
2021, Barbican Press Room, Barbican Launches Digital Group Exhibition It All Comes Down
2021, City Matters, Barbican Launches Digital Group Exhibition It All Comes Down
2021, Lucy Writes, It All Comes Down at the Barbican
2019, Peep Publication
2018, Sister Magazine, The Sound Issue

Reference available upon request.



Image taken during screening of Bury, Imprint, Tunnel (2024).