About
Meredith’s practice focuses on the world of things as the form-creating basis of culture. She is interested in making and material, and the experiential and temporal register of forms. Her practice engages various disciplines and approaches including making, writing, curating, collaboration and inter-generational production. Her projects and exhibitions explore her ongoing interest in combining approaches to excess, embellishment, adornment and décor. Her artworks engage diverse scales, art historical traditions and genres – and manifest in connections between the body and: sculpture, images, decorative objects and jewellery. She also explores desire and pleasure in art making and art experiences. As an artist she is committed to a inclusive approach to art form and genre, and practices and processes, for diverse ages and experience.
Meredith is Director of Alta Forma a curated project space for artists working in expanded object and jewellery based practices.
Dr Meredith Turnbull is a Naarm / Melbourne based artist, curator and writer. She has exhibited and curated exhibitions nationally and internationally, developed major projects in Australia for Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, the Centre for Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Victoria and Heide Museum of Modern Art. Her work is featured in the collections of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, Monash University Museum of Art and Heide Museum of Modern Art. Meredith is an alumna of Monash University she completed her PhD in the field of sculpture and spatial practice in 2016 and was a recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award for her research. Meredith also holds a Bachelor of Arts and Honours majoring in Art History from La Trobe University, 2000 and a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT University, 2005. She also completed photographic studies at PIC (Photographic Imaging Centre), Melbourne in 1996.
Meredith has over 10 years experience in education, lecturing in Art History at RMIT University specialising in Contemporary Art and C20th Craft and Design, and in Art History and Theory and Fine Art at Monash University. She was Coordinator of the Bachelor of Fine Art First Year Program at Monash University (2019-2020 and 2022). Meredith worked previously as the Gallery Manager of Monash University Museum of Art and the Gallery Manager/Curator of the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts (now Fiona and Sydney Myer Gallery), University of Melbourne, and a Project Manger and Assistant to the Artist Director at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art where she was also co-editor of ACCAMag. She was co-editor (with Shelley McSpedden) of un Magazine issue 10.1 and a member of the magazine’s Editorial Committee from 2018-2021. Meredith’s curated projects include Material Exchange, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, 2017-2018, Form and Flex (2015) and Rock Solid (2011), Pieces of Eight, Melbourne, A Condition of Change, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, 2011; Risk Potential, Die Ecke, Santiago, 2010, and Once More with Feeling (2009), A Time Like This (2008) and Zonal Marx (2007) at VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2009.
Meredith is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.