Meredith Turnbull, SHE TURNS, 20 September - 15 October, 2017 at c3, Abbotsford Convent, Naarm/Melbourne

SHE TURNS (Rebecca Thomas and Meredith Turnbull) was part of Material Exchange featuring Isadora Vaughan and Kate Hill / Rebecca Thomas and Meredith Turnbull / Ruth O’Leary and Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, curated by Meredith Turnbull and c3 Projects

Material Exchange explores an expanded notion of mentorship, examining how influences and ideas flow in a reciprocal manner between artists. These relations flow up and across, rather than simply via the conventional path of mentor to mentee. Presented as three discrete exhibitions between August to November, the project draws out and further expands on the points of convergence and departure evident in the practices of the participating artists, including: political and material approaches to making; conceptual and thematic research as both the material of and impetus for the creation of artworks; an engagement with concepts such as environment through matter, place and ecologies; and a critique and examination of systems from within social relations, art history and politics. Material Exchange was part of c3’s larger 2017 Professional Development and Mentorship program. This program includes over 12 projects and 25 featured artists.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. The City of Yarra through the Annual Grants program and the Abbotsford Convent Foundation.

Meredith Turnbull, Flowers and Mirrors, 2017
archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle photo rag paper

Meredith Turnbull, Paper Portraits, glass, paper, particleboard, acrylic paint, aluminium, 2017

Meredith Turnbull, Material/Fragments, 2017 with material contributions from Fiona Abicare, Kay Abude, Damiano Bertoli, Terri Bird, Ross Coulter, Sarah crowEST, Andrea Eckersley, Debris Facility Pty Ltd, Christopher L G Hill, Jenny Hector, John Meade, Mascha Moje, Spiros Panigirakis, Sean Peoples, Lisa Radford, Masato Takasaka, Salote Tawale, Sarah Ujmaia, Manon van Kouswijk, Behn Ja Woods.

Image credit: Vivian Cooper Smith