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Arabella Turner (UK/NL) makes films, audio-visual installations and text works.

Bringing together writing, sound, image and staging, and drawing on place-based research, she builds narrative works that move across multiple time periods and set animals, ecological systems and technologies alongside the human as characters or witnesses.

EDUCATION

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

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EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS

2025, GRAW, Noranje Studio
2025, Reverse Affinities, HLN, Friseland
2025, FilmDakLeaks, Art Rotterdam & South Explorer, Rotterdam
2024, Their Singing Shifts the Soil, Au Brana Centre, Paulhiac
2024, CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam
2023, Research Labs, EYE, Amsterdam
2022, Age of Many Posts, Barbican Centre, London
2022, Festival of Making, Barbican Centre, London

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SELECTED SCREENING

2025, The Orange Tree Project, Rotterdam
2025, Noranje Studio, Rotterdam
2025, Het Lage Noorden, Friseland
2024, Art Rotterdam, Studio Lange Hillegweg 235, Rotterdam
2023, Flying Ideas, WORM, Rotterdam 
2023, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2022, Barbican Centre, London 

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RESIDENCIES

2026, Winter Sessions, V2 _Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam
2025, Zuhause Residentie, Arnhem, Netherlands (upcoming)
2024, Attrition Residency, Au Brana Centre (supported by Culture Moves Europe)
2023, GreenScreen Residency, WORM, Rotterdam
2023, Unfinished Film Festival Residency, Venray 

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GRANTS, COMMISSIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2025, Gementee Rotterdam, Subsidies for Arts and Culture
2025,  CBK Rotterdam, Praktijkbijdrage
2024, Goethe Institut and Culture Moves Europe, Mobility Grant
2022, Grada van Beek – Donner

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